Its near the end of January, and all of our talk about New Year’s resolutions is behind us now. Or so you thought! Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with your daily eword. Actually, I’m not nearly as fond of resolutions as I am about goal setting. We should make goal setting a part of our families and our lives. Setting goals is a spiritual discipline that makes sense. If we want to continually grow, is a process that will help get us from where we are to where we want to be. This week, we will talk about accomplishing what God has put in our heart, because we know who we are in Him. Here is your daily eword.
Monday
The Bible tells us in John 1:12 that we can know that we are God’s children. As His children, he wants us to succeed in life, and he gives us the valuable instruction to write the vision down and make it plain, so that those who read it can run with it. (Habakkuk 2:2) If we really want to thrive in our Christian walk, and keep on growing, setting goals is an important part of the process. From this scripture in Habukkuk, we can see that there are steps involved in the process.
So here are the steps for setting and accomplishing goals, one at a time.
1) Write it down – Typing is fine too! Just use you pen or keyboard to express what you want to accomplish. Small goals are as important as the large ones!
2) Make it plain – Keep it simple. Enough of life is complicated. Keep it easy to read and easy to run with.
3) Read it – Keep it in front of you – on your dashboard in your car, or on your mirror in your bathroom, or on your screen of your computer. Read it as a reminder and as an encouragement to yourself.
4) Run with it – Be a doer! Don’t just think about it, put it into action. Don’t put it off until tomorrow, begin today and do it now.
There is a great sense of accomplishment that comes when you achieve your goals. If you have failed before at finishing a goal, we all have!!!!, set it behind you and look ahead. We have all messed up, but we can brush ourselves off, and start again. Don’t let your set back, make you quit! Your set back, can be a set up for your come back!
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