About 2 months ago I came across a posting by Shaun King of Courageous Church in Atlanta, GA, about setting and achieving 100 life goals. I read his blog and listened to his teaching on this and it makes so much sense. (For more information, visit his church website at http://www.courageous.tv/.) Setting life goals is God-honoring and requires deep faith. And to make them public, as I am about to do, requires great courage. By making these goals public, you now have the freedom to ask me about them and to hold me accountable to them.
People may say that establishing life goals is a way of keeping God's plans out of your life. However, God wants you to establish goals in order to effectively and thoroughly accomplish the plans that He has for your life. Ephesians 2:10 says "For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago." (NLT) The NIV says it this way... "For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." God made plans for us a very long time ago; before we were born He knew what we were going to do. God has big plans for me. Plans that I know about and plans that I am not aware of yet. Plans that He has yet to reveal to me because, according to scripture, they would be so big and amazing that I would not believe Him if He told me. I truly believe that when God entrusts a great work to me, it is my responsibility to work to my greatest ability to fulfill the job.
So, after prayer and the best discernment I could put forth, the following is my list of life goals. I don't have 100 as Shaun King teaches, but I do have 26. Not a bad start, if I may say. Some of them need a little tweaking or depth, but it's a start.
1. To give a faithful tithe off of our gross income every year for the rest of my life.
2. To add 1% of our gross income to our tithe every year.
3. To be debt free, except for a mortgage, by 2015.
4. To own a house with no mortgage by 2025
5. Complete an MBA degree
6. Teach a college level accounting course
7. Travel to Paris, France
8. Go back to Hawaii
9. Travel somewhere else overseas
10. Be beach ready for our 2011 vacation
11. read the Bible through in one year
12. Teach a personal financial planning class to high school students
13. Write, publish and sell a book
14. Attend New York Fashion Week at least once
15. Start a financial blog
16. Drink 64 ozs of water everyday for the rest of my life
17. Incorporate more fruit and vegetables into my diet
18. Help Kelly pay for college without getting loans
19. Develop a financial freedom program
20. Celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary
21. Have a date night every week for the rest of our lives
22. Have a weekly date night with Kelly
23. Go shopping in New York City or Chicago or Beverly Hills with Kelly when she is a teenager.
24. Take a month long vacation
25. Organize and go on a girls get-away weekend
26. Plan a family Christmas in the Smokey Mountains
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