All of my goals are ones that I want to do, but some are more fun than others. Some of my goals I want to do because I know that they will bless my life; I plan to ride my stationary bike for an hour each day. That isn’t lots of fun, but I enjoy the health benefits I have been getting from that discipline for the last ten years. I have a goal to read 20 pages every day in a good book. Again, it doesn’t rank up there with a fishing goal, but I believe the Bible when it says that if I seek wisdom like gold and silver, then I will find it, and I want to be increasingly more wise as a pastor, husband, father, grandfather, and friend. I have a goal to write a 300 to 500-word blog every day and that can be a grind some days, but one of the strongest desires of my heart is to bless others with wisdom that I have gleaned from life and seeking it like gold. One of my strong desires is to lose weight so I have a goal to weigh less than 200 lbs and to stay under that until Jesus returns. I have’t done real well at that goal in year’s past, but I am on a bit of a mini roll right now, I have lost six pounds in the last month, and I intend to stay right on that pace and be 199 lbs by May 1st. That goal is not even a little bit fun, but I want it to happen as much as any goal I have. I have a goal to start three more accountability groups for men this next year. That will take a lot of time out of my fishing goals, and most guys don’t want me nagging them about getting into a group with me, but I do anyway. That isn’t the most enjoyable thing in life, but I believe in it strongly.

That is only five goals that I have mentioned, and I have 75 goals. Even if I only had these five I wouldn’t accomplish them if I didn’t write them down and read them every day. Most people live life like they would drift down the North Santiam river, they just go with the flow. Nice, enjoyable, and comfortable, but not much to show for it when we stand before Jesus at the Judgment Seat of Christ. 75 goals would be impossible to manage in your head, but fairly easy when you write them down and read them every day.

When you read your goals every day your passion to accomplish them stays hot and you work much faster all day long, and you enjoy it. When you read your goals every day you think about them a lot, you even dream about them, and the result is that you come up with lots of ideas on how to accomplish them. When you read your goals every day you create a tension in yourself to accomplish them and you almost eliminate procrastination from your life and you become a very good time manager, you get way more done with your life. People who have passion, who get lots done with their time, and are motivated, enjoy life more, aren’t bored in the least, and are fun to be around.

2023 is getting close, set some goals, send me a copy when you do.