Goals for 2025
What are your goals for 2025?
I am not big on making New Year's resolutions. According to Dictionary.com, a resolution is “a formal expression of opinion or intention made.” I have many opinions and intentions that may or may not be right and may or may not stick. Like many others, when I’ve made New Year’s resolutions, they last for a while but fade away.
However, I do like to continue to grow (mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually, relationally, financially). Most times, I lean toward being a goal-driven person. I don’t want to look back and see I’m the same as I was year after year. My growth is for me, not other people, so they’ll like me more, and not God, so He’ll love me more (God’s love is perfect and unconditional). For some reason, I am more committed to working toward a goal than a New Year’s resolution. I’m not always perfect at my goals and don’t meet them all, but I generally make progress. Progress is more important than perfection. Maybe that is why I am better at goals than resolutions.
I also try to be diverse in my goals across mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, etc. growth and health. Some of my goals for 2025 are:
• Procrastinate less and finish tasks better
• Communicate more and better
• Lose weight
• More Jesus, less noise
• More focused attention with my family
One factor that affects my goals' success is sharing it with others. If I share my goals with others, I do better at accomplishing them. Again, I’m not trying to please people, but I’ve stated the goals for others to know, which supports and encourages me to keep working at them. I’ve now shared some of my 2025 goals with you. In doing so, I’ve given you some space to ask questions about them, ask how I’m doing, or encourage me to keep growing in them.
Hebrews 10:24-25 says, “And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.” The context of these verses isn’t 100% targeted toward various goals in life, but I believe the principle still applies.
What are your goals for 2025?
Who will you share them with?
How can we, as your church family, help you grow in your spiritual goals?
We’d love to support, encourage, and assist you. Feel free to email me at david@sojournchurchnixa.org or text us at 417-815-1975. We look forward to 2025 being a year of growth for us as individuals and as a church body.
- David Pearson
I am not big on making New Year's resolutions. According to Dictionary.com, a resolution is “a formal expression of opinion or intention made.” I have many opinions and intentions that may or may not be right and may or may not stick. Like many others, when I’ve made New Year’s resolutions, they last for a while but fade away.
However, I do like to continue to grow (mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually, relationally, financially). Most times, I lean toward being a goal-driven person. I don’t want to look back and see I’m the same as I was year after year. My growth is for me, not other people, so they’ll like me more, and not God, so He’ll love me more (God’s love is perfect and unconditional). For some reason, I am more committed to working toward a goal than a New Year’s resolution. I’m not always perfect at my goals and don’t meet them all, but I generally make progress. Progress is more important than perfection. Maybe that is why I am better at goals than resolutions.
I also try to be diverse in my goals across mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, etc. growth and health. Some of my goals for 2025 are:
• Procrastinate less and finish tasks better
• Communicate more and better
• Lose weight
• More Jesus, less noise
• More focused attention with my family
One factor that affects my goals' success is sharing it with others. If I share my goals with others, I do better at accomplishing them. Again, I’m not trying to please people, but I’ve stated the goals for others to know, which supports and encourages me to keep working at them. I’ve now shared some of my 2025 goals with you. In doing so, I’ve given you some space to ask questions about them, ask how I’m doing, or encourage me to keep growing in them.
Hebrews 10:24-25 says, “And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.” The context of these verses isn’t 100% targeted toward various goals in life, but I believe the principle still applies.
What are your goals for 2025?
Who will you share them with?
How can we, as your church family, help you grow in your spiritual goals?
We’d love to support, encourage, and assist you. Feel free to email me at david@sojournchurchnixa.org or text us at 417-815-1975. We look forward to 2025 being a year of growth for us as individuals and as a church body.
- David Pearson
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