My Christian walk

Image from imgflip.com The disappointment I felt every end of year when I looked at the resolutions I had set to accomplish that year and I had not ticked even a single one of them off the list was too much. And yet, when you set your goals right, you'll end up setting resolutions that you'll manage to accomplish. And at the end of the year when you look at that list and realize you've ticked off almost everything of those that you'd intended to do, it's such an amazing feeling. I have come to appreciate the following 5 tips in setting resolutions that get accomplished: 1. Set goals that matter to you. In most cases, we find ourselves setting goals that matter to our parents, teachers, friends, neighbors or our society, which is why we often find it hard, or even pointless to accomplish those specific goals. That external motivation that comes from wanting to please those around us is not motivation enough to get us through from setting a particular goal to accompli...

photo by:  Contributed Photo New year, new goals. But before you chase that goal… I want to believe that most, if not all of us, want to achieve some sort of a better life. We each have a unique image of what a better life means to us: more money, better family, better job, bigger platform, more influence, you name it. We spend a lot of time striving to get to our version of "better", but very often we forget to look into the real cost that comes with this our version of  better .   Every good thing we can think of comes with a ' cross' The idea of attaining a "better life" tends to be so exciting that sometimes we sacrifice too much to get that better life; and sadly, oftentimes when we eventually get it, we realize that the cost was too much, and then we start to hate what we strove so hard to get. Every good thing we can think of comes with a  cross_  something attached to it: responsibility, accountability, too much work, limited freedom, and many ...

photo; unsplash.com A friend once told me, "We go to the university to get a degree but what makes the journey amazing or not, might not necessarily be the lectures and the exams, but the friends we make, the experiences and the memories we build through that journey." It is very important to set goals; goals with their action plans are the step-by-step ladder to achieving most of the things we dream of or are called to do or be. So I started setting my goals, from the big to the small, the weekly ones and then the daily ones. Oh, the great feeling of accomplishment at the end of a day that I had ticked everything off my to-do list. I mean I was good at this: set a goal and hit it! I would not achieve all the daily goals every other time, of course, but generally I was doing well. Did Jesus set goals? As I set the next day's to-do list, I wondered if the most perfect example for Christian living: Jesus Christ, ever set goals. "Did he s...