This first week into the New Year the list in front of us looks fresh and manageable, although challenging. The gyms are full too as those pledged pounds are coming off. But just like the gym that will empty out in the next couple of weeks, in a couple of months we may have a hard time finding that list of objectives and goals we set for the year. That is why as we plan our work it is so much better to lay out a long look vision and then back into it with chunked up goals and objectives, small bites that are achievable and look like they are doable when we see them on the list. Taking things day by day and step by step can keep us going. I read a great quote from an ultra-marathon runner who says that when he is out there on the road for 100 miles or more in front of him that he has to remind himself that the finish line doesn’t move…it is only him that has to keep moving forward one step at a time. Our work objectives can be the same. We don’t have to let them be overwhelming if we realize that one step at a time, one day at a time, one task at a time will get us there. The same is true of how we are working to work and live our purpose. Paul gives us this promise in Philippians 1:6; “And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue His work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.” As we start this new year, this new decade, this new time for each of us, let us not get discouraged or side-tracked in our purpose. Let us take each day, one step at a time with each day, like today, being a new beginning.

Reference: Philippians 1:6 (New Living Testament)