Planning for New Year already?

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If you’re secretly hatching plans for New Year already you’re not alone. Those in the Northern Hemisphere might start their planning for New Year as early as September.

The truth is the end of the working year, as we break for Christmas, makes perfect sense to start planning for a better coming year. Even if we’ve had a great year, nobody wants to settle for more-of-the-same the following year. Certainly nobody considers receding.

At the end of a working year you’re probably exhausted and at least somewhat jaded. Your body and mind are telling you what you already know. You need a break.

Motivation, therefore, is situationally sourced. I know some of you have had horrible years. For some, the worst. (Mine was two years ago.) Others of you have had a so-so year. And others again have had breakthrough years.

We’re always looking at New Year
either for consolidation or growth.

Whichever way it is, we desire a springboard. We each want to make an impact. The irrepressible goal beckons. It’s the insatiable thirst that drives you out of bed in the morning. Whatever it is. We know when we’re in the grips of depression — that drive to do, know, grow and become has gone A.W.O.L. Maybe next year holds the welcome challenge to climb out of the pit of despair.

Motivation is also piqued when you have thoughts in mind of certain relationships that spur you to prove someone wrong; you are better than they think you are. And though you know you’ve nothing to prove, you get some sense of glee out of seeing people change their minds about you.

Perhaps you’ve failed time and again in achieving a goal that won’t let go of you. Praise God for that! If you don’t give up, ultimately you will get there. Isn’t it amazing that even though we trip up and give up our goal twenty times, the opportunity for the 21st time inevitably comes around? There are more prospects to come.

Maybe you enjoy planning because it’s a subtle escape into that dreamland of promise, a precinct of your imagination where anything you design goes. No great goal achievement occurs without conscientious effort, but much of the passion that drives us up to and beyond our goals is nurtured in this time of visioning.

I rejoice with you that, if you are planning already, you are innately interested in the life that God has given to you.

From the safety of imagination
breakthrough risks are free to behold.

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Dreams ignite belief,
for building what lasts.

Dreams inspire vision,
for putting paid to wasted pasts.

Dreams fuel passion,
for working for the increase.

Dreams drive motivation,
because achievement is perfect peace.