I want to tell you something now. If you want to accomplish anything in life; if you want to succeed and see your dreams fulfilled and your plans coming together, you are not going to succeed by yourself.

Those of you who you solo players, you are not going to succeed by yourself. You cannot do it, because you do not have all the strengths and abilities that it takes to accomplish these things.

You will need outside help. And until you realize that you cannot do this by yourself and are willing to involve other people in your life, you are not going to see results.

Do you know why? Because you don't have all the temperaments.

You might say to me,

"I am an apostle you know. God has developed all the temperaments in me."

Yes, as a fully trained apostle, you can flow in any of the temperaments at different times. That is why a lot of people who are apostolic think that they can do it all by themselves.

They step up there as the big leader and leave everybody else behind. Then they try to do the whole job all by themselves.

But do you know what happens? You can only keep it up for so long and you run out of energy.

You run out of power, your health begins to get to you, and you reach burnout. Eventually the whole thing collapses around you, because you tried to be a solo player. It just doesn't work.

Different Temperamental Approaches

Each temperament has a very different approach in this. I'm going to show them to you very quickly, and when I do you will identify yourself.

The Analytical plans very well. In fact, the analytical temperament is known as the planner.

The Analytical can make a plan to end all plans. Ask him or her to plan something for you and to systematically lay out for you everything that needs to get done, and they will give you an expert blueprint.

But the Analytical does not have the willpower to put their plan into action. They need somebody else to get things moving.

They need the opposite temperament which is the Expressive to balance them out. The Expressive is the total opposite as we will see shortly.

How about the Amiable? The Amiable is the people person who very easily recruits people to help. They get everybody else wanting to help.

But you see the Amiable is too weak to initiate the action, because they are not capable of organizing it. They just have everybody nicely motivated, and they will sit and talk about the plan for months.

They will all get excited about the plan together. But they never get to doing it.

The Amiable needs to be balanced by the Driver; someone who is work oriented and wants to get in there and do the job.

Let's look now at the other temperaments that appear to give what is needed.

We have the Expressive, who motivates others and gets everybody sold on the idea. But the Expressive is not a team player. The Expressive runs ahead all by themselves.

They do not anticipate any problems. They get all stirred up and excited and say,

"Let's go and do it!"

Off they go, but suddenly there is a wall in the way that they didn't anticipate, and they hit it. Well it would have been good if there had been an Analytical to plan it for them and to say,

"Now remember when you go out, watch out for that wall. Watch out for that hole."

You see if they had worked together as a team, that could have been avoided.

The Driver gets working and is the best one to organize others. But the Driver doesn't care about people. They only care about the job.

So, the driver upsets people by putting pressure on them, by demanding things of them and making them do things. But in the end the Driver says,

"I'm sick of waiting for you guys to do it! I'll just do the job myself."

If you are a Driver you know what I am talking about. You say,

"I can't wait for you people to catch up. You're taking too long. You're pathetic and useless. Let me do the job myself."

Again, you will reach burnout. You will begin to wonder what happens when your health starts to fail; when suddenly things come into your life that you didn't expect.

Suddenly you find that your heart is giving problems and the doctors are saying,

"Slow down. You're pushing too hard."

You see you should have had an Amiable there to temper it; someone to say,

"Calm down. These are people that we are working with, not machines. You are also not a machine. Let's just care for people in the process."

Weaknesses of the Temperaments

Each one of these temperaments will fail. Let's look at them quickly.

The Analytical has a weakness of finding it hard to decide. Analyticals just can't make a decision of when to get going. They are forever planning and never doing anything.

If you are an Analytical, I'll guarantee that your plans are already written and laid out perfectly. You have point 1, sub-point 1.1, sub-point a, etc. Everything is all laid out nice and in order. It is perfect.

Tomorrow you go back and add a few more points and you improve it a bit more. You think about it some more and you say,

"Ooh, I forgot that."

Then you add that in, and you have a beautiful blueprint. Someone may look at it and say,

"Man, that is an awesome plan! So, when are you going to start putting it into action?"

The Analytical will say,

"Well I don't think it is ready yet. I want it to be better. If we plan to do something, we need to do it right. We need to do it perfect. So, I'm ready to go, but I don't want to do it until the plan is perfect."

Well you know what? The plan is never going to be perfect. And guess what? Your plan is never going to be carried out.

The Amiable says, "I don't want to upset anyone. I don't want to put pressure on people and say, 'Hey you, do this. You do that.'

People may not like me anymore. They will think that I'm just pushy and imposing my will on them. I want to be nice and I want to help them."

So, who decides, "Let's go."

Each Amiable is trying to be nice to each other. And each one is waiting for somebody to step forward and do it. And guess who is stepping forward and doing it? Nobody is, and the job never gets done.

The Expressive always goes off half-cocked and runs ahead of everybody else. They get bored with the plan and say,

"It's always the same old plan. Can't we just try something different?"

So, the Expressive comes up with new plans. There was nothing wrong with the plans. They were working, but they are boring. It's the same old job; the same old grind.

They say, "Can't we do something different?"

If you look at a total expressive you will find they are always coming up with new ideas. And every one of those ideas will work. But as soon as the ideas start to work, they get bored with them and say,

"I want to try something different. I want to try it a different way."

They never follow through on what they started to do.

The Driver tries to do it all by themselves, but soon faces burnout and just collapses.

You see all these temperaments have some good qualities, but they need to work together as a team. And if you want your plan to be fulfilled, stop thinking,

"This is my responsibility. This is my care and I need to do it."

The Best Team

I will tell you what will happen if you think that. You will fail. Because you can be a mixture of three temperaments at the most.

There is at least one temperament that is missing from you. And that missing temperament and that weakness will stop you from succeeding

You will either need to have all the temperaments with all the strengths yourself. Or, which I am afraid is the case, you will need other people to fill that gap.

How many people do you need in your team to fill that gap? At least two people of opposite temperament.

So here is the best place to start. It is in a marriage, with a husband and wife that have come together and are usually opposite temperaments. This is because each temperament swings to the side temperaments.

So, if you take each one as total opposites of normal temperaments and they swing both ways, all four temperaments are covered between the two of them.

You might say to me,

"I am still single. I am not married yet."

Then find a partner who is the total opposite temperament to you, so that you can work together as a team.

The ideal team of course is four people. You need one person who is totally strong in each temperament. Then you can allocate a job to each one. You can say,

"Your job is to plan."

"Your job is to go and prospect, and to get people to support us in the business."

"Your job is to go and get everybody excited, to go and sell the idea and initiate the action."

"And your job is to organize everybody and tell them where they fit."

That is a complete team with all the temperaments.

Mobilize and Motivate Your Team

Once you have that together, then you need to mobilize the team. How do you do that? You do it with words.

It gets back to words and you need to talk about the plans. You need to do what they call brainstorming.

Do you know what brainstorming is? It is where you get a bunch of people together and each person adds their ideas. Somebody may say,

"Why don't we try that?"

That sparks off an idea and the next person says,

"That is a good idea, but why don't we also do that? And how about that?"

Before you know it, you have a whole pile of brand-new ideas coming together.

You can try and brainstorm by yourself. You can get the Lord's help and journal. And if you are a good Analytical, you will make the ultimate plan. But it will take more than that.

Once you have everybody motivated, you need to talk about it, pray about it and get revelation. Then you need to take some programmed action. You need to say to each person,

"That is your job and that is your job. Now get going."

Afterwards you need to check on each person and say,

"How are you doing? Are you having a problem? It is coming together okay?"

You need to do that, because if one person fails the job is not going to be complete. So, each person must be faithful, and the team will need to learn to communicate with each other. The loner might say,

"This is my job. Off I go and do it."

But someone might say to that loner,

"What are the rest of the team doing?"

"I don't care what they are doing. That is their problem. I am doing my part."

If you step off the line and go in your own direction without knowing what the others are doing, do you know what will happen? Each team member will pull in their own direction, and it will fall apart.

The team needs to be coordinated together. They need to talk to one another.

You might say to me,

"I'm not really a talkative kind of person."

Do you see why words are so important? You need to communicate with one another. Overlap with one another and encourage one another.

Motivate one another and work together as one. And you know what? That plan is just going to jump to life, and you will see everything starting to happen.

Wrapping it Up

In conclusion, making plans for health and for wealth is not enough. You need to release the spiritual forces from within you, into your plan.

To do this you will need to tap into your spirit. And the best way to do that is with words. Then the best way to motivate action is also with words.

Finally, you need to release that power in action. It must not be haphazard action, where you do a bit here and a bit there. It must also not be intermittent, where you say,

"We will try it a bit and then we'll stop and try it again."

No, you must take massive, total action but it must not be excessive. Start slowly, build it up and let it increase.

Get Others to Help

You need to enlist the help of others. Have you noticed that diet and exercise are always done best in groups? You get programs like the Weight Watchers, where everybody shares things like,

"I lost so much weight and I did this."

You try it all on your own and say,

"I don't feel like restricting my diet today."

Somebody else in the group says,

"I've managed to go a whole week."

You say, "Wow, here I am struggling after two days."

So, you encourage and motivate one another.

People spend a lot of money going to a gym. But you could buy the gym equipment and use it in your home. Okay it is a bit expensive, but you can do it.

We have a treadmill in our home that I can get on. But every day I need to say,

"Hey Les, pull yourself together and get on that treadmill."

Fortunately, everybody else here is excited about it too. So, while everybody is excited about it, sometimes it is easy for us to all do it together and we all take a turn.

We start to compete with one another to see who can go the fastest or the longest. It adds to it. You need other people to help you, because you can't do this as a loner. So work is always done best in teams.

Have you made your plans? If you haven't, sit down and start making them.

You might say, "I am not really much of a planner."

Then find an Analytical who can do it for you. Tell them what you want to accomplish and ask them to make a plan for you. They will tell you exactly what to do, provided you don't ask them to do it. They will do a great job otherwise.

Find other people who can help you in this. If you have been making plans for years and have never got to put any of them into action, you need someone who has a stronger temperament to work with you.

You perhaps need an Expressive or a Driver. They can help to push you and put a bit of pressure on you.

People out there in the physical and sporting environment always hire a trainer to help them and push them. You see we need other people to help us.

In the same way, in the Body of Christ, we should be there to help one another, not to condemn one another or put one another down. Let's be open with each other and say,

"I am really struggling to lose some weight. You always seem to be skinny. How do you do it? How do you manage to keep your weight down, and how do you manage to stay fit?

How do you manage to accomplish these things in life? And why is it that you always have spare money? I'm always straining at the last few coins to make it through."

Let's help one another. The Lord will give us wisdom and show us how to put it together. Other people will help us.

The important thing is making your plans and putting them into action. If you make your plans and you put them into action, your life will change. Your desires will be fulfilled, and you will start living the life of blessing the Lord intends for you.

My Prayer

"Father I thank you for your word. I shared what you gave me, and I ask you to take it and make it real to your people. May you challenge them, motivate them and stir them up.

And Lord, may we care enough for one another to not condemn one another or compete with one another. But may we help one another to arise and to walk in this blessing that you have for us. I ask that in Jesus' name. Amen."