Half Baked

2015 Annual Plan

Last week, I shared my 2014 annual review.  Putting forth what I learned in 2014, here is my annual plan for 2015:

Long term desires:

• Keep current work and life situation.
• Initiate more in relationships – network in areas of commonality.
• Become more self-aware and take better preventative measures to maintain good mental health.
• Continue to educate myself and develop my craft.
• Travel more
• Family vacation
• New York City at least once.
• Weekend away with my wife.
• Running goals
• Ultras
• Overall fitness – strength, stretching,

How to structure to move forward: Minimalize. Essentialize. Throw out about 90% of old key result areas.

Moving forward:

Disciple:

• Live a more consistent Christian life
• Devote myself more to prayer
• Incorporate more books and audio to enrich my soul
• Work harder at going from Biblical insights to application
• Become more self -aware and take better preventative measures to maintain good mental health.
• Initiate more in relationships – network in areas of commonality.
• Be more conscious of the preciousness of time and act accordingly
• Cut about 90 percent of the to do list
• Do things that matter as opposed to spending large amounts of time in what amounts to trivia

Husband/Father:

• Initiate more communication and planning with my wife
• Continue to live within our means.
• Continue to slightly accelerate paying on house
• Rebudget in light of income changes– how much to keep contributing to in retirement vs. current expenses and short- term savings.
• Initiate more and work harder to keep and improve relational ties among children.
• Reduce book inventory in garage by 90% — go through one box a week – keep, sell, give, toss.
• Initiate working together with my wife on more projects.

Teacher/Ministry Partner:

• Continue to focus on the joy and excitement of my calling and its resounding affirmation.
• Actively seek out ways to get better at my craft.
• Love my students, my texts, my coworkers, and my parents well.

Pastor:

• Keep focus on teaching, administrating, and prayer.
• Keep focus on supporting our lead pastor and the session.
• Work more on “on the spot” shepherding.

Athlete:

• Goals were too ambitious last year (I did enter 4 races and finished two, rather than entering 5 and finishing 5). Decide on some events and do those only.
• Rediscover the wonder and enjoyment of endurance sports.
• Work on maintaining and enhancing overall fitness. Maintain an average of 5 times a week of cardio exercise.

Scholar/Writer:

• Look into how to move into writing for an audience from zero to some.
• Develop another reading plan to unfollow. Or look at old ones. Push toward 50 books per year.
• Continue to seek to maximize time through reading and audio.
• Expose myself to a steadier diet of positive authors and speakers who can speak into my life.
• Develop writing skills.
• Develop audience

Note: Just about all of these are process-oriented rather than SMART goals. As I move ahead in the year, I will need to tweak current processes and put new ones in place as occasions arise to move from vision into action.

Looking ahead, what are your desires for 2015?  How do you plan for a new year?  I’d love to hear from you!