Resolve
A New Year usually brings about discussion about resolutions and goals. I don’t really set “resolutions” any more, but what I usually do instead is set goals, and write them down and try to accomplish them every year. I take a review of how I did the last year, and set a few goals for the coming year and focus on those every day.
I’ve had some time over the last several weeks to reflect and do this while away from work during the holidays. Taking walks, exercising, driving, journaling, thinking… just trying to assess what I did well last year, what is most important for the coming year, and what I can do better.
Do you do New Year Resolutions or set goals for yourself each year?
Do you have an idea what you want to accomplish or where you want to go in 2026?
A Real Christian Businessman knows that goal setting is a basic part of what God wired us to do. This doesn’t mean you have to go on a retreat for a week in a secluded place and come back with a 7 page list of things you want to accomplish for the coming year, but it does mean thinking about how you can better yourself and better represent your faith in the workplace by thinking about it for a bit.
“The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.” Prov 21:5 (NIV)
The simplest most basic way to do this I have found is to just have no more than 3 things you want to accomplish in the next year. Nothing fancy, nothing outrageous, just 3 simple things.
Then write them down.
It would be great if you posted it on your mirror to look at every morning, but you really don’t even have to do anything else with them except write them down at least one time. There is something about physically writing goals down that make them actually sink into your mind and helps to make them happen.
So think about it for a moment.
And write down 3 things you want to accomplish in 2026.
“And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.” Hab 2:2-3 (ESV)