EVALUATION FOR ELEVATION

EVALUATION FOR ELEVATION

Adesina Abegunde

Blessed day to you in Jesus name.

I believe you are beginning to count your blessings even in this year? The provision, protection, guidance, wisdom, strength and so on, and all God’s free gifts. Your hope will not be dashed in Jesus name. Your plans will work out according to God’s will. Stay hopeful, you are next in line for miracles.

I want to share with you this week on evaluation, may be you feel it is too early in the year, No!, never too early. Ordinary people evaluate their year annually and make annual resolutions. Average people evaluate their lives monthly and make monthly resolution. But excellent, extraordinary people evaluate their lives per hour and make hourly resolution, they are always catching up with the next few minutes. To waste couple of minutes, hours, days and weeks is to waste a year and invariably a lifetime. A lifetime because life is time!

A famous dictum by Socrates is that “an unexamined life is not worth living.” Proper examination helps to evaluate one’s life and then make needed decision to move forward. To evaluate means to take proper assessment of a thing to see whether it is fulfilling the intended purpose or intent. It means to see whether it delivers value or not.

E + VALUE+TION

Evaluation is checking out for values in a thing or in someone. The “E” can be assumed to mean endeavours, engagement and so many other thing you are involved in. So to evaluate yourself is to ask what values those things that you have done this year have delivered or promise to deliver.

So as a great person with capacity to do extraordinary things, you have to evaluate the early hours you have spent today, but at least I want to encourage you to evaluate the last one week and plan for this week. The following questions may help you;

·         What are the values of my activities last one week?

·         What did I do right?

·         What did I do wrong?

·         What is the eternal usefulness of my past one week?

·         How much of my plans did I carry out?

·         What did I need to do immediately?

·         Who do I need to see or talk with urgently?

·         Where do I need to go now?

·         What discipline do I need so I don’t repeat my mistakes again?

·         How has my life honoured God in the past one week?

·         Who have I blessed in the past one week?

·         What makes me proud and valuable in the past one week?

·         If I spend the rest of my year like the past one week, will I be a success or a failure by the end of the year?

Add other relevant questions, but remember that too much analysis may lead to paralysis.

Don’t just evaluate to feel terrible, but evaluate to become more capable to succeed.

I see you achieving great feats this year in Jesus name.

Receive the anointing for reduction of prices for the things you can’t afford in Jesus name.

God be with you.

Enjoy your week.