Life Planning Tool

Replenish Cycle Instructions

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The purpose of this exercise is to identify the things/activities that fill your tank and keep you healthy.  In life, there are all kinds of things that suck/drain the life out of us.  But to stay healthy, we need to have a few things that put life in us.

  1.  In each of the 5 rectangles, write down an activity that is bucket filling for you.  Think about this for a moment.  What is it, that when you do, it fills you.  It could be alone time in the morning, or a date night with your wife, or working out, or dinner with friends, or being in nature, or painting… I usually give 2-3 minutes for people to write these down.
  2.  Now, either in the box or next to it… I want you to write down how often you need this ideally.  If there are things in your rectangles that you can’t do at least once a quarter, I would find something else to put in the box.  So, for each of these… is it something that you ideally need daily, weekly, monthly, twice a month, etc.?
  3.  Now, in each box I want you to write one of three letters… R, Y, or G.  For Red, yellow, green.
    This is to indicate the current status the activity you have written in the box.  If it’s green, that means its flourishing and thriving in your life right now.  Yellow means it’s not terrible, but it’s not great.  Red means it is almost nonexistent in your life right now.
  4.  Before we move to discussion, I want you to circle the one that is most critical to you staying in a healthy place.  In other words, it is most important to replenishing you.
  5.  There is one final piece.  At the bottom of the diagram is a hole in the bucket.  I want you to write down one thing that you might need to consider removing from you life that drains your bucket.  Now, if for you, that’s your pastor, I would strongly advise not writing his name on your sheet.  🙂
  6.  I want you now to group up with two other people (or with your team) and share about one or two of the items on your replenish bucket.  Share a little about why these are so replenishing for you.  Also, share how often you need these and what is their current status.

 After the discussion time is over, I challenge teams to pull these out once a month and do a little check in with each other at a team meeting.