Some people are goal people and some people are not. I have not found a verse in the Bible yet that says, “Make goals for every calendar year.” There are general principles about goals that I outline in my latest book but I am not saying if you are not a yearly goal person you are not a good Christian. I actually find goals fun, but that is what the Strength Finders book would call Achiever. That is why I normally make my yearly goals to start December 1- so I can kick the tires on them and get renewed motivation when everyone else starts theirs in January.
Having said all of that I thought I would share with you some of my personal and ministry goals for your encouragement and motivation.
Health-
I have ten pillars to my health plan (or health Ten Commandments) that I have been working on for a while. Rather than lay them all here I have one main area that I am going to continue growing in for 2020. I have a different exercise for each of the muscle groups and my goal is to add to reps a week till I cross 100 a week. For example if I was doing 34 jumping jacks this week I will do 36 next week.
Mental-
I am continue on working on the goal to be able to speak Spanish well enough to preach it. You can read my reason for this challenge in another post. My 3 sub-goals for this is one-1. I have a certain number of Duolingo lessons I will have done. 2. I plan to take at least 5 lessons in the Italki community. 3. I am going to translate a manuscript of a message that I have already preached.
Spiritual –
At some point I would like to write a book on Spiritual Warfare for the Everyday Christian. So this year the research continues. This will include reading a 3 volume work on the subject by a Puritan (about 1000 pages).
Family-
We have a goal to visit a few more states that either my wife or daughter have not been to before.
Ministry goals–
Here I will put the big 3:
Podcast- I would like to see the podcast grow this year. 3 of the benchmarks for that are-1. Cross 10,000 total downloads. 2. Have at least one download from every state in the USA (3 to go). 3. Have had at least one download from at least 75 counties (about 10 to go).
100,000 Challenge– I would like to cross 100,000 unique visitors to the website. We have had all but 3 countries of the world visit our website (and those 3 countries aren’t known for allowing their people to use the internet. :-)) We want to continue to be a resource to people’s walk with Jesus around the world.
$700 in new monthly support from partners– I have been talking about going from adding to multiplying as a ministry for a while and this amount will get us above the tree line to take off and fly in this direction. This will allow us to add a 3 podcast episode a month and accomplish some of the other goals listed about. (To be on of those supporters)
So there are my main goals for the year. I didn’t include everything because some would just be strange (do you want me to write about looking for a plummer?) Are you a goal person? What is your goals for this next year? What assignments does God have for you to accomplish?
Praying for God to guide you and give you victory everywhere you go!
