Steps in the Breakthrough Process.

1. Pray constantly.2. Frame your issue.3. Grab for all the help you can get.4. Design your field research

strategy.5. Get R.E.A.L. about your plans.6. Use great questions.7. Listen for all you are worth.8. Draw solid conclusions.9. Take inspired action.10. Enjoy watching God’s

breakthrough.

What comes from the mouth is heard by the ears. What comes from the heart is heard by the heart.

— Native American proverb

Goals for your graduate degree

1 = Earn the degree.

2 = Make a difference in the world with your findings.

3 = Become a different person in the process.

4 = Strengthen your fellow students and the institution that grants the degree.

One possible perspective on balancing your degree goals

1 = Earn the degree.

2 = Make a difference in the world with your findings.

3 = Become a different person in the process.

4 = Strengthen your fellow students and the institution that grants the degree.

Prayer and research are not substitutes for each other.

Instructions on a seed packet: “Plant three or four pumpkin seeds per hill. When the plants are about three inches high, remove all but the hardiest one.”

Door 1

Your offense

Door 2

Your enemies

Door 3

Your situation

Which door is your breakthrough hidden behind?

Build your own house but don’t make your own blocks.

“I see people. They look like trees walking around.” Mark 8:24

Informal Research Cycle

FORMAL RESEARCH CYCLE

Heads up! Get R.E.A.L.!

Good questions are never written. They are always re-written.

The one who is patient will see the eyes of the snail. — Ghanaian proverb

“‘Tiz better tew know nuthin’ than to know what ain’t so.” — Kin Hubbard

Horns that are stuck onto a cow do not grow.

— Zulu proverb

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.