Goals can be set or resolutions can be made in different areas of one’s life. Here are 6 start-up categories but certainly not exhaustive.
Spiritual: Evangelism and Discipleship, Bible study (Personal, Corporate), Prayer (Personal, Corporate), etc.
Financial/Economic: Budgeting, Giving, Tithing, Saving, Investing, Acquiring a property, Repaying Debts, Building/Creating a business, etc.
Educational/Work-related or both: Study times, managing work/school relationships, being a faithful steward in school assignments and in handling tasks at work, etc.
Relationships: Marriage, Parenting, Family, Friends, Society-mission, mentoring. Relationships you’d like to start and relationships that need to be restored.
Health: Eating Healthy, Exercise, Medical Checkups, etc.
Passion, Hobby & Entertainment: to start new hobby a to sharpen skills, to turn a hobby into an income generating venture, etc.
A few questions to get you along in goal setting
1. What are 3 key things you’d like to achieve this year or that you’d like God to do this year? You can select from the suggested list above.
2. For each of 3 listed goals, what is the first necessary step you need to take to start the process? Here you’ll find out that you’ll need to break that lofty goal into smaller steps or redefined your goal to include timelines, measures for monitoring and evaluation, etc. Joan Esherick gives insights here.
3. Of the 3 goals that you’ve set, which one of them is most challenging to you?
b. Who would you like to consider as your accountability partner in this area. Anybody of your choice... but preferably someone who won’t sugar-coat the truth, who you can trust to poke their nose in your personal business from time to time and will support you in prayer. Let God lead you in this area too!
I do know one thing from past experience: the times that I’ve spent significant time and energy on pursuing spiritual things/goals or in making radically spiritual changes have often spilled over into other areas of my life. That, I can tell you and it's most profitable, (Matthew 6: 33-34). Don Whitney has a set of questions that you can sample from. Check them out here.
If you’re convinced that this New Year resolution business is still not for you, I sympathize. I’ve been there and done that.
May God lead you and may 2011 be a fulfilling year for all my readers!
God bless ya,
Lady Akofa.
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