Actions to Change Your Life
Learn and Take these Actions to Change Your Life.
- Here online in this website, free of charge, or
- In the Course Workbook Know-How to Change-Your Life at Amazon for about $5, or
- In-Person in a class if there is one in your area.
These are actions to
- Build your relationships, job, career, attitude, hope and faith.
- Discover your purpose in life and take it in a whole new direction.
- Strengthen yourself spiritually.
The course and guidelines are free.
Jesus’ Greatest Commandment and Great Commission are to Go, Serve, Love, Teach, Baptize and Make Disciples. Strengthen your values and develop skills to apply them. Gain the great joy of clarifying and responding to God’s purpose for your life.
You can be a Participant or you can Volunteer to help someone else.
Be a Participant
You have about 30 Actions to choose from. Start now. Request ANY help you need from a volunteer Encourager, Coach, Specialist or Christian Mentor.
Or Volunteer to Help Someone
Volunteer to help someone else take Actions that will change their life, and perhaps yours as well.
Actions to Change Your Life
The Actions SHOWN BELOW to change your life WILL magnify four major abilities you already have
- Grow in Wisdom
- Expand Your Stature and Skills
- Grow in Favor with GOD
- Gain Favor with Man
And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. Luke 2:52 NIV
ALMOST EVERY ACTION LISTED BELOW HAS A LINK TO A PAGE WITH GUIDANCE TO TAKE THAT ACTION. SELECT ANY ACTION. be sure to request any help you need.
Grow in wisdom
… gain understanding and develop my career
- Do any of the actions below to change my life. Each action in this wisdom group builds a foundation for other actions that follow.
- Watch a 51 minute video by Grow with Google called Navigate a career change with confidence. This is a good overview for a number of the career action guides that follow.
- Find additional kinds of work I would enjoy doing. Learn what each requires. Plan my steps to become qualified.
- Choose my career objective that matches my purpose in life.
- Create my resume which will get me invited for interviews. (pp. 39-40)
- Write a cover letter to send my resume. Some employers require both. (to be developed) (pp. 75-76)
- Put my profile on LinkedIn where employers will see my background and potential. (p. 41)
DO INTERVIEWS AND GET THE JOB I WANT
- Do an interview warm up designed by Google. “Practice key questions, get insights about your answers.”
- Afer that, do a practice mock interview where a volunteer who is an experienced recruiter will give me an interview and also give suggestions on my resume and job objective.
- In addition, I’ll schedule some Informational Interviews with someone doing the kind of work I’d like to do and tell me what it’s really like. (p. 54)
- Now I’m ready to plan and conduct my job search.
- I’ll prepare for and get job interviews which will lead to the job I want. (98-106)
- To get the full benefit of a job, I’ll develop my Personal Budget so I can tell my money where it should go instead of my money telling me.
- I will also Budget my time to make the best use of my 168 hours each week.
- And overall, I’ll put all that I’ve learned into my Action Plan to achieve my purpose in life.
Encourage someone else to take these Actions to Change Your Life.
Grow in stature (ability)
… Expand my career skills
- Do these ability actions together with with the wisdom actions because they reinforce each other.
- Analyze my personal SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) to help me choose the actions that will enable me to grow.
- Describe my Accomplishments and be sure to mention them when I present my Personal Strengths, Interests and Motivators.
- Set Goals that will motivate me. And learn how to learn.
- Do Personal Planning so I’ll know the most important things to do to use my strengths and interests to achieve my goals.
- Develop my two-minute speech to expand my relationships and get hired. Practice giving my speech and get feedback. (pp. 73-74)
- Learn what my work and ministry are likely to contribute to my growth in stature.
- Recover from addiction. How to overcome alcoholism, narcotics and other addictions.
Be accountable so that when there’s an issue, you will See It, Own It, Solve It, and Do It instead of playing The Blame Game.
Encourage someone else to take these Actions to Change Your Life.
Grow in favor with God
… GAIN spiritual strengthening
- Do these actions to strengthen and apply the Biblical values you already have. Graduates say the spiritual strengthening helped them the most.
- See Guidelines for Disciples of Jesus Christ which has key commands from the Bible.
- Understand better Who Am I?, how God created me in his own image.
- Also, understand better Who Is God?, so I can be strengthened spiritually.
- Gain a new Attitude which will steer my actions.
- Strengthen my Biblical values, taken from the most accurate history from the ancient world.
- Learn how to Understand God’s Love and be able to grow in favor with God.
- Understand Spiritual Authority and know whom I should obey.
- Operate with absolute Integrity in everything I do.
- Discover and share my personal Vision and Purpose in my life. Bring all my actions together in my Career Action Plan. Express My Mission in Life. Consider a call to an opportunity to mentor. Do all for God’s glory.
- Recognize five phases that many people pass through becoming Christian.
- Share my values with a Christian mentor and/or pastor.
- View one of the most successful altar calls to Become a Christian.
- Choose as my higher authority the One who is “the way, the truth and the life.” Make a commitment to be saved if that interests me. (to be developed)
- Learn how a Christian accepts the Holy Spirit and becomes a disciple.
Encourage someone else to take these Actions to Change Your Life.
Grow in favor with man
… enhance my relationships
- Do these actions to change my life and gain greater joy working with other people.
- Ask for help from a tutor for the computer skills I need to do all of these actions.
- Chat with a career coach, specialist or Christian mentor on my overall progress.
- Understand how to continually strengthen my Career Skills.
- Develop the Relationships I already have and expand my Network.
- Use best practices in my job interviews.
- Share with a volunteer career coach the steps I’m taking to prepare for and do job interviews.
- Use proven ways to Resolve Conflict and Restore Relationships.
- Learn how the best managers manage. Help my manager to be one. Choose one to work for. Learn how to become one.
- Be a change agent. Serve “the least of these.”
Encourage someone else to take one of the Actions to Change Your Life.
In what way is this ministry helpful to you or not? What would improve it? Please comment or email below.
What’s my next step?
SELECT ANY ACTION, FROM THE FOUR GROUPS ABOVE, OR FROM THE LISTS OF BIBLICAL VALUES AND CAREER SKILLS BELOW.
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