Did you ever get one of these?

by purplesofa 11 Replies latest jw friends

  • purplesofa
    purplesofa

    I was looking for something today and ran across this list. A PO passed these out in service meeting....many years ago. (You can tell as no mention of internet is there) I do remember seeing this and feeling overwhelmed just reading it. It had a place to check off what you felt you needed to work on. I never checked anything off. This particular PO gave us stuff like this all the time.......one time I remember he sent out one about making sure your pants were hemmed properly.

    My Personal Goals to Pursue

    (1Timothy 4:15; Romans 13:14)

    Name:__________________________________________________

    1. Become more regualar in meeting attendance.

    2. Come to meetings earlier so as not to miss song and prayer.

    3. Comment at each meeting.

    4. Improve Preparation for congregation meeting by studying.

    5. Enroll in the TMS

    6. Prepare school assignments as soon as they are recieved

    7. Become a regualar publisher by goign in service each month.

    8. Improve FS (become a 4/6 hr pub)

    9. Improve FS (become a 6/8 hr pub)

    10. Improve FS (become a 8/10 hr pub)

    11. Start doing more house to house FS.

    12. Become more effective in using the Bible out in field service.

    13. Improve FS(become a ____hr pub)

    14. Start making RV's

    15. Make more RV's

    16. Start a bible study

    17. Conduct my family bible study regulary

    18. Aux pioneer.

    19. Strive to become a regular pioneer.

    20. Plan on Bethel service.

    21. Keep up w/weekly Bible reading

    22. Read more articles in the WT mags.

    23. Read more articles in the Awake mags.

    24. Do more to work on and keep the KH clean

    25. Increase financial contributions to the KH

    26 Send more financial contributions directly to the society.

    27. Qualify for greater responsibility in the congregation.

    28. Work with CO in service on his next visit.

    29 Get better acquanted w/elders

    30. Get better acquanted w/newer ones

    31 Show more hospitality by inviting friends over.

    32 Followship more with friends before and after meetings.

    33 Visit and help the sick and elderly more.

    34 Make more sheparding visits.

    35 Become more interested in applying bible principles

    36 Cultivate more fruitage of the spirit in my personality.

    37 Elimanate gossip and idle talk from my life

    38 Pray more and draw closer to Jehovah as a real person

    39 Become a more loving husband, exercising better headship

    40 Become a more submissive wife, showing more respect.

    41 Reduce time spent watching TV

    42 Become a more obediant child, avoid worldly ways.

    43 Spend more time reading Gods word the bible.

    44 Other

  • luna2
    luna2

    Yuck. I don't remember getting anything like this but maybe I'm blocking. Many of the items on that list look so very familiar. I'm sure we heard many of these things from the platform at various times.

    Gives me a stomach ache just reading that muck.

  • dedpoet
    dedpoet

    We never had such a list, but everything on it must have been mentioned many times, especially these two:

    25. Increase financial contributions to the KH

    26 Send more financial contributions directly to the society.

    Any to do list for jws would seem incomplete without those two.

  • zagor
    zagor

    I don't see anything "personal" on this list of "personal goals". Personal goals list is something that is devised for personal development, e.g. Excercise more, Being there for YOUR kids, Speniding time with friends and family, Losing weight, Completling college course, Taking singing lessons, ....

    What they've showen here yet again is meddling in deeply personal matters. No wonder avarage Jdub is a mindless zombie

  • rolling rock
    rolling rock

    Nope... Never seen or heard of one of them...



  • rolling rock
    rolling rock

    Purp, would people fill that out and turn it in???

  • jinjam
    jinjam

    Become a more submissive wife, showing more respect.

    This is my very personal favourite... (vomit)

  • bubble
    bubble

    That list makes me wanna puke.

  • drew sagan
    drew sagan

    My God, just browsing through that list gives me the creeps.

    For each one of the steps you complete you get an extra bedroom added to your house in the new system.

    I wonder where 'draw closer to God' was on that list.

  • littlerockguy
    littlerockguy
    I wonder where 'draw closer to God' was on that list.

    It's at the bottom of the list. So much for "putting Jehovah first"

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