At the beginning of each year I do a bit of an assessment—where I am, where I was in the previous year, where I’d like to be after 12 more months. From there I shape goals and habits for the year ahead. Sometimes I choose a theme or a meaningful…
If you are the sort (like me) who makes New Year’s goals, you know there are million ways to tackle it. You can pick a word or set goals by categories or choose one habit to practice a month and on and on. A quick online search gives you more…
My 2018 theme was Draw Near, based on this passage from the Book of Acts: “And [God] made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God,…
Just 14 days ago, the clock struck 12, and time starting tick, tick, ticking away the new year. That’s 12 months or 52 weeks or 365 days or 8,760 hours of life ahead, as God allows. The possibilities get me giddy, which is why I always sketch out some goals…
Here we are, 30 days into the New Year. Does it still hold some shine and shimmer for you? It does for me—the past 30 days have gone in a blink. So fast, in fact, I’m just now posting about my 2017 theme and goals. Statistics suggest that 42% of…
Last January I started the year as I do most, with a vision for what I would like my days to be and include, covering all the categories (spiritual, physical, mental, relational, professional, etc.). Few of the items on my annual plan are ever resolutions, per se. I’m not picking…
With just a few days remaining in 2016, I’ve been thinking about the past 12 months and the goals I had hoped to reach (or in some cases merely move toward). My review process is nothing too fancy—just a look at my 2016 goals and an assessment of what happened….
Twelve months of the year 2015 have come and gone. It feels like forever ago that I wrote some dreams and embarked on my Rise + Shine vision. But here we are, nonetheless, and it’s time for some reflection. As most years, 2015 had some rough spots. I’m still having…
Welcome to the second quarter of 2015! We’re three months into the new year—how are you doing on your 2015 goals? It’s possible your goals have faded to the background by now. That happens. Mine keep slipping into the shadows, and I’ve had to coax them back into the light…
Happy New Year, my friends! We are one week into 2015. Besides the frigid weather caused by the recent polar vortex (also known as winter), the first days of this year have been lovely. I realize there is nothing magical about a new year, but each January my hopes rise….
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