A Challenge on Setting and Achieving Your Goals!

[Robert Johnson]

Can you list at least five of your top goals for this season of your life?

Have you prayed about your goals? Are they God's goals for you or just yours?

Do you know you can't really have faith if you don't know what you want? Why? Because faith is being sure of what you HOPE for... (Hebrews 11:1).
Do this with me. It may be painful for some, I know, but this exercise will help.

I'l go first. I have family goals, church goals, and others, but here are five of my personal, current-season goals:
1. To finish writing my first book by the end of 2009
2. To provoke people to faith, everyday, on facebook
3. To personally recruit 21 new people into NWC by Dec. 31, 2009
4. To consistently generate additional revenue for my family.
5. To get this "jelly" off my sides by May, 2010.

Alright, I put it out there. Now the whole world can hold me accountable! That's kinda the fear of it all, ha?

[Adrienne]

My goals for this season are:
1. Continue to get my credit score up!
2. Purchase a Home!
3. To continue to earnestly pray for people and add more people to my prayers. And remain excited about praying for others!
4. To run the Women's Center for Comprehensive Care in a more excellent manner by setting higher standards for myself at work, and work on acheiving goals to stay gainfully employed!
5. To continue to learn to practice true love and forgivness towards people!

[Rene Patrice Tolliver Jordan]

Here are my five top goals for this season:

1. Go back to school which I have set in motion-signed up for Phoenix University(start in September).
2. Get IRS out of my pockets and clear my debts- I've also started.
3. Open to others and be a little more considerate of their feelings and thoughts.
4. Understand my role in God's plan and activate them- I believe I'm on my way.
5. Just open up and be me (the true me).

[Vanessa Guidry]

My goals for this season:
1. To continue my spiritual growth, and to know God more intimately.
2. To continue to allow god to utilize me to share my testimonies to indiviuals through my writings, and my voice to save a life, or make a diffrence in someones life.(this includes public speaking and being able to articulate clearly)
3. To continue to pray, love, forgive, encourage, uplift, reach, and help others willingly.
3. To clear up my financial debt with previous colleges by the end of 2009 so I can be enrolled in college by Spring 2010 to work on my Bachelor's degree.
5. To exercise, and eat healthy to improve my quality of life. I need to do that as of yesterday!!! Plus, I need to get fine again...had to throw that in lol

Bonus: by the end of 2010 I would like to have published my first of book of poetry, including my personal testimonies, and rebirth.

I realized with this exercise that I will have more goals to work on besides the five listed later on along the road.

[Dauterive Sly]

1 To maintain my relationship with GOD.
2 To be able to help people more, regardless of their needs.
3 To move into my new house in GOD's TIME!
4 To return to NWC!!!
5 To be blest with a new wife of GOD's choosing.

[Robert Johnson]

Dauterive, we love you and are waiting for you to come home. We will dance, "til the cows come home!!"

[Tieuel Legacy]

1) Fully support myself, and my parents, via my filmwork.

2) To remain among christian friends that share a variety of ideas.

3) Finish my shooting and editing my film on the abuse of drugs in the Houston hip hop community by October 1st (filming) November 1st (Editing).

4) Listen to more of the elders (60 and above) that we have lost ties with.

5) Sing my first solo. Just kidding. Sing background for En Vogue.

Tieuel

[Barbara Elliott]

1) Finish home improvement project.trying to do it out of pocket may take some time
2) Become debt free (pray for me)
3) Get healthier. exercise more.MY VICE IS BLUEBERRY MUFFINS!
4) Support a charity
5(Clean out my closet to make room for my" Skinny Clothes" ROFLOL

[Jada Magee-Stroud]

1) Be a better wife to my husband. He deserves more than I give him sometimes.
2) Complete my doctorate program within 5 years/before I am 45. I am applying this year.
3) Read the complete Bible with understanding by Dec. 2010.
4) Get involved in community service beyond my comfort zone at the church
5) Be healthy-mind, body, and soul.

[Felicia J.]

1 Lose at least 48 more pounds.
2 Stop being so selfesh
3 Start back to graduate school in the spring and start on a doctoral degree
4 Become a better speller
5 Challenge my students
6 Become a better piano player
7 Listen to God more closely
8 Govern my finances better
9 Become an even better me

[Dorothy Horton]

Here my top five
1. Closer walk with God. So I can be closer to others.
2.Take our marriage to higher level!!!!!
3.To help support my husband vision for are business. So we can be bless and to help bless others.
4.To love inspite of what people say, I realize most time it not about me, we all are hurting in some kind of way.
5Last but the most important one is to be light that shine to draw others to my Dad.

[Rachel Nichols]

My goals for this season:
1. Get myself and my kids back into church
2. Reduce and get rid of my debt
3. Build my Mary Kay business to the level of my present job and become a Sales Director. Provide more for my kids.
4. Get back healthy physically(sexier), mentally(smarter), spiritually(faithful), and emotinally(loving).
5. To see what God has in store for and where He is taking me!

[T Jae]

Rachel - I gotta put in a plug for New World. We can help with number 1.