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29Peoplepeople whom you love and how you plan to love them. Whom do you love? What are your deepest relationships, and how are you going to nurture those?The irony of it is that businesses do vision statements all the time. So a lot of you are businessmen and businesswomen, but at business all they want you to do is craft a vision statement around your business. So you think about purpose, and if you love your work, you think about passion. But do you know what you tend to forget? You tend to forget the people who mean the most to you. Here you've got this picture and all these goals coming from this vision and that's why many business people end up having no family because they totally forgot about this critical element of life.Praise-how will you worship God? I don't mean a onehour assembly on Sunday morning. I mean worship in the truest biblical sense of the word where biblically, our entire lives should be a worship to God, a spiritually sacrificed life. As you craft a vision statement for your life over thenext three to five years, ask these questions. %u201cHow will I demonstrate my love to Him, day in and day out over the long haul? How am I going to do that?%u201d Have you ever thought about that? Now if you will answer those questions and paint a picture of your life, focusing on your passion, purpose, people and praise, you're a long way down the road toward the maximum life. That's your vision statement. Hear me, less than one percent of our population has a vision statement written out for their lives. But those who do are light years ahead of the ones who don't. They've got the tools for the maximum life because they really do know where they want to go. They're the ones who are not going to getdistracted from their vision or life%u2019s mission.Look at those four P's again; when you shape a vision for the passion of your life, you have excitement. If you don't shape that vision, you have boredom. If you shape a vision for the purpose of your life, you'll have satisfaction; if you don't, you%u2019ll have frustration. When you shape a vision for the people in your life, you have love; when you don't, you have loneliness. When you shape a vision for the praise in your life, you have destiny; but when you don't, you have hopelessness.Jesus is the classic example. His mission was really the same as mine, and I hope, yours. It was to please God, remember? He said, \exactly what His mission was, but not only that. He knew how He wantedto fulfill that mission. In other words, He had a clear vision of what He wanted to do while He was on the face of this earth. Several times, people would come to Him and say, \something else.\do. I know exactly what I need to do.\years old, He said to the Father in John 17:4, '\do.'\you've not even got started. You're only 33 years old. You've only been at it three years. You've never traveled more than a hundred miles from home. You%u2019ve not even begun. But His mission