What My LifePlan Did For Me
One of the easiest things for me to “sell” at HAYAH is a LifePlan, because I was “selling” them years before I was licensed to facilitate them.
Ask any of my friends or colleagues and they’ll tell you.
Immediately upon completing mine in 2017, I started telling everyone I knew – especially those in seasons of transition, discovery, or questioning – that they NEEDED a LifePlan, and as a result, many got LifePlans and began telling everyone they knew how transformative the experience was.
Here’s the weird, crazy, interesting thing about a LifePlan…
YOU are the expert on YOU.
So, YOU bring all the information.
YOU already possess it.
YOU already know it.
Because YOU are the expert on YOU.
But the facilitator has the PROCESS.
The tools, questions, exercises, and practices
designed to discover, reveal, and unearth
the YOU that YOU have either
forgotten,
misplaced,
misunderstood,
or never had the privilege of fully meeting.
And the PROCESS has a way of helping
YOU see YOU in a way that YOU really like
in a way that YOU can get excited about,
because when YOU start to understand YOU
YOU are positioned to experience
YOUR greatest satisfaction
while making
YOUR greatest contribution
to the world!
When I walked into my facilitator’s office to do my LifePlan, I was the unquestionable authority on all things Jay.
I knew the history that had shaped me.
I knew the experiences I’d enjoyed and the ones I’d hated.
I knew what caused me pain and what gave me joy.
I knew the people who’d shaped me and the things they’d whispered – intentionally and unintentionally, verbally and nonverbally – in my ears through the years.
I knew my greatest accomplishments and my greatest failures.
I knew what I was good at and what I avoided because I wasn’t.
I knew what and who I cared about.
I knew how I thought and what I thought about.
I could keep listing things
I knew about me,
but you get the idea…
I
knew
a lot
about
me.
But I didn’t
really, truly know
where or how
I fit in the world.
I didn’t know
what my unique Life Purpose was…
why God put ME on the planet.
If you’d asked me to explain my values,
I would’ve listed a lot of things
like integrity, authenticity, and all the other buzz words,
but I didn’t have a clear handle on what
the irrefutable, non-negotiable, foundational truths
that dictated how I lived, thought, and related
to the world around me
were.
If you’d asked me to tell you about my talents,
I would’ve told you a bunch of things I’m good at
or how I’d had success in certain arenas,
but I couldn’t articulate
what my unique, life-giving talents are
and how they shape what I do
and what fills me and others with life.
If you’d asked me why I switched jobs so often
and why moving from state to state came so easily to me,
I would’ve probably talked about
how I get bored with things staying the same
or said I needed a new challenge;
but I couldn’t have told you about
how I was constantly tripping the fuse
on my internal wiring
and allowing myself to end up in jobs
that didn’t fit the wavelength
my brain is designed to thrive at.
But the
LifePlan
changed
all that.
The LifePlan revealed what has been true about me my entire adult life.
It uncovered:
My Life-Giving Talents
My Heart
My Thinking Wavelengths
My Internal Wiring
My Core Values
My Replenishment Cycle
My Life Purpose
And from there, it helped me identify:
My Life Vision
My Life Strategy
My Vital Signs
(the things I need to invest in to stay or get healthy)
My Areas of Risk
(the things, thoughts, and people that can derail me)
My Life Initiatives
(the next right step in each area of my life)
And seeing myself with this level of clarity allowed me to live a healthier, more satisfying life that expanded my contribution and increased my impact.
IN MY WORK
I was able to unpack these things with my boss, and that led to me moving into a new role within the organization…a role I loved and thrived in. And I’m confident the reason I thrived in that new role was because (now that I knew who I was) I was able to serve differently, lead differently, assemble my team differently, and so on. I knew when and where to assert myself and when and where to back off and allow someone else to step in with their unique, life-giving talents.
IN MY FAMILY
My wife (who has also done a LifePlan) and I were able to establish healthy rhythms of rest and replenishment. We were able to use the various filters the LifePlan process taught us to make decisions that helped us stay true to who we are and consequently increased our joy, satisfaction, and passion. We were able to understand what makes us tick individually and as a couple, which enhanced virtually every area of our relationship and communication.
IN MY COMMUNITY
The discovery of my Core Values, my Life-Giving Talents, and my Heart combined with clarity around how they’re best integrated in my life showed me where and how to make my greatest contribution. It helped me serve the causes I care about with greater enthusiasm and freed me from the self-induced guilt of not helping everyone everywhere.
IN MY PERSONAL LIFE
I now knew what filled me up and brought me life, and I learned it was okay to be selfish in these areas so I had the energy to be selfless in all the others. I felt complete and whole. I felt calmer and more at peace. I had less need to strive, accomplish, and achieve. I felt like I was finally able to be the person God uniquely wired and designed me to be.
And knowing and experiencing all these things not only allowed us to enjoy a really great season in our life…
It
Helped
Us
Navigate
One
Of
The
Toughest.
When we were faced with one of life’s toughest decisions at the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020, it was my LifePlan that gave us the clarity, the guardrails, the filters, and the confidence to step out of something that we loved, but had grown beyond, and into something that aligns perfectly with my Life Purpose and Core Values while maximizing my Life-Giving Talents and Heart for humanity.
I will never
– even if I stop facilitating LifePlans –
stop “selling” LifePlans.
The impact
on my wife and me
has been too profound
too transformative
too good
to stop sharing it
with the world.
So, I’d love to help YOU
discover the YOU
that YOU’ve
forgotten,
misplaced,
misunderstood,
or never had the privilege of fully meeting.
I’d love to walk beside YOU
And facilitate YOUR LifePlan.
And then watch YOU
Fully live YOUR Life Purpose.
For more information
about LifePlans,
visit my website
or schedule a