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    Maximizing Your Influence
    Maximizing Your Influence
    Maximizing Your Influence
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    Maximizing Your Influence

    By Tony Dungy and Nathan Whitaker

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    52 selections from Tony Dungy’s New York Times bestseller The One Year Uncommon Life Daily Challenge, now in a weekly format! With a reading for every week in the year, this book will lead you to go deeper in your work, with your family, and in your faith. Super Bowl–winning former head coach Tony Dungy shares keys to maximizing your influence in your community and living an “uncommon life” of integrity. Perfect for sports teams, small groups, or personal reflection, The Uncommon Life Weekly Challenge books will show you how to create a life of real significance and impact in your world.

    Read all seven! The complete Uncommon Life Weekly Challenge series includes the following:
    • Achieving Your Potential
    • Building Your Team
    • Developing Your Core
    • Living Your Life’s Purpose
    • Maximizing Your Influence
    • Strengthening Your Faith
    • Strengthening Your Family
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyndale House Publishers
    Release dateOct 24, 2014
    ISBN9781414392417
    Maximizing Your Influence
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    Tony Dungy

    Tony Dungy and his wife Lauren Dungy are active members of a number of family, faith, and community-based organizations, including All Pro Dad, iMom, Fellowship of Chrstian Athletes, Mentors for Life, Family First, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and the Boys and Girls Club of America. Tony is a former NFL player and retired head coach of the 2006 Superbowl Champions, the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League.

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      Maximizing Your Influence - Tony Dungy

      How to Use This Weekly Challenge

      We hope you will enjoy reading The Uncommon Life Weekly Challenge—Maximizing Your Influence. The influential principles in this devotional were taken from The One Year Uncommon Life Daily Challenge—a book we collaborated on together.

      While The Uncommon Life Weekly Challenge—Maximizing Your Influence offers weekly readings instead of daily ones, our hope is that the format will prove useful for regular doses of encouragement and strength—one for each week of the year. It’s possible that instead of getting together every day for devotions, your family opts for a weekly devotional time. Or maybe you’re a coach or a sports chaplain who has set aside time once a week for devotions with your team. Or perhaps you attend a weekly prayer meeting that would benefit from a short devotional time. It may also be the case that weekly personal devotions fit better into your schedule than a daily devotional routine. On the flip side, another option is to go ahead and read the devotions on a daily basis, either consecutively for fifty-two days or sporadically throughout the year. Whether read on a daily or weekly basis, or in a group or an individual setting, the fundamentals highlighted in The Uncommon Life Weekly Challenge—Maximizing Your Influence will keep you anchored in God’s Word. And check out www.coachdungy.com for more resources.

      Each Influential Ideal includes Scripture and an Uncommon Key—an application or action to implement based on what you’ve just read. This isn’t just a read-it-and-you’re-done type of devotional. The goal is not only to engage your mind but also to challenge your heart with the influential principles of God’s message to us through his Word, the Bible.

      If you miss a week, keep going. Don’t try to catch up, and don’t feel guilty. Last week is gone—spend time with God today. Our prayer is that every week you will be blessed by what you read and challenged to maximize your influence for God’s Kingdom.

      Tony Dungy

      Nathan Whitaker

      WEEK 1

      Influential Ideal: Uniquely You

      I know the plans I have for you, says the L

      ORD

      . They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

      Jeremiah 29:11

      Have you thought about all the events that led up to this moment in your life—why you’re here, how you’ve been shaped, what caused you to read this book or seek God’s plans for your life? Have you wondered how much of it is accidental or random and how much is designed?

      I believe God knew exactly where you would be right now and exactly what you would be like. He knew about your passions and gifts and the platform you have. In fact, I believe He was very purposeful in designing your life. He made you to be uniquely significant and to have an eternal impact on the world around you.

      Let that sink in. How would you live differently if you really believed that God had intentionally designed you to impact others? What steps of faith would you take if you knew He had already planned them? What would you attempt if you were fully convinced He was backing you? Would you set out to accomplish big things in your community? Would you go into the local schools with a sense of mission? What impossible problems would suddenly seem possible to deal with? The fact is that when you believe you were designed for a purpose, you will live with purpose.

      I realize we all have some areas we can improve, and just because we believe God designed us doesn’t mean we know what for. But God is gracious. He knows we’ll fall short, and He knows that finding His will for our lives will be a process. We’ll make mistakes along the way. Grace isn’t an excuse to give less than our best, but it is reassuring to know that God doesn’t pressure us to be perfect. When we fall, we can get up, dust ourselves off, and keep moving toward the goal. Whatever our past, God has future plans for us. And those plans are good.

      Don’t be afraid to try big things that fit with God’s purposes. No problem is too big for Him to solve, whether it’s in the lives of people around us, on a national or global scale, or anything in between. That means no problem is too big for us to attempt to solve in His strength. We were designed for such purposes.

      UNCOMMON KEY > God was very intentional about your design, your opportunities, and your purpose. Thank Him and look for ways to use what He has given you in the best way possible.

      WEEK 2

      Influential Ideal: Committed

      Commit your actions to the L

      ORD

      , and your plans will succeed.

      Proverbs 16:3

      My parents raised my siblings and me on this verse. The words are so familiar that it’s almost like a friend giving me encouragement and clear direction in every season of my life. My parents helped me understand at a very early age that God would walk alongside me and bless me as long as I remained in His will. That is, if my siblings and I were doing the right things and following the pursuits that God put on our hearts.

      Note, however, that the verse doesn’t give any indication of timing. We don’t know if God’s plans are for tomorrow or four years from now. For some people, the journey is long, like William Wilberforce, who worked for over forty years to abolish the slave trade in Great Britain. And it may be hard to recognize any discernible success. God calls us to be available and faithful to His ways and His Word. The result is up to Him; the impact and influence in the world and for His purposes happens in His timing, by His hand—and ultimately for our good and His glory. He has the big picture clearly in mind for each of us. If we commit to Him, our plans will succeed, as success is defined by Him.

      Will it always be considered success in the world’s eyes? Not always. Things will occur which may or may not be recognized by society as successful, but the standard we tried to be guided by was whether the success resulted from committing our actions, lives, day-by-day efforts, and decisions to the Lord.

      It probably got me in a little trouble at times—especially as a head coach—when I would suggest that while our goal was to win football games, make it to the playoffs, and even win the Super Bowl, there were other things I wanted our team to focus on that were more important to me. The reason? Because that is what I believed God called us to. To build traits like integrity and character, to help others in need, to seek God’s guidance and wisdom in every decision we made. To commit every action, everything we did, to the Lord.

      What standard of success are you following? Are you seeking to make a difference and have a positive influence in the world around you? Are you committed to a plan or to Him?

      UNCOMMON KEY > Change your plan into His plan today. Do things for the right reason—to glorify God and be in His will. And your plans will succeed—at the time and in the way that God chooses.

      WEEK 3

      Influential Ideal: What Others See in You

      And you should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

      1 Corinthians 11:1

      It would be nice to reach the point someday where someone would say, "Tony, I’ve just accepted

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