Hello, hello family. Hope you guys are doing awesome. Just about lost my little set up
here. I'm going to take us for a journey. Going to go on an adventure. We're going to
talk about getting lost. So I thought why don't we go for a little adventure today.
First of all we'll start out at the fire pit. This is our pretty awesome fire pit. I actually
think this is the best fire pit in the world. We have a mean set up here. Hi Renita. So
check this out for awesome gatherings. Big bonfire in there. Primo. And then the outlook.
This is what, I'm at the church property and that's the outlook there. The mountains, they
keep the mountains. You can see the lake from up here and then got the river just over here.
So come for a little adventure with me as I talk to you. I want to share today about
getting lost. Now we are at the stage of the journey where we are talking about the review.
We are talking about the review. That means that we're at template number 7. The very
last template in the Systems for Success templates. And I think that this is possibly the most
important template. I'm going to share with you why as we go on our little journey and
I share a story with you about being lost. So if we go back in time about 16 years ago,
I was in the Kaimanawa Ranges with a group of friends and we were on this 5 day tramp
and I think we were day 2 which is the biggest day. Day 2 is a big day and so on day 2 we
were on our way to Boyd, to the Boyd Lodge. And I'd actually been there before on a tramp
previously so we knew where the lodge was. We're on our way there and we were, we didn't
have a track for a good part of this trip. We were just walking through big expansive
wilderness area in the Kaimanawa Ranges and our plan was to cut through the valley and
we knew that when we cut through the valley we had to walk across the track. It was part
of the process of cutting to the other side of the valley, a track ran through the middle
of the valley so we knew, boom, any moment now we're going to hit that track and then
smooth sailings from there straight up to the hut. But after being walking down this
valley for a long time we realised something is seriously wrong. We were looking at the
map thinking man we haven't hit this track yet. We can see by the map that we're not
too far, not too far away from where we are hoping to be, where we need to be but we are
not, we're not getting really any closer and we're not finding this track and we knew
man we should have seen this track by now but we just go on and on and after a while
we started realising man we are seriously in the wrong place. Terence good to see you
my man. We're like wow we are seriously, somehow we've seriously gone off track. We didn't
know where, we didn't know how but it started getting worse, it started getting close to
dark. I had about six people on the trip. Hey look at this little fella. See look at
this little bird. Little bird's just a little sparrow. Hey buddy, how are ya? Just learning
to fly. Look at you, you have an awesome life mate. Look at that, that's pretty cool. Look
at that, learning to fly like us. Learning to fly, love that. Beautiful little wilderness
bit of wildlife moment there. So we realised man we are seriously off track, it's starting
to get dark. We started to make some navigational adjustments and the next thing we know we
ended up in a swamp and we ended up in a pretty serious swamp. We're walking along and there's
these holes, people just falling into these holes. I fell, we've got big packs on, I fell
into a hole up to my chest just boom just into a hole and people are getting injuries
it's like oh man this is not a good feeling, not a nice feeling. Everyone's like oh my
gosh it's nearly dark. We are probably going to have to stay the night in the swamp that
we were in and people's morales are just diving low.
I was at the point of pretty close to giving up and I said right I'm gonna
take one guy we'll leave our packs with the group we'll climb up this hill and
if we don't find it at that point then we're gonna have to make camp in the
swamp so we shot off up this hill it's right on dark like it's getting dark as
we go up there we're losing the light and I got to the point climbing up this
hill we'd been at it have been hours looking for our destination to give you
an idea we've probably been walking about 11 hours that day maybe longer
might have been even longer than 11 hours that we've been walking that day
with this group and by the time we got close to the top of this hill I'd
actually come to the point it's happened it hasn't happened many times in my life
but I lost hope I actually lost hope it was gone as I oh we are never gonna find
this track the instant after so I get to see my man the instant after I lost
hope boom there we were I stepped by moonlight onto this track like oh wow
there it is we actually we found ourselves on the track it's like such a
massive moment oh wow we found ourselves this is where we went to be went back got
the group everyone climbed back up we're a bit of a mission scaling up the hill
lifting people up banks getting the packs up we got up there we started
walking along and then I thought to myself oh no we're actually walking the
wrong direction on this track now so we got onto the track but then I was like
oh no we're walking the wrong way on the track so we all turned around kind of
depressed like oh we've been walking the wrong way walked back to where we met
the track carried on walking and then we had a sign and the sign told us we had
been walking the right way right at the start oh it's getting a bit windy here I
might just duck into some shelter for the audio sake but we had been walking
the right way the first time so we did turn back and head back and it was oh my
gosh it was pretty low morales when we eventually actually finally got to Boyd
Lodge really late at night in the dark and it had been a monster of a day what
had actually happened the reason we got lost and actually where I was just gonna
take you guys it's a bit windy but come with me anyway we'll go there we're
right by the river and this is a good example of what actually happened is
when we went through that valley and we're walking through this valley there
was only one place that you could walk through the valley and not walk across
the track and that was if you walked across the valley at the very point
where the track intersected with the river so here we are I'm at the river
right now right across the road from church here's the river and the thing
that happens it was a river not too different from this the thing that
happens with walking across the river and where the track intersects the river
is there's actually no track the stones don't leave a track so you can't tell
where people have gone so that's the exact spot that we crossed the river is
where the track and the river intersected so boom we didn't realize
we'd hit the track so we carried on down carried on down the river not
realizing we just walked over the track looking for the track and then as we
just walked further and further and further away we found ourselves
seriously lost and if I'd been really sharp on my nav at that point you know
if I'd been really concentrating on the map I could have avoided that if I'd
been really concentrating if I'd had my compass out if I'd shot a bearing if I'd
looked at the map more carefully as we went along I could have realized sooner
that I wasn't where I needed to be and this is the point of the review you know
imagine if that was us in our actual life imagine if our actual yeah and if
our act if in our actual life we were getting lost all the time imagine that
feeling of frustration where you realize you haven't just been walking for 10
hours it's been 10 years of going in the wrong direction it's been 10 years of
being slightly off course it's been 10 years of moving away from your actual
goal and one of the big things that I want to say is after having spent all
the effort that you've spent in setting up your templates and developing your
precision vision one of the greatest tragedies that would happen is if you
didn't then embrace the power of a review and so the review template that
you've got there I just want to say that is probably one of the most powerful
template
that i've given you it's really understated it's not glamorous it's very very simple it doesn't
have big shiny bells and whistles it probably looks less glamorous than the dream activator
or the motivator it gets your it has less emotional kind of play about it but it has a huge
huge level of value in keeping you on track on a regular basis and so what i'm going to
you know give to you in the group is this regular precision review opportunities i'm going to be
just reminding you on a regular basis hey guys it's time for the review um how are you going
and so that review and the accountability you know that is going to really really help you
in the process of staying right on point with where you want to be
where you need to be in this process of bringing your dreams to life so
with the review guys it is one of the most essential most valuable navigational resources
in this process of bringing your dreams to life having a check up from the neck up on a regular
basis are you on track are you still with your goals have you forgotten your goals have you
forgotten your disciplines have you forgotten your dreams have you forgotten your motivation
have you forgotten your strategy do you need to change your strategy up do you need to refocus
do you need to get re-motivated do you need to focus on your dreams again focus on your
disciplines again this is the power of a review is that it enables you on a regular basis to sharpen
up to make those adjustments before you find yourself really lost bless you guys love you
heaps and i'll be shooting one more live on the power of the review later in the week next week
love you guys like crazy excited to share more of this journey i'm going to message you guys all
personally next week to just see how you're going how's how's everything happening what's been
valuable i love you like crazy really love hearing from you too so let me know if there's anything
if you've got any questions remember you got access to this group for life if you've got
questions about bringing your dreams to life if there's a any type of content that you feel like
you'd like me to cover i would love to bless you guys and let's stay on point together as we run
after the fruition of our wildest dreams you guys are seriously world changers and it is a
major honor for me to share life with you to share this journey with you bless you catch you real
soon and and by the way i really hope to be catching up with some of you guys at our live
events and gatherings that we're having through the year can't wait to share life with you deeper
and deeper as we dream together for discipling nations bringing heaven to earth together love you
see you soon