What is success?

How do you define success? Everyone wants to be successful. No one wants to be a failure. God has a plan for success for your life and you can discover His plan.

Many people define success in ways that may not be God’s plan for their success.

·        Position – being a person of high rank and importance

·        Prestige – being famous and a person that others admire

·        Power – being a person of great power and influence

·        Possessions – having all the fine luxuries of life

Many people have pursued these definitions of success only to become terrible failures.

God’s plan for success in your life is to discover your purpose for being here on earth and fulfill that purpose. - Nolen Rollins

When a man or a woman has the conviction that he or she is doing the work God gave him or her to do, there is a zeal and a courage in his or her soul that all the forces of this world cannot destroy.   Author Unknown

My GPS Life Journey Story - Sue Lock 

I just read the testimony of a 24 year old young woman and I thought to myself, wow, I wish this had been available to me at 24. 

All my life I have felt slightly off keel, a round hole trying very hard to fit into a perfectly ordered square peg.  The truth is I spent so much time and energy focusing on what I was not that I have very nearly missed the boat. Good news is, I am uniquely made for God’s purpose, and those negatives were only there to remind me that I was made for something different.

When I was younger and setting up home and family, I felt it important to keep a tidy home, Monday wash, Tuesday iron, Wednesday meatloaf. I tried so hard but by mid-morning on Monday I was stripping wallpaper, fixing the pump or having tea with my friend. The laundry and cleaning and yes even meatloaf got done but never in an orderly fashion. I never felt “fulfilled after cleaning windows or weeding the garden. I felt like a failure.

However, when there was a crisis, it was me that got the call from a neighbor, friend or relative. I would drop whatever I was doing and run to their aid to listen, encourage, help and serve.  

Going through the GPS Life Journey workbook allowed me to see for the first time that these were not faults, I was not made to be an effective “ if it’s Monday I must be washing” kind of woman. I was made for God’s purpose and that is such an awesome revelation. I trust in the Lord to continue to guide me in the areas that He has illuminated for me through the GPS Life Journey.

The other day I went up the carpeted stairs and thought, “These need to be vacuumed.”  Then I laughed, “I’ll do that later.  I have to pack to come to GPS!  I’m on my mission.”  

I have freedom, power and clarity on who I am and how I am made.  Discovering my God-given mission through the GPS Life Journey has changed my life. 

I was much more at ease when crisis and calamity struck. Neighbors would call and I would go running, I thrived at being able to help someone through a crisis.

Join Other Fulfilled Travelers
Join the exceptional group of individuals who have discovered their purposes and are making a huge difference in the world.What are your God-designed "good works" that He has prepared for you to do? GPS Life Journey is designed to help YOU change the world! -Nolen Rollins

You Need a Mentor/Coach
The assistance of a one-on-one coach is most often needed to successfully navigate the course before you. Certified GPS Mentors are available to help you on your journey. Each coach has specific training in helping individuals on their journey toward mission fulfillment.

You Need a Guide
Since the GPS Life Journey is neither a book nor a seminar, this journey requires a guide. The GPS Life Journey must be facilitated by a guide who has been on the journey and understands the path ahead. Approved GPS Life Journey Facilitators must have gone through the eight-week curriculum and the GPS Life Journey Facilitator Training.  These facilitators can provide practical information that is essential for successfully navigating the course ahead. -Nolen Rollins

What’s In Your Bag?
Our trained GPS Life Journey Facilitators will help you uncover and understand great assets you already possess for the journey. As you discover how God has already equipped you with strengths, abilities, passions, experiences and gifts, you will determine personal direction for fulfilling your God-given life purpose. You already have navigational tools in your bag! -Nolen Rollins

Where Are We Going?

The basic goal of the GPS Life Journey is to help you discover your God-given purpose for the next stage of your life and engage in fulfilling that purpose. The GPS Life Journey consists of eight ninety minutes sessions:

• Discovering My Personality
• Discovering My Strengths, Abilities, and Experiences
• Discovering My Spiritual Gifts and Passions
• Discovering How to Get Direction from God
• Developing My Personal Mission Statement
• Developing My Personal Vision and Values
• Developing Margin in My Life (Time, Financial, and Spiritual)
• Developing My Personal Goals and Venues

- Nolen Rollins

GPS Is a Journey
The GPS Life Journey is not merely a book, a conference, a seminar or a course. It is a journey ... a process, which helps you discover and engage in God’s special purpose for your life. Your participation in the GPS Life Journey will help you…

• Understand how God has uniquely created and gifted you
• Discover His special purpose for your life
• Engage in fulfilling that purpose
• Serve others using your God-given profile
• Have a sense of significance in your life
• Make a difference in the world
• Leave a legacy of impact for others

- Nolen Rollins

Welcome to the GPS Life Journey! Do you believe that God has a specific plan for your life? Do you believe that God has created you with unique gifts and abilities that He wants you to use? Do you believe that God wants you to make a difference in the world? Do you believe that God has a specific purpose that He wants you to understand and to fulfill in your life?

God Has a Job for You!
Hopefully your answer to all the above questions was yes. I believe that God has a special purpose for each of us for which we have been uniquely equipped. We learn this in the Bible in the Apostle Paul's letter to the Ephesians. Most followers of Jesus Christ are familiar with Ephesians 2:8–9, where Paul declares we receive the salvation of God by grace through faith. Yet most followers of Christ are not familiar with Ephesians 2:10, which tells us, “We are the workmanship of Jesus Christ, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” We are created to carry out these good works that God prepared for us, even before we were born! - Nolen Rollins

"The opposite of wasting your life is to live by a single, soulsatisfying passion for the supremacy of God in all things....You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them.” (John Piper)

Finding the right ministry venue for carrying out your mission is imperative. No matter how long it takes and how difficult it may be, it is worth the effort to find the shoe that fits.

"I had a lot of trouble figuring out the answer to one key question: Was there really a place where I could make a big difference on God's team? Was there a role I could play with my skills that would change my world and create a lasting legacy?" (Lloyd Reeb)

“I have often been asked what sacrifices I have made in my life to fulfill my mission. What I've had to give up is  hours  of  doing  my  own  thing.”  Bob Buford

“For  everything  there  is a season, and a time  for  every  matter  under  heaven  ...”  Ecclesiastes 3:1

"Creating margin is a very simple but difficult task ... cutting out the things that you consider to be low value ... often means cutting out what is good to make room for the best.”   (Lloyd Reeb)

To successfully engage in God's purposes for your life you must create margin.  
1. Time margin is achieved by analyzing how you spend your time and making adjustments so you can engage in your mission.
2. Financial margin is achieved by analyzing how you spend money and making adjustments that ensemble you to financially engage in your mission.
3. Sprirtual margin is achieved when you engage in your mission out of a spiritual overflow.

"What you really believe and value, you do.  Everything else is just religious rhetoric."

(Henry Blackaby)

Guidelines for Developing Personal Core Values

1. Your core values are the most important beliefs that you hold.

These are the things that you value most. They demonstrate the

core or center of what you believe.

2. Your core values direct your behavior. You behave a certain way

because you believe certain things.

3. Your core values help you make right decisions. You decide to do

or not do certain things based on your values.

4. Your core values are in line with your mission and vision and

guide you on your journey of the accomplishment of such.

5. Like your mission and vision, your core values should be

consistent with scripture.

6. The number of values should be small enough to indicate

importance and significance.

7. Your core values should be ranked in priority order of

importance. This helps you make decisions when core values

may come into conflict with each other.

8. Try to state your core values in one or two words followed by

statements of explanation. For example, Integrity: I am what I

claim to be and do what I say I will do.

"Leadership is the ability to translate vision into reality."  (Warren Bennis)