How do you eat an elephant? Answer: piece by piece.

Summer is plan and prepare season for me and the College Mission. This illustration has been helpful to me since I heard it Sunday. You can tackle almost anything if you break it down into small enough chunks, but if you try to figure out how to swallow the whole thing at once, you are done.

Simple, I know, but for someone that is into results, not the planning, this motivates me to plan, so I can eat lots of big elephants. (This picture was chosen over this pic of the lady standing over an elephant she killed with a bow and arrow. I live in Seattle, and don’t want a riot outside my house.)

Are you planning or just hoping things work out? Are you thinking about things like: “Reverse Engineering”, “Milestones”, “Quarterly Goals” and “Monthly Goals”? I don’t trust in my plans, but I am planning because I trust that Jesus is going to “do work” here next year.

Look for future posts on “Playbooks”, “Launch Plans”, and “Missional Goals”.