We made it into 2022. I pray you have a happy, healthy, spiritually maturing, productive new year. If we’re not going to have goals and try to reach them, why be here at all? God has given us more time on earth to work and make a difference in the lives of others and in this world and that all begins with our relationship with him and becoming the best version of ourselves we are meant to be. That means working on ourselves more than we work on anything else. If we work on our own life and make that a priority we’ll see many other things in our life begin to improve. We may not have control over our external environment but we certainly have control over our internal thoughts and activities.
Here are four pertinent questions I’ve heard from various people over the years that you may want to ask yourself that can help rev up your personal growth engine as the year begins..
1. Where am I right now in my life? Not where would I like to be right now, not where do others say that I am and not where had I hoped to be by now? Honestly assess where is my life right now, today?
2. How did I get here? What were the good or bad decisions that got me here? What other rituals and habits that are keeping me in this place?
3. Where do I want to go? What is the one (on rare occasions two) major goal that you would like to accomplish above anything else?
4. How do I get to where I want to go? What is the Prayer and conversations I have to have with God? What is the plan, the roadmap, the rituals I have to develop to get to where I want to go? Who are the people that I have to talk to, the both official and unofficial mentors I have to develop?
Taking time to develop and work on yourself takes effort but it is well worth the effort spent. You will be with yourself for the rest of your life no matter what career, how much you have in the bank or what other things you decide to do.
The only other question I would hope you would investigate which would give you a good introspective view of your life is:
Who are you? Who do others say you are but really examine who you are now and who you want to be. Being brutally honest with this question is a good place to begin your life transformation.