The Real Jerry Dugan: My 5-Year Goals/Plan

What are your 5-year goals? Where do you want to be 5 years from now, spiritually, physically, professionally, financially, and family? Are those goals written down and broken down into action steps?

Here is what I have planned for myself, and I'm posting this for my own accountability, but also as an example (a model to use, but you'll need your own goals.)

View my Updated Plan: January 2014.

The First Step: Figuring out your WHY in life. What is God calling you to do with your life? Take some time to pray, reflect, and think about this. This is what I have for me:

"I believe that God is calling me to own business systems and products that are nearly self-sustaining AND income producing with very minimal weekly effort after start up. The purpose of this is to free up time for Olivia and I to serve in marriage/family ministry, to teach our children & grandchildren a biblical way of life that break the cycle of hardship both of our families have endured for generations. Life change for our family and for others."

Now we are ready for the Second Step: WHAT are we going to do with our lives for the next 5 to 10 years. Here are my 5-year goals.

Professionally

Have 3 titles written, completed, and published (2 books and a baseball teaching video)

Ministry/Spiritual

Be a vital link in Corpus Christi for FamilyLife's "Strategy 365" campaign promoting valuable resources to married couples to build a solid, fulfilling marriage.
Have 1,000 people attending Weekend to Remember.
Have a thriving HomeTeams Ministry at Bay Area Fellowship with over 200 HomeTeams in Corpus Christi alone (not counting the Multi-Site Campuses), and having a support/communication structure in place to keep this ministry succeeding.

Physically

32" waist, washboard abs, able to do 10 pullups, weigh 160 lbs or less.
Hike entire distance of the Padre Island National Seashore, 60 miles one-way. Water, water, every where, but not a drop to drink.
Begin hiking the Appalachian Trail. Lifetime goal is to through-hike the entire thing (a 1-year trip).

Financially

Debt free (consumer debt, collections debt, everything except the mortgage...that comes later).
Complete the first 4 Baby Steps from Dave Ramsey's system: $1,000 emergency fund, debt snowball, 6 months living expenses saved up, investing 15% of income into wealth building (real estate investments & stock market).

Travel

Disney World (7-days or more) - Family
Disney Cruise (5-days or more) - Family
Train ride San Antonio to Chicago - Family
New York City - with Liv
California Coast trip - family
Carlsbad Caverns (San Antonio) - Family
Pretty much all the state parks in Texas - Me & Family if they're up for it.

Now What?

I further broke these down into milestones, working out 3-year milestones that lead to my goals, then 2-year milestones, 1-year, and 6-months. All of these milestones need to be stepping stones or completions of these 5-year goals.

After you have identified WHAT, it is time to write out the HOW. This is really where you break it down. I only went 6 months out for this one because it gets really detailed.

Since it is very detailed, here is just a couple of examples from the entire 6-month plan (based on my 6-month milestones):

FamilyLife

Attend leadership summit October 28-31, 2010 in Little Rock, AR.
Firm up the local conference team by the end of October 2010.
Kick off meeting and training for the team in November 2010.
50 Group Coordinators for Weekend to Remember. Friends inviting friends to the getaway.
500 attendees to the Corpus Christi WTR by March 18-20, 2011.
Hand out fliers at 3 public venues and La Palmera (and other stores).
Meet & build relationships with 10 key churches/pastors in Corpus Christi. FamilyLife as a year-round resource.
Attend a Weekend to Remember with Olivia for ourselves (April-July 2011).

My First Book

Write for 1 hour every day.
Type book from notes on days when there is a writer's block. This will help fill details and prepare manuscript at the same time.
Rough draft completed by end of November 2010. Proofread by 3 to 4 key people by end of December 2010.
Final manuscript ready by January 31, 2011.
Identify key publishers.
Determine start up costs and save up money for them.
Get published.

Every three to four days, I write out the top 4 priorities I must do "Today", "Tomorrow", and "The Day After That". These priorities have to be linked to my 6-month action plan.

Here is what "Today" looks like at the time I wrote this blog post:

Write book for 1 hour
Research request requirements for Guideposts (a Christian publisher)
Write October Item of Value for real estate clients (this falls under my Disney World goals. I need $2500 to take my family on a road trip to Disney World for 7 days and the money will come from a real estate closing.)
Call 2 Weekend to Remember conference team members for feedback to take to FamilyLife leadership summit.

You can learn more about how to do this by getting a copy of I Dare You to Change by Bil Cornelius and also reading The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss.

You could make a commitment to start writing out your own goals and taking a proactive role in shaping the life you want to live, or you can be like most people (including myself before I wrote out my goals) and simply draw your target, your bulls-eye, around wherever you've wound up in life and say, "Yup, that's where I meant to wind up."

For some of you reading this, it is time to stop drawing your bulls-eyes around your misfires in life and start taking real aim and action towards the targets you really want in life.

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Friday, October 1, 2010

My 5-Year Goals/Plan

What are your 5-year goals? Where do you want to be 5 years from now, spiritually, physically, professionally, financially, and family? Are those goals written down and broken down into action steps?

Here is what I have planned for myself, and I'm posting this for my own accountability, but also as an example (a model to use, but you'll need your own goals.)

View my Updated Plan: January 2014.

The First Step: Figuring out your WHY in life. What is God calling you to do with your life? Take some time to pray, reflect, and think about this. This is what I have for me:

Now we are ready for the Second Step: WHAT are we going to do with our lives for the next 5 to 10 years. Here are my 5-year goals.

Professionally

Have 3 titles written, completed, and published (2 books and a baseball teaching video)

Ministry/Spiritual

Be a vital link in Corpus Christi for FamilyLife's "Strategy 365" campaign promoting valuable resources to married couples to build a solid, fulfilling marriage.

Have 1,000 people attending Weekend to Remember.

Have a thriving HomeTeams Ministry at Bay Area Fellowship with over 200 HomeTeams in Corpus Christi alone (not counting the Multi-Site Campuses), and having a support/communication structure in place to keep this ministry succeeding.

Physically

32" waist, washboard abs, able to do 10 pullups, weigh 160 lbs or less.

Hike entire distance of the Padre Island National Seashore, 60 miles one-way. Water, water, every where, but not a drop to drink.

Begin hiking the Appalachian Trail. Lifetime goal is to through-hike the entire thing (a 1-year trip).

Financially

Debt free (consumer debt, collections debt, everything except the mortgage...that comes later).

Complete the first 4 Baby Steps from Dave Ramsey's system: $1,000 emergency fund, debt snowball, 6 months living expenses saved up, investing 15% of income into wealth building (real estate investments & stock market).

Travel

Disney World (7-days or more) - Family

Disney Cruise (5-days or more) - Family

Train ride San Antonio to Chicago - Family

New York City - with Liv

California Coast trip - family

Carlsbad Caverns (San Antonio) - Family

Pretty much all the state parks in Texas - Me & Family if they're up for it.

Now What?

I further broke these down into milestones, working out 3-year milestones that lead to my goals, then 2-year milestones, 1-year, and 6-months. All of these milestones need to be stepping stones or completions of these 5-year goals.

After you have identified WHAT, it is time to write out the HOW. This is really where you break it down. I only went 6 months out for this one because it gets really detailed.

Since it is very detailed, here is just a couple of examples from the entire 6-month plan (based on my 6-month milestones):

FamilyLife

Attend leadership summit October 28-31, 2010 in Little Rock, AR.

Firm up the local conference team by the end of October 2010.

Kick off meeting and training for the team in November 2010.

50 Group Coordinators for Weekend to Remember. Friends inviting friends to the getaway.

500 attendees to the Corpus Christi WTR by March 18-20, 2011.

Hand out fliers at 3 public venues and La Palmera (and other stores).

Meet & build relationships with 10 key churches/pastors in Corpus Christi. FamilyLife as a year-round resource.

Attend a Weekend to Remember with Olivia for ourselves (April-July 2011).

My First Book

Write for 1 hour every day.

Type book from notes on days when there is a writer's block. This will help fill details and prepare manuscript at the same time.

Rough draft completed by end of November 2010. Proofread by 3 to 4 key people by end of December 2010.

Final manuscript ready by January 31, 2011.

Identify key publishers.

Determine start up costs and save up money for them.

Get published.

Every three to four days, I write out the top 4 priorities I must do "Today", "Tomorrow", and "The Day After That". These priorities have to be linked to my 6-month action plan.

Here is what "Today" looks like at the time I wrote this blog post:

Write book for 1 hour

Research request requirements for Guideposts (a Christian publisher)

Write October Item of Value for real estate clients (this falls under my Disney World goals. I need $2500 to take my family on a road trip to Disney World for 7 days and the money will come from a real estate closing.)

Call 2 Weekend to Remember conference team members for feedback to take to FamilyLife leadership summit.

You can learn more about how to do this by getting a copy of I Dare You to Change by Bil Cornelius and also reading The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss.

For some of you reading this, it is time to stop drawing your bulls-eyes around your misfires in life and start taking real aim and action towards the targets you really want in life.

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