About this time last year I made this post.
While I didn’t quite reach my goals, I am very proud of some of things I accomplished because I set some goals. I started the 53in52 blog with my friend Justin Carlson. We didn’t end up finding ourselves reviewing 53 books this year, so in the end I failed “The Challenge” that I had “Accepted.”
While I did not find myself meeting with a mentor once a month, I did make some new mentoring relationships with various people from ministry and non ministry backgrounds – a goal that I do not regret not making because of the journey it took to fail at it.
I made a goal to get healthy. Well, I have stayed healthy, but I have not gotten that six-pack I wanted. P90x kicked my tail. So in my goal to get healthy, I failed only because I am still in the same health as I was last year.
I did not go ice fishing or hunting. Probably a good thing, but I’d still like to go. In fact, I had some really good conversation with the guys in my connect group about ice fishing and hunting – despite the fact that I was the only one who hadn’t done either. The fact is that I failed on that goal, but my interest in it has really help me connect in relationship with other guys who not only love fishing and hunting, but love God and others.
Sure…I look at the fact that I didn’t “make it” with some of my goals and see how it may look like failure. But to me, the journey is as much of the measure of success as the goal. So here’s to more Anti-Resolutions. A year older and a year (hopefully) wiser, these are the goals for this year as I approach living life for the first time in my 30’s (My 30th birthday is this month).
Here are some goals:
- Continue the 1-2 book a month reading habit I’ve been in
- I feel really challenged that this year is a year God will be teaching me more about the spiritual discipline of prayer. So, it’s my goal to take at least one trip to a Hermitage this year.
- Choose to cheat on my work more proactively instead of cheating on my family.
What are your goals for 2011?
You don’t do goals or resolutions?
Then what are the life paths you have determined to take to reach the destinations you want or you feel God calling you towards?