When you get to the end of the day, and you are all done in, it is good to talk to yourself in a positive way about being tired instead of feeling sorry for yourself. When you are busy, rejoice and consider yourself blessed to have so much of significance to do. Burnout isn’t because of working too much; it is caused by faulty, negative thinking.

I try and pack my day full of activity so I am often going at a frantic pace to try and get everything done on my to-do list. I discipline myself to always rejoice over my busy schedule and to tell myself that I am having a fantastic time doing things that make a difference as well as things that I enjoy.

I start my year on October 27th so I am about two weeks into my new goals and I am getting into a routine in pursuit of them. Here are half of my 74 goals for the year, my favorite ones.

1. I will teach each week four different Leadership classes until the end of April. I am presently doing that and I have a total of 70 studemts who are doing great.

2. I will pastor Agape Family Fellowship in Albany for the next year preaching on Sundays and mentoring Preston to take over with the goal of having an average attendance of 100 by the end of 2023.

3. I will study hard and prepare well and preach each week at our Wednesday night service with the goal of an average of 200 in attendance at the end of 2023.

4. I am either leading or involved with four different men’s weekly accountability groups now. I will work at getting three more groups started and coach leaders for an additional three groups.

5. I will write my blog each day working on my writing skills with the goal of of having 800 people subscribed and 100,000 views in 2023. Everyday I will pray asking God to spread the blog and to work in me granting me a special annointing when I write to bless and edify those who read.

6. I will be involved in two different online Pastor accountability groups with the goal being to stay faithful to the disciplines so God will use me and bless my efforts as a Pastor, and also to encourage the pastors in my groups to be faithful to the disciplines so that they will be successful in their ministries.

7. I will meet with the young staff at JBC each week mentoring and teaching and holding them accountable so that they become very faithful and successful leaders of their respective ministries at JBC.

8. I will mentor and coach two pastors outside JBC helping them to become very successful as Pastors of their churches.

9. I will teach a two-day seminar at JBC in January on how to develop a leadership training program in a local church. I will pray that we have 100 pastors here.

10. I will coach six different people in JBC helping them start and lead their own ministries.

11. I will pray for 600 hours total this next year with 300 hours being “by myself” praying, 50 hours praying with Patty, 200 hour of corporate praying with JBC, and 50 hours of corporate praying with Agape.

12. I will bring my total number of verses memorized up to 700, get up to 200th place in “Scripture Memory” and maintain it, and memorize the book of Colossians.

13. I will finish my devotional book of the best of 365 of my daily blogs.

14. I will read twelve chapters every day in my Bible.

15. I will read 1,000 pages in good books.

16. I will listen to 100 sermons, lectures or talks online.

17. I will take Patty on 100 dates and will love her the way Christ loves the church.

18. I will pray my prayer of commitment every morning, first thing without fail.

19. I will write a book on how to successfully accomplish Hebrews 6:1 in your life, how to practically pursue maturity.

20. I will go hunting in Alaska in August.

21. I will go halibut fishing in my driftboat in Alaska in May.

22. I will go sockeye salmon fishing in Alaska in July.

23. I will ride my bike with others along the Pacific coast from Canada to Mexico a trip of 1800 miles taking 29 days.

24. I will put in a quarter acre fish pond on my place using a liner, a filter system, and aeration, I will plant large mouth bass in my pond and put in an automatic feeding system to maximize growth.

25. I will restart my aquaponics system that I had successfully running a couple of years ago using largemouth bass.

26. I will finish restoring the 1969 mustang with my grandson Isaac.

27.I will start restoring my 1950 Ford Club Coupe with a flathead V8.

28. I will build an electric car from scratch using my purchased plans.

29. I will lead the remodel/building project at JBC of turning the racketball court into a chapel room for the kid’s ministry.

30. I will ride my stationary bike an hour each night that I am home, I will run/walk on my treadmill two times each week for 30 minutes, and I will lift weights three days a week for 30 minutes.

31. I will lose weight and get to 188 pounds and maintain that weight.

32. I will go fishing at CJ Striker reservoir in Idaho for one week this summer with Seth and his family.

33. I will run the Sauvie Island half marathon on July 4th.

34. I will reroof the north side of my big shop, reside it, and paint it.

35. I will shoot a blackmailed deer in the next two months with my bow.

36. I will send a text, email, or phone each kid, their spouse and grandkid each month.

37. I will facilitate a psstor’s lunch inviting JBC daughter church pastors, local pastors, and JBC staff once every three months and I will teach a lesson on pastoral leadership.