My Best Life Is Here Somewhere

I freely admit that I'm a goal driven person.  I always have been and I probably always will be.  What I've always struggled with though, is what is beyond the goals and that is purpose - the thing that is supposed to drive the goals.  Give me an end point and I can get there.  Ask me why I'm doing it and I probably can't answer you.  As 2011 approached, I realized that I didn't have anything that I thought worthy of being a "goal" for this year.  There were the persistent "lose weight", "get organized" type of things but even those seemed superficial at best and not very life changing at this stage of my life.

My husband gave me a devotional book for Christmas this year and I realized that it was the third such book that I'd received in the last few years each of which has found its way into my nightstand black hole or the book case in my living room bound for a life of dust bunnies before being donated to a "worthy cause".  Maybe God is trying to tell me something? Maybe I should finally be the "worthy cause" I donate too?  But how likely am I to really take the time to read each one for 365 days, think about it and then act on it?  If I'm such a goal driven person, I need something to keep me on task, especially since they all start on January 1st and here it is already January 9th.

This morning, after church, I mentioned to someone that I need to start saying "no" to the things that I don't want to do, and start saying "yes" to the things that I do want to do.  Why not start with this?

So tomorrow, January 10th, I begin finding "My Best Life" in the one I already have through a series of daily devotionals written by Joel Osteen in "Your Best Life Begins Each Morning".  Will you help me stay on track?