Your right about goal number one and measuring it. It really needs to be more of a guiding principle to measure your goals against or a filter so to speak. Accountability groups can help people keep their goals inline with their guiding principles as well.

Thanks for coming by and for the great comment.

It’s not just you, I think most of us (me especially) have issues with pride and self-idolization within the social media scene at one time or another.

I had to take a break not long ago to deal with just that (and I can still feel it knocking on my door). That’s why I believe we need goals and focus. Next week I’m going to offer to start an accountability group to help people define some goals and be accountable for them.

Your goal #1 is awesome. How do you measure your success at it though? Goals need to be measurable (I realize some of mine may not be totally measurable)

I have thought about the email subscription thing in the past. I’ll try to work out a way to do it on Friday.

God bless,

Peter

PS I read John Piper’s post yesterday – I like it! (thanks for sharing the link with us)

Goals, planning, knowing the will of God for your life?

Wow, a blogger can just take this post and the additional comments and have a months worth of topics to cover.

I was blogging pretty consistently for most of last year. Then I wore out. What should or could I write about? Why spend the time and effort? Did anyone really care what I had to say anyway? So, I stopped blogging.

Part of the danger of social networking and blogging can be the temptation for self-promotion and measuring yourself and your message by page hits, RSS subscribers, friends, and followers. You may start out with a goal to reach the world with a message but the lure of popularity on the internet can grow to be just as consuming as the lure of popularity on the street.

Maybe this danger only applies to me. If so, then I guess this is just my confession on my weakness. Once it became evident that I would never have thousands of subscribers, I lost me passion for writing.

During my time away from the blogosphere, God has been working on me. He has confronted my pride and self-idolization. He’s broken my heart for others and put blogging\ministry in perspective for me again. So, I’m starting to get back into writing – this time, only for the glory of Jesus, even if I’m the only reader of what I write.

I like your goals Peter. I need to sit down and write out mine as well. I have so much going on in my head about where God might be leading me that a little organization to my thoughts could go a long way.

I do know what needs to go at the top of my list.

Goal Number One: Be completely sold out for Jesus, no matter what the cost, understanding that this may mean scratching out every other goal listed below.

If I can get just this impossible goal down, everything else will follow. Thank God that what is impossible for man is made possible by the cross.

Great post and great blog Peter. Don’t let it go to your head but I need to subscribe to this blog. Anyway to get an email subscription here?

P.S. Check out this post on social networking by John Piper.
Why and How I Am Tweeting

I love the idea of thinking through social media with a specific plan, though. That’s fantastic stuff.