2025 Year End Review – See. Perceive. Act.

Review, former procrastinators, helps reinforce what God wants to emphasize.  For me, it’s these:

• Quarterly planning helps me focus and keep moving.
  
  
• Ask God to connect me with the people He desires.  Initiate interaction even if I’m new.  Let God pick my friends.
  
  
• Clutter creates stress, often causing love and respect to suffer. 
  
  
• Sometimes I have to leave another person’s issues between him and God.  Exercise patience and set healthy boundaries (agreed upon if possible).  It’s a challenge if we live together but value different things.
  
  
• I have limitations because God made me with a human frame and placed me in time.  I cannot do everything.  Recognize the essentials.
  
  
• Sometimes I need to show myself grace.  Sometimes I need to be a bit ruthless.
  
  
• Sometimes my attitude overwhelms me, not the job.
  
  
• To deal with a large project, cut off two flowing faucets:  Stop adding to the work load. Stop activities that prevent focus on the job.
  
  
• Asking “What CAN I do?” removes helplessness and confusion.  It moves me forward.  One small thing can release a log jam.
  
  
• Evaluate.  Change what doesn’t work.
  
  
• Multitasking splits my focus and hinders me. 
  
  
• Making decisions based on faulty assumptions leads to unwise action.  Ask God for discernment.  Ask others questions that clarify.
  
  
• Emotions want immediate gratification.  This short-term view prevents appropriate action.  Emotions are important, but they generally resist diligence. Sometimes action is more important. 
  
  
• Feeling and action do not have to match.  Diligence does not require motivation.
  
  
• Motivation depends on emotion. Self-control is more reliable. 
  
  
• I’m not naturally like Jesus, so the Lord works in me to make me like Him.  I have the confident joy that it will also be for my good. 
  
  
• If the Lord directs that I do something, I must build that into my routine as a priority.
  
  
• Routine helps me accomplish the most important things. Without it, frustration builds.
  
  
• If make goals super small and act daily, I’ll accomplish them sooner than if I work in big time chunks  – and I’ll form a habit.
  
  
• Mini habits cooperate with my brain and give daily success.
  
  
• Priorities are the few most important things I should be doing.  Routine makes priorities part of my everyday pattern.  Mini habits provide easy action for daily progress on priorities.
  
  
• Training myself and my children (self-control, routine) is hard.  Not training is harder to live with in the present and the future.  Training equals investment.
  
  
• Viewing activities as channels available for learning and contribution, I more clearly discern where I should participate. 
  
  
• ”All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  Go therefore, and make disciples..”  I am authorized and sent.
  
  
• Only two things last:  God’s Word and people’s souls. For atreasure that lasts, invest in making disciples.  Teach one person to trust Christ, obey His commands, and teach others to do the same.

What do you want to remember?