1. Eat Healthy
2. Exercise More
3. Improve Study Habits
After that things get a little fuzzy; you start to get a little impractical:
4. Save 50% Each Paycheck
By now it's out of hand and your list runs away with your sanity before you can blink:
5. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro Before July 4th
Yes, I've been there. I've had that same terrified look that you have on right now when, after my list reaches number 50 (Live in a Van on the Beach), I realize that I've gone too far. Two years ago I wrote a post promoting the perfect strategy to conquering any resolution: Elephant Eating Etiquette. The whole idea being that you take on your resolutions the same way you would take on eating an elephant: one bite at a time. That strategy still applies to me today, even though I have foregone the usual Resolution tradition.
You read right, I didn't make a New Year's Resolution this year. After ten years I have chosen a new path of inspiration this year, based off a wonderful friend's own decision. Instead of a Resolution she has chosen a passage of scripture, committed it to memory, and is hanging it over 2015 like a banner. I too, am finding a scriptural mantra for the year, and I want to challenge you to the same thing.Let go of the impractical list that goes missing sometime before March, the one you won't keep and won't remember by July. Dive instead, into a single verse or passage out of a Word that is alive and active! Cling to it this year!
Your choice should be covered in prayer, but you probably already had a verse pop into your mind. Just for suggestion, your passage should:
1. Present a Challenge - Your passage should challenge you to growth, it should debate/encourage a major struggle/concern in your life
2. Encourage Improvement - The passage you choose shouldn't be something that is going to depress you, but something that will encourage you to push yourself toward the prize
3. Give Glory to God - This is probably the most important point. But your verse, in the end, should not revolve around yourself at all, but remind you to give the glory to the God who spoke it.
Spend some time in prayer over this! Search the Word! I'll be checking back in sometime in the next week to share with you the passage that I've chosen, and I'd love to know what God lays on your heart.
Until then, may God bless your year.
- Bekah S.
You read right, I didn't make a New Year's Resolution this year. After ten years I have chosen a new path of inspiration this year, based off a wonderful friend's own decision. Instead of a Resolution she has chosen a passage of scripture, committed it to memory, and is hanging it over 2015 like a banner. I too, am finding a scriptural mantra for the year, and I want to challenge you to the same thing.Let go of the impractical list that goes missing sometime before March, the one you won't keep and won't remember by July. Dive instead, into a single verse or passage out of a Word that is alive and active! Cling to it this year!
Your choice should be covered in prayer, but you probably already had a verse pop into your mind. Just for suggestion, your passage should:
1. Present a Challenge - Your passage should challenge you to growth, it should debate/encourage a major struggle/concern in your life
2. Encourage Improvement - The passage you choose shouldn't be something that is going to depress you, but something that will encourage you to push yourself toward the prize
3. Give Glory to God - This is probably the most important point. But your verse, in the end, should not revolve around yourself at all, but remind you to give the glory to the God who spoke it.
Spend some time in prayer over this! Search the Word! I'll be checking back in sometime in the next week to share with you the passage that I've chosen, and I'd love to know what God lays on your heart.
Until then, may God bless your year.
- Bekah S.
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