Build Your Life Giving List

One guided hour to build the list you’ve been meaning to make.

Most of us are better at giving than receiving.

If you lead, pastor, parent, or care for others, you’ve probably noticed it. You’re often the last person in the room to realize when you need something. You’d rather help than ask for help. And somewhere along the way, serving God can start to feel more like being His employee than His child.

The Life Giving List is a simple tool for noticing what God has already given you—the people, places, activities, and small, ordinary moments that bring you back to life.

It’s one of the simplest—and most powerful—tools we teach. And it’s also one of the tools we most often hear people say they’ve been meaning to sit down and fill out.

So we created a workshop to help people actually do it. Not another talk about the Life Giving List. An hour set aside to build one, together.

This is that workshop.

Steve guides you through building your list in short, timed blocks—a few minutes for the small things, a few for the bigger ones, a few for the places close to home and the ones worth traveling to.

Lisa, a licensed therapist, explains what’s happening in your body when you slow down long enough to receive something good. Jimmy explores why something this simple can make such a difference, and what tends to get in the way once the initial motivation wears off.

Most people finish the workshop with twenty to thirty things on their Life Giving List. Some end up with more. Either way, you’ll walk away with a list you can actually begin using.

You’ll also get five PDFs to keep working with:

• The Life Giving List — The template itself. Print it, fill it in, and start fresh whenever the season changes.
• Workshop Recap — The entire session summarized in two pages, including the thirty-day practice we close with.
• The Microhabit Grab Bag — Dozens of small, life giving ideas gathered from people across our community.
• Life Giving Possibilities — A longer collection of ideas for experiences you may want to plan, schedule, or look forward to.
• The Family Life Giving List — The same exercise designed for your household, so you can learn what gives life to the people you live with, too.

The workshop runs just under an hour, and it’s yours to return to whenever you need it.

Who this is for

• Leaders, pastors, caregivers, and parents who pour out more than they take in
• Anyone who already has a Life Giving List but hasn’t taken the time to actually fill it out
• People who don’t want to learn one more thing—they want to use what they already have
• Anyone who has started a practice like this before and found themselves drifting away from it a few weeks later