I have never
been one to make yearly goals or resolutions in January to conquer in a
year. I changed that in 2017
though. I made some goals. I made CrossFit goals and also made a
goal in my Christian walk.
For my CrossFit
goals, I picked 10 (which turned into 11) things that seemed like fun things to
shoot for. A few goals seemed
pretty close to attain, a lot seemed distant, and a couple seemed crazy, but I
picked them and wrote them down nonetheless. It's the end of December a year
later. I conquered 2 out of 11.
Some of those remaining 9, I have tried and failed. Some of the remaining 9, I
know I'm not strong enough to do yet. Some of those remaining 9, I simply do
not have the mental fortitude to attempt (cough cough, like my running mile
time, cough cough). I am proud of those two though that I could cross off my
list. I worked hard for them. Am I disappointed that I didn't even finish half
of my goals? Sure, I mean let's be honest. Do I realize that some of those were way out of my reach and
I should have picked a more reasonable goal? Sure, it's easy to know that now a
year later. But would I change the goals I set? Nope, not at all. In fact, I
plan on rolling these remaining 9 right over into 2018. When I picked them,
they were goals that I thought about. I decided that I wanted them. Some I
fought for, and some I figured I would see if I would get there by the end of
the year. But I wanted all of them.
I could beat myself up over the failures, but instead I am going to
celebrate the triumphs of the finished goals, and also celebrate the progress I
have made this year towards each and every unfinished goal. There was progress
made and I am happy for it.
Last
January, I also started reading a year-long daily devotion Bible. I did awesome for a few months. .... And then life happened. As the year went on and life got
busier, I didn't have as much time to sit down and read that Bible each
night. I adapted and found new
ways to read the Bible. I found an
awesome app on my phone that I could listen to the dramatized Bible when I was
driving. (Yay!) Other times, I would read another Bible reading plan on my
phone since that was what I had with me to be able to read somewhere. And every so often, I would pick that
daily devotion Bible up again to read. Sooooo, on Dec 22, 2017, I was on
Reading 106. Y'all. It's supposed to be year-long (365
days). I'm a little behind. But you know what? So many of those
random days that I picked it up after not picking it up in a while, God used it
to speak to me. A verse or passage
stuck out to me, and God ministered to my heart right where I was at on that
very day (even when I was so "behind"). Just like my CrossFit goals,
I'm not beating myself up over this one.
I am so excited that I discovered more ways to learn the Bible this
year. I've loved listening to it
on my car when I'm driving to or from work or the gym. I still plan on
continuing my daily devotion Bible.
Hopefully I will finish it in 2018. I certainly plan on trying.
People. It's a fun thing to make goals. But if you don't finish them,
evaluate. Are they really goals
you wanted or want to conquer? If they are, roll them over. If they aren't, give yourself some
grace and let them go.
Bring on
2018. I'm ready to restart and continue the work on some goals.
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