It’s a New Year––Are You On Track?
Happy New Year, my friends and readers! We are well on our way into a new season and pressing into 2022. Are you on ready for a new beginning? Often the tyranny of the urgent takes us off course, and we let our well-intended goals go by the wayside.
Many years ago, I was introduced to a new way of embracing the New Year. No more resolutions but a life assessment to begin each New Year. The assessment included a simple review of the previous year’s activities covering various topics such as:
• How many books did I read?
• How many projects did I begin/complete?
• How many new people did I meet?
• What obstacles did I overcome?
• Did I mend a broken relationship or extend forgiveness?
• What new skill did I develop?
• How much money did I save or invest?
• What health issue (if any) did I improve?
• Did I volunteer or serve to benefit others?
• What family/friend time meant the most to me last year?
This list of thought-starter questions thoroughly covered most of my life’s issues. This new perspective was an eye opener for me and gave me a system to measure my growth from year to year.
Most of the New Year’s resolutions I hear from well-meaning friends are the same year after year: to eat less and exercise more or work less and make more time for family. I encourage you to take a few moments while we’re still in the beginning planning stages of a New Year to take a personal account of your previous year’s activities and strive to improve overall personal growth and development that will affect your physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, and financial health.