Where did you achieve best results in the past year? Focus on this area(s) Yes, there is a place for striving to do things we have not attempted in the past but we cannot continue to put our best efforts in our worst areas. Our best results come from finding the areas of our strength and putting our best effort in those areas. I am certainly not who I used to be. People who knew me a decade ago and who still know me today will testify to this. I hope to continue changing; but I will only become my best by putting my best efforts in my areas of best results.
Before you begin life in the new year, please take a moment to reflect on the person you have been as well as what mattered most to you in the past twelve months. Did you notice any positive change between the person you were two years ago and the person you have been in the past one year? Did you notice improvements in your weaknesses? Did you develop new interests? Are you satisfied with your current level of accomplishment? Are you grieving over the loss of a job, friend or position? Please understand that the person you have been in the last 12 months can stand in the way of the person you need to be in the next 12 months. A wise man said "To wear a new shoes, you must first remove the old one" Before you crossover to the New Year, be sure to get rid of old habits and allow the person you have been in 2012 transform into a better you in 2013. To experience a new you, you must first get rid of the old you.
Let go of the failures, mistakes, pains, regrets, guilt, bitterness as well as current successes. Yes, satisfaction with our current successes can also keep us from attempting greater things. It is particularly important that you let go of people who are not helping you move forward in order to bring in new important people into your life. There may be a few key people that are meant to be with you for life and even then it is important to be sure you are all growing together. To hold on to people who are not advancing with you or people whose tenures in your life are over is to keep yourself tied to the past. The people God used to help you in the past may not be the same people God will use in future. I am speaking from experience. While maintaining quality relationships from the past and appreciating those God has used to bring me to where I am, I am also learning to give attention to the important people God put in my life here and now.
Before diving into the new year, sit down and do a personal evaluation of yourself and decide that the person you have been in the past year will not stand in the way of the person you can be in the coming year.
Prayer: Lord, help me to know who I am and who you assigned to help me become the person you want me to be in the coming year, in Jesus name.
