Ecclesiastes 3:1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.
364 days in 2024 (Leap Year), has gone by with only 2 days left for the year to come to an end. The end of the year is a good time to reflect back at the year gone by. It is important to celebrate our achievements, improvements, advancements and also reflect back at our defeats, mistakes and derailments.
“Experience is not the best teacher, only evaluated experience is a good teacher”.
People without visions and goals are as good as dead. “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18). We must have individual visions and goals and also family visions and goals. Vision is your purpose statement and goals are plans to get to your vision. We do not exist to live, eat, enjoy, make money and use up the resources of the earth! We are here for a purpose. So, use the next 2880 minutes to evaluate 2024 and reset your visions and goals for 2025.
There is a time for everything, so use this time to reflect, reset and renew:
1. Reflect: Reflect on your purpose. Spend time in prayer and fasting to fully understand your purpose and redraft the vision statement for your life. Analyze if the goals that you had set for 2024 helped you to move toward your vision. Write a thank you journal to Jesus for the countless blessings in 2024. Reflect back and praise God.
2. Reset: Reset the goals that derailed and distracted you from your vision. Reorganize your time that was wasted and retune the relationships that disrupted your progress. Productive time is wasted in futile thinking, so reset goals to refrain from fruitless rumination.
3. Renew: Renew the goals that were partially achieved and add more challenging goals that will add meaning to your life. Find a friend and a family member to whom you will be accountable for the goals and visions that you have set. Renew and add challenging goals to achieve your purpose.
A purposeless and meaningless life is useless. Set goals and visions that will store treasure in heaven.
Prayer: Precious Lord, thank you for giving me the breath of life to live through 2024. Help me to reflect, reset and renew my goals and visions for the year ahead. Amen.
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