Planning the roadmap to success

[Rev. Dr. Joe Joseph]

A foreigner traveling usually carries a roadmap. He doesn’t ask the local for directions. You need a personal roadmap to reach a destination too.

1. Have a clear sense of purpose and focus – Jonah had a specific roadmap. He was asked to go to Nineveh. He instead changed his path and went to Tarshish. If you want to bloom, you should have a sense of your purpose.
2. Have sufficient changes in your life – Move from your comfort zone and take up challenges. Jonah was asked to move out of his comfort zone and go to Nineveh and preach their destruction.
3. Commitment – Anything you don’t enjoy doing, will not help you.
4. Transcendence – transcend previous performance levels.
5. Control
6. Balance in life – Balance between friends, family, work and interest.
7. Otherness in one’s life – Focus in my life is not only to excel in my life. It also is important that there are others who are benefited out of it. Like a rose that helps insects and also spreads fragrance. At the end of it, it grows by pollination done by the insects it helped. God asked Jonah to bring hope to Nineveh. He instead wanted to bring doom.