So the word on the street for 2010 is “blog”… apparently everyone has one and successful people (both inside and outside ministry) are finding the time to share, encourage and post their thoughts about whatever on a daily basis.
If I’m honest, I’d like to be there, a daily blogger, but I’m not. My goal for this new year: 52 blogs in 52 weeks.
But what to blog about?
So often we hear about New Year’s resolutions degenerating into the same old habits, but why? Things right now are fresh, a new calendar and a brand new start. I don’t doubt the sincerity of the admission but have we have lost our resolve in our resolutions?
What we need is a resolution revolution! It’s where accountability comes in. We have got to have people in our lives that will help us get back up when we’re down. Without our own personal cheerleaders we’ll fall. And the failure isn’t in the fall, but in the refusal to get back up again.
We’ve all been there at one point or another: down and out, hurt, frustrated, angry. And it is in those moments we decide to close ourselves off, to shut ourselves off or tune it all out. We resolve, as a defensive mechanism, to never go to that place again.
We know how to make resolutions alright; but what if we stuck to our proactive resolutions the way we stick to our reactive ones?
What if we were intentional about holding on to those things that we desire to accomplish or see ourselves become with the same intensity our subconscious uses to hold on to our self-protective defenses?
We must harness all that is within us, exercise self-control and take one day at a time… or one week in my case and see how it goes.
If I’m honest, I’d like to be there, a daily blogger, but I’m not. My goal for this new year: 52 blogs in 52 weeks.
But what to blog about?
So often we hear about New Year’s resolutions degenerating into the same old habits, but why? Things right now are fresh, a new calendar and a brand new start. I don’t doubt the sincerity of the admission but have we have lost our resolve in our resolutions?
What we need is a resolution revolution! It’s where accountability comes in. We have got to have people in our lives that will help us get back up when we’re down. Without our own personal cheerleaders we’ll fall. And the failure isn’t in the fall, but in the refusal to get back up again.
We’ve all been there at one point or another: down and out, hurt, frustrated, angry. And it is in those moments we decide to close ourselves off, to shut ourselves off or tune it all out. We resolve, as a defensive mechanism, to never go to that place again.
We know how to make resolutions alright; but what if we stuck to our proactive resolutions the way we stick to our reactive ones?
What if we were intentional about holding on to those things that we desire to accomplish or see ourselves become with the same intensity our subconscious uses to hold on to our self-protective defenses?
We must harness all that is within us, exercise self-control and take one day at a time… or one week in my case and see how it goes.