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I’m a goal-oriented person; arguably too goal-oriented. I never met a goal I didn’t like.
So I’m a big fan of using calendar milestones to review the past and dream about the future. And I’m an even bigger fan of translating those dreams into goals.
This past weekend my husband and I went away without our kids. We try to get away every year between Christmas and New Year’s. Like every year, this past weekend, we enjoyed great restaurants, saw a few movies, my husband painted and I…you guessed it…set goals.
My best tip when it comes to setting goals: figure out the roles of your life and then set goals for each role. My primary roles are: follower of Christ, wife, mom, daughter, friend, leader of the Fuller Youth Institute, researcher, writer, and speaker. For each of those roles, I have 1-3 goals for 2009.
In this month’s FYI E-Journal, we’ll be sharing an article about ministry management called “Time Flies“. In that article, we encourage you to focus on the important and not just the urgent. So I ask you: what are your roles? And what are your important goals for the next 12 months in those roles? My dad used to say, “If you don’t write it down, you’ll never achieve it.” I have no extensive research that supports that principle, but I sure have experienced that in my own life.
Here are a few other resources for evaluation and goal-setting for your ministry:
Reading Between the Lines Evaluation Part I: Giving the Gift of Evaluation to Your Ministry Evaluation Part II: Planning the Work and Working the P.L.A.N. Evaluation Part III: Getting the Job Done
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