I love the coming of a New Year because it's a built-in call to recalibrate our lives and become intentional about moving forward over the next 12 months. Here are some ways to maximize this natural opportunity in your life:
1. Review and Celebrate 2011. Make a list of all the great things that happened in the past year, including your own accomplishments and the wonderful things that fell your way. Review the list and celebrate each one fully.
2. Consider How To Maximize. Take the top 3-5 events of last year and consider how you might have more effectively and intentionally leveraged those wonderful things to an even higher level of impact. What could you have done to squeeze every ounce of impact from those events? This exercise will help you prepare yourself to maximize this years great things.
3. Make a Short List of Regrets from 2011. What were the 1-3 things you wish you'd gotten accomplished, done differently, or pursued more intentionally last year?
4. Pray about the first 3 steps and spend time thanking God for His faithfulness, kindness, patience and forgiveness. Wrap the year up as fully reconciled with God.
5. Ask God - and truly listen for promptings - about what He would love to see happen in 2012. Make a list of 4-7 things you think God would LOVE to see happen in your life, family, marriage, ministry, etc. Make this a short list of top priorities and dreams. Dedicate that list to God.
6. Consider what you might do in advance to increase the chances of those things occurring next year. Ideas include getting a mentor/coach, planning chunks of your calendar far in advance, recruiting a prayer partner for specific goals, reading 2-5 books on a certain subject, starting a small group with similar dreams, etc.
7. Celebrate God's leadership in your life and dedicate the year to Him. Fast, pray, journal, worship, and spend time alone with God to give the year fully to Him.
What would you add to this list?
1 comments:
This is good stuff. You should share this in a staff training.
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