How I'm Planning To WIN This Year

In this short email I’ll share the SECRET for achieving everything you want in the new year…and more!

Bold promise…but I know it works.

Let’s dive in…

It’s the last day of the year…always comes faster than I expect…how about for you?

If you’re like me…you’re looking ahead into next year and setting goals.

But if you’re also like me it can be daunting…

The problem with my goal setting is that I’m still me!

My habits (both good and bad) have brought me my current results (again good and bad).

So how do we achieve our goals while dealing with our shortcomings and ingrained behaviors?

It’s the same as “eating an elephant.”

Answer = One bite at a time.

If you’re not familiar with the saying…it goes…

“We can eat an elephant if we all take a bite.”

Large, daunting, seemingly impossible tasks are ALWAYS accomplished one step at a time.

And funny enough…this is also how we reform habits!

Want to lose weight?

Write a book?

Clean your impossibly messy garage (this one is personal…haha)?

Take one bite.

I use a strategy I call “micro-commitments.”

Let’s take the “messy garage” for example.

I plan on asking my wife, 3 kids, and myself to make a “micro-commitment” of 15 minutes per day, 5 days a week cleaning the garage. Just go in there, set the timer, and start cleaning up.

And I’ll attach a reward for waypoints along the way (like “ice cream once we clear the back corner…”) and a bigger reward for project completion (trip to Red Robin for burgers and fries).

Two things happen here…

1) The garage gets cleaned (yay!)

2) A new habit is formed (this one is even better!)

Because now that we have the habit of 15 minutes per day of cleaning up we can redirect it to closets, the yard, or other household projects.

I’ll be setting my own personal “micro-commitments” this year.

For exercise, prayer, evangelism, leadership, reading, writing, and business.

The idea is to make the “micro-commitment” EASY.

But the end results are AWESOME.

Hope that helps!

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Happy New Year,

Pastor Jake