Life Calling- Ch. 13-16 Flashcards

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Moral excellence.

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Virtue

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Defines the fundamental purpose of your existence, succinctly describing why you exist and what you are meant to do.

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Mission

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Existing conditions or surroundings.

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Circumstances

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Depicts a long-term view of the way your world will look in the future if you are successful in carrying out your mission.

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Vision

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Cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force.

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Draw

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Describes the strategy that culminates in you actually fulfilling your mission.

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Action

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To make clear and distinct.

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Articulate

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See in one’s mind something of beauty, charm, merit, or importance.

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Dream

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What one believes to have relative worth, merit, or importance.

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Values

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10
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Mental image representing something in a graphic sense.

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Picture

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A system of principles used for guidance in practical affairs.

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Philosophy

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12
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Purpose towards which an endeavor is directed.

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Goal

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13
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Any question or matter involving danger, doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.

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Problem

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A job, assignment, chore, or act of work to be carried out.

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Task

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A situation with a good chance or prospect for advancement or success.

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Opportunity

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The ability to arouse an animating, quickening, exalting influence.

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Inspiration

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Taking action to bring about change in your everyday situation by mobilizing resources around you.

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Personal Leadership

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18
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A compelling desire for some type of achievement or distinction.

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Ambition

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19
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Taking action that brings about change in one’s area of influence by mobilizing others to accomplish a shared vision.

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Informal Personal Leadership

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The ability to see in one’s mind something that is not real in the immediate setting.

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Imagination

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When an individual believes their life and behavior is primarily ruled by the decisions and actions of other people or outside circumstances.

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External Sense of Victimization

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A plan, method, or series of actions for obtaining a specific goal or result.

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Strategy

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23
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When an individual believes that under the guidance of God in their life and bahvior is governed by their personal decisions and actions.

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Internal Sense of Responsibility

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24
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A line of thought or action leading from on epoint of reference to another.

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Direction

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A president, general, CEO of a corporation, pastor or principal of a school are examples of what?
Formal Personal Leadership
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What are the six (6) concepts in the Great Commssion that guide our personal mission and set the context for our overall life calling.
1. ) Go 2. ) Make Disciples 3. ) Baptize 4. ) Teach 5. ) Have all authority 6. ) Christ is with you
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What are the four (4) key elements that stand out as components in the working definition of leadership provided in the text?
Vision Action Mobilization Change
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What are the five (5) qualities that help to produce informal positional leadership?
``` Creditibility Inspiration Persuasion Empathy Partnership ```
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What are the five (5) qualities that help to produce formal positional leadership?
``` Serving Maturity Positional Envisioning Investing ```
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What are the three (3) ways a formal leader can position themselves in relation to those they lead?
Above Ahead Alongside
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What are the four (4) ways a leader can show that investing in those they lead is a priority?
Spend time with them Provide adequate resources Provide access to information Share
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What are the five (5) qualities that help to produce personal leadership?
``` Principles Conviciton Initiative Insight Trailblazing ```
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What are the four (4) steps that will take you from vision to action in realizng your life calling?
Establish direction Set SMART goals Develop a strategy Take action
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What is the order in which an individual develops their leadership skills?
Personal, Informal Position, Formal Position
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Individuals display this quality when they focus on equality and mutual respect rather than dominance and subordination.
Partnership
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This quality is built upon the principles, convictions, and insights that are developed in personal leadership.
Creditibility
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Individuals displaying this quality have seen grownth in their emotional strengths and can be further developed and enhanced if a person seeks it and practices it.
Empathy
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Individuals displaying this quality have demonstrated behaviors in their own life that evokes others to aspire to follow them.
Inspiration
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What was used as exercise at the end of Ch. 13 for an individual to determine how effective their personal leadership is?
Initiative Integrity Servanthood
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This is the intentional and regular practice of being able to ask others to perform a task because they know you are willing to do it yourself.
Modeling
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Ths is the mindset in a leader that places the needs of those led before one's own self-interest.
Serving
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When a formal leader leads from this position they are cautioned about lulling their followers into an unhealthy dependence.
Ahead
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When a formal leader leads from this position, they are cautioned about their followers finding difficulty in determinging who is actually responsible for the follow through of any given project.
Alongside
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When a formal leader leads from this position, they are cautioned about using fear as a motivatior resulting in compliance rather than creativity and growth.
Ahead
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Leaders in this position often use the fear-tactic of "losing one's job" or "position" to motivate compliance rather than growth.
Above
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Leaders in this position promote individual development, increase appreciation of diversity, and results in a sense of self-worth in those they lead.
Ahead
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In formal positional leadership, the text recommends that the leader positions themselves above those he leads __% of the time.
5%
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Most of the great inventions of the world came about through people with this quality due to their consistent challenges of the status quo with new possibilities and concepts.
Insight
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People who exhibit the quality of being fearless and taking the risks that are neccssary to reach a better place.
Trailblazing
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People who display this quaility are not concerned about popularity or manipulation when takeing action to bring about change.
Principles
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People who display this quality believe that they can make a difference.p
Initiative? Insight? Trailblazing? Principles? he didnt circle an answer for this question
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People who display this quality have the capacity to discern the hidden nature of situations and genrate solutions to perplexing challenges.
Intiative
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People who display this quality have an attitude that arises primarily from an internal sense of responsibility.
Initiative
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The ingredient of allowing the voices of your spirit, soul, and heart to speak as loud as your mind and body.
Inspiration
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The ingrdient of guiding your dreams toward your own images rather than those of others.
Independece
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The ingridient of developing a life-changing vision through the formation of a conscious idea or mental image of something you have never before wholly thought of in reality.
Imagination
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Describes the strategy that culminates in you actually fulfilling what you set out to do in life.
Action
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What are the three desires of our heart that is fulfilled upon knowing our Life Calling?
Meaning Significance Hope
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What is the primary reason individuals stop dreaming or having hope in their dreams?
They are afraid of disappointment
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In this role, the leader provides resources for empowering those led to accomplish a shared vision.
Dream-maker
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In this role, the leader imagines a better future, avoids boundaries, and allows creativity to run free.
Dreamer
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In this role, the leader helps those led to catch and endorse the same vision, as well as expand and enhance the vision.
Dream-caster
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The quality of imagining and articulating exciting future possibilities.
Envisioning
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The reason that Narcissus died was due to :
Desperation