Every Christian looks forward to hearing those words, “Well done, good and faithful servant” (Matthew 25:21). But how many of us are intentionally pursuing “well done” faithfulness in every area of life?
The planner you hold in your hands is designed to help you be strategic and intentional in how you steward your life—to map out your waypoints to well done.
Working Backwards from “Well Done”
The planner you hold in your hands is designed around the philosophy that the best way to pursue faithfulness is to work backwards from an eternal perspective.
If, our goal is to hear “well done” we need to begin defining what that looks like in each domain of our lives. That’s why we begin with your “Well Done” Statement.
Then, you will construct a list of 5-Year Aspirations based on that statement. These are your long-term goals that, if completed, would bring you closer to how you described well done.
Next, you’ll do a Self-Evaluation. In this step, you’ll grade yourself, 1–5, on how well your current life trajectory aligns with your “Well Done” Statement and 5-Year Aspirations. You’re asking, “Is what I’m doing now, going to get me there?”
You’ll take the results of that evaluation to help you brainstorm some potential Goals for the quarter. Typically, you’ll want to create goals in the domains in which you have the lowest grades. We recommend you choose just one big goal for the quarter, though there are other included goal pages for your side quests.
Next, you’ll find an Inbox for your miscellaneous tasks. This is just a easy place to capture those little one-off things you need to do, that don’t necessarily belong to a goal. Then during your weekly review you can migrate them to a specific week or day.
Then, you’ll block out a Weekly Schedule for yourself. The most important thing to do here is map out exactly when you’ll work on your goals.
The rest of the planner is dedicated to managing your day-to-day while you track the progress on your goals. There are monthly Calendars. And each week there’s a Weekly Review spread that helps you review the previous week’s progress, and plan your priorities for the week to come.
In your Daily Pages you can keep track of the 5 key POWER Mornings habits, Prayer, Organize, Word, Exercise, and Reading. And time box your priorities for the day. We’ve also left ample room for notes at the end of each week, use these for sermon notes, or anything else you need to jot down during the week.
At the end of the quarter, when you complete the planner, there’s a Quarterly Review spread designed to give you clarity on how things went and get started planning for the next quarter.
Waypoints Goal Planner (Spiral Bound)
