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Goal-Setting: Our Path to Productivity in 2015

 

In mid-December I took a half-day to do two things.

  1. Evaluate 2014 life-goals and how I performed at meeting them.
  2. Set new life-goals for 2015.

Life-goals are important, they give us a path to travel on to get to where we want to be, they remind us of important things we may otherwise forget when life gets chaotic and they help us to focus on the most important things.

The way that I do life goals is a little intense, I developed this process by tweaking Michael Hyatt’s process.  I break up my life into categories, then in each category I evaluate where I am, where I want to be, then I set specific goals accordingly.  For example, I have my life broken up into the following seven categories.

  1. Relationship with God
  2. Taking care of Self (health, growth, rest)
  3. Relationship with my spouse
  4. Parenting/ Relationship with Children
  5. My ministry (outside of family)
  6. My Career
  7. Our Finances

Within each category I have a current reality, the desired results and specific goals, the goals I set are realistic (obtainable with effort), they are specific and they are not necessarily simple to accomplish.

In 2014 I met 62.5% of my 24 goals, the majority of those not met were financial, this was a struggle for us in 2014.

In 2015 I thought it was important to reduce my number of total goals, I am doing this by limiting each category to 3 or less goals, so in 2015 I have 21 specific goals.

I print these out and I regularly glance at them for reminders throughout the year.

Having life-goals improves productivity plus it is exciting to know when progress is made towards a more fruitful and satisfying life.

If you need help setting goals, leave a comment below or email me at collierak@me.com

Have you set your goals for 2015? What process do you use, if any, for goal setting?

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Happy 2015 from AdamCollier.com

Thank you for making 2014 a great year at this site. I am so appreciative of every click and every subscriber.  The growth on the site (clicks and visits) has been consistent from less than 100 clicks per month at the start of 2014 to over 300 per month currently.  Thank you !

Changes You Will See on this blog site in 2015 (just to name a few):

  • A greater emphasis on the household management topic (marriage, fathering, budgeting, teaching and training of children, discovering creativity…) being subcategories.
  • Change of blog title, I’ve not yet made the final decision on this yet, any feedback or ideas are welcome.
  • I’ve not given up on the Human Creativity Podcast, what has happened is my family computer is down and frankly we can’t afford a new one yet. So I have no access to audio editing software. Once this changes I plan to begin podcasting once again.

 

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May God bless you in this new year more than you can even imagine.

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Four Reasons Every Christian Should Set Up a Blog Site

 

I believe that every Christian with a heart to serve God should consider setting up a blog site, I think there are (at least) 4 good reasons for this.  Before I go there, I want to emphasize that I am not saying that everyone should become a blogger.  Becoming a blogger is a separate issue, is not for everyone and is a topic for a separate post.

The online world is a relatively new phenomenon, Facebook has shown the public the power of connecting online.  Facebook has been a revolution for connectedness and communication.  Most social platforms however, limit and control how we can interact with the world, they are businesses and must do this to survive. They take advantage of our activities online to sell to marketers.  Facebook controls what we see, they control who sees our posts, they can turn the lights out or change the rules at any time, they have a right to do this because it is their network.  Who knows who has (or will have) access to our conversations on Facebook.

I’m not suggesting that we all get off Facebook or twitter I am suggesting that we own our online presence, we should control it, we should build it how we want it.  Every Christian with a heart to serve God should set up a blog site for the following reasons.

  1. A blog site provides a place on the web to call home that we own. Having a place on the web that is not subject to Facebook or other controlling and intrusive sites is and could become very important. Owning our own site gives us an online presence which enables us to share our message (or potential future messages) online.  Some of these we may not want to spray on Facebook, they may not be for a general audience, we may want to password protect them or just send links to select people.
  2. A blog site gives a place for other people to find out who we are and what our passions are. Look at it as a creative resume, as proof of our professionalism and experience.
  3. A blog site enables us to share our gifts or to share what God is giving us to share with the body of Christ and with the world. This is one of our responsibilities as children of God. When God gives us words of wisdom, words of knowledge or songs or teachings, etc.  we should be willing and eager to share these with others.  For the body of Christ, building a platform in the form of a blog is one great way to share “Christ in you”.
  4. A blog site can evolve into a business or enable opportunities in the future, start building now.

If you’d like help to get started down this path learn more by clicking here or leave a comment below.

What questions or reservations do you have about building your own blog site?

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