Strengthening Your Goal Setting | An Interview with Skye Fagrell

This is a rebroadcast. The episode originally ran in June 2020.
Skye Fagrell lives in Queen Creek, Arizona, but grew up in Los
Gatos, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He and his wife, Jacque, met
at Brigham Young University, where he studied Visual Arts and
coaching & teaching physical education. They moved to Arizona
when he was offered a position teaching Seminary in Tempe. Skye is
the author of More Fit 4 The Kingdom. At the time of this podcast
he was serving as a bishop. Links More Fit 4 The Kingdom: Gain the
Spiritual Strength the Savior Emphasized by Following the Training
Program He Utilized Skye Fagrell's Leading Saints articles:
Becoming More Fit – Strategies for Growth in the 4 Youth Areas of
Focus Inspired Counsel Includes Strategizing for Success Overcoming
Crashes Through Christ There is already a discussion started about
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Library Highlights 6:40 Skye’s journey to becoming a seminary
teacher 9:20 Where the book started: measuring and quantifying
fitness 13:55 Story of Milo of Crotan and the bull: the overload
principle and how he translates it to spiritual concepts Elder
Bednar’s story of the tires spinning in the snow until the heavy
load was in the truck 16:55 Striving How the concept of striving
has been incorporated in the temple recommend questions Taking a
productive pause so that we can progress We need to have confidence
in the grace of Christ, but we gain that confidence as we are
striving 23:00 Analogy of the course of life and running a race
Elder Renlund quote: “Once back on the path, it’s as if we were
never off.” Comparing ourselves to others leads to low spiritual
self esteem 26:55 Story of snowboard cross athlete Lindsey
Jacobellis’ first showing at the Olympics 31:30 Fusing the
motivation of striving with grace Luke 2:52 — The four areas of the
Savior’s growth D&C 93:12-13 — Grace for grace and grace to
grace: an exchange and progress D&C 45:3-5 — Christ is the
advocate and when He represents us it becomes about Him, not about
us 43:10 We need to focus on balancing all four areas: wisdom
(intellectual), stature (physical), in favor with God
(spirituality), in favor with man (social)—work/life balance 53:50
Goal-setting strategies MOREFIT: a goal-setting funnel 1:09:10
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