Goal Setting - Step 1 - Determine where you are starting from

It is well known that you won't get anywhere if you don't have a goal. The more specific the goal, the more likely you are to achieve it because you have something to strive for. So, just saying, "I want to watch less TV" is helpful to a point, but eventually you have to start asking, "What is less?" If I set my ultimate ideal goals from the beginning they are going to feel entirely unattainable and I will get frustrated and quit. Baby Steps that I can actually accomplish are the name of the game. When you lose weight you don't start by saying, "I want to lose 100 pounds." You start with ten.

The question then becomes where am I starting from? So often we set arbitrary goals because they sound good without looking to see how far or close we are to reaching those goals in the first place. Over the next week (maybe 2 - it just depends on how many areas God reveals to me to work on!) I am going to be setting a baseline and figuring out how I'm going to measure those areas.

The first step to getting anywhere is figuring out where you are!