Motivated Abilities Project

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Malcolm Webber

Motivated Abilities Project

Context: Individual, Team & Cohort
Focus: Calling

God has endowed you with a unique mix of competencies along with the desire to use them in the pursuit of the life-purposes He gave you before the foundation of the world.

The purpose of this exercise is to help you identify those strengths and desires. We can also call them your abilities and motivations.

The better you can understand what your “motivated abilities” are, and the better you can match your vocation and ministry settings with them, the closer you will be to fulfilling God’s will and bringing Him glory, the more successfully you will accomplish His will, and the more fulfilled you will be.

Individually:
Part 1: Individually, please read The Power of Uniqueness by Arthur Miller.

Read fairly closely: Introduction and Chapters 1 – 6.
Medium skim: Chapters 7 – 10, Appendices A – C.
Read fairly closely: Appendix D.

Part 2: Read Motivated Abilities.

Part 3: Think very deeply about your own life.

Reread closely: Chapter 4 in The Power of Uniqueness. Apply this to your own life as you read.

Please think over everything you have learned about yourself in ConneXions.

Consider in detail all the elements in the [[Calling Collage]].

Part 4: Write down your observations and reflections.

Study Appendix D in The Power of Uniqueness as you go over your own life. Do this in detail and with serious thought and prayer.

Team:
On the basis of your previous observations and reflections as per the above, now, in your home teams, please share about your lives, one after the other. As you share about your life, please describe things you have done that:

1. You believed you did well;
2. You enjoyed doing; and/or,
3. Provided you with a sense of personal satisfaction or achievement.

Such achievement activities may have occurred in your work, your home life, your church life, your spiritual life, or your leisure time.

It is imperative that you describe what was personally satisfying to you. Do not include achievement activities that others felt were important, yet were insignificant to you. Also, it is essential that you relate specific achievement activities and not general ones. See General Tips for the Sharing Member. as well as Appendix D in The Power of Uniqueness.

As one member shares about his or her life, the rest of the team are to listen carefully. Try to analyze what your friend is saying. Seek to discern their strengths and desires – their motivated abilities. Ask as many questions as necessary to probe for deeper insights.

As you discover a clear motivated ability, please write it down on one of the stickers. You can use words or pictures to describe what you have discovered about your friend.

At the end of their turn, please put all the stickers on their piece of paper and move to the next team member.

Please spend an hour or two with each team member.

Cohort:
After both the individual and team exercises we will gather together as a cohort and each person will share what they have learned and know to be true about their own calling and purpose.

As each one shares, the rest of us will listen and affirm or question their statements.

Let’s ask God to help us clearly see how He has made us and what He has called us to do!

Schedule:
Finish by end of Monday, July 24:
A. Individual Exercise (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

Do on Tuesday, July 25:
A. Individual Exercise (Part 4)

Do on Wednesday, July 26:
B. Team Exercise

Do on Thursday, July 27, followed by dinner together:
C. Cohort Exercise

Motivated Abilities