INSIDE: How I create goals for the new year with free printable goal worksheet.
Epiphany is passed and it’s the time of year I begin anew.
When January 1st hits, our family is in the midst of travels and festivities and it is NOT the time for discernment, discipline, or new direction.
Husband and I are planning to sit down soon and reflect on our successes and failures and also flesh out where we think God is leading in the new year.
I love this time of year.
It is the time where we sit down with pen and paper and dig in to what God’s will really looks like in our day to day vocation as parents, children, friends, and Catholics.
Maybe it’s hokey or cliche to do this, but I’ve found it so easy to drift in life with no purpose and these moments where we step back and take honest stock of life are what helps me live my life with intention.
“In preparing for battle, I have always found a plan to be useless, but planning is indispensable.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
Yes, life will get in the way of your plan.
Yes, the newness of the year wears off.
Yes, goals get forgotten by mid-February.
But with no plan at all, you will never reach your desired destination.
This year I’m loving the extra monthly planning pages in the planner for this very purpose.
It helps me break down those BIG yearly goals into monthly bites that then get transferred to my weeks and days.
One plan, one bite, one moment at a time as we work our way to heaven.
I sat down and created a goal setting worksheet for Husband and me to work through. You can find it in the Subscriber Printable Library.
I hope to come back and update this post with our 2022 goals!
Late last year, just before Christmas, I realised that my #1 goal in life has to explicitly be “get to heaven”, and my #2 goal has to be to get my kids there too (and help my husband along how I can). And that I really was NOT living my life that way. Sure, I was doing lots of Catholic stuff, but in my soul it always came second to other (admittedly worthy) goals.
I’m still, a month later, figuring out what this really means. As a married mum of three, it sure doesn’t mean chucking everything out the window and joining a nunnery! I’ve got a vocation out in the world. Probably, my day-to-day won’t look that different. But it’s a major internal reordering for this atheist convert.
I’m a big planner by nature, and I’m not sure how to deal with this (to me!) massive revelation when thinking about New Year’s goals. So I’m excited to join you!