Progress Toward Goals In January

Aaaand it’s February! Wow! One month already gone; where did time go? I am always amazed at how slow some days feel, yet how fast the weeks and months pass. But not without fruit; we are working in God’s harvest while there is daylight, praise God!

I wanted to share an update on how I’m doing on my goals after January. I’ll list my yearly goals below, with progress for each one beside it.

Here’s an update on our flight plan for the year:

Work/ministry:

• Finish free webinar series teaching through all the power gifts of the Spirit. The next webinar, Understand and Activate Gifts of Healings, is scheduled for February 12. It’s FREE; sign up here.
• Host live School of the Prophets events here in Chattanooga once per quarter throughout 2019. Completed first School of the Prophets on January 19. I am working on scheduling the next one today.
• Turn 10 of our most helpful prayers/lists on FromHisPresence into free printable resources for our email community. It’s not printable, but I released a free, mini e-course last week called How to Heal from Rejection. I’m already receiving testimonies about how it is helping people; praise God!
• Turn 5 of our most helpful prayers/teachings on finances and success into free printable resources for our OverNotUnder email community.
• Submit 1 article per month to each of three specific magazines that I already write for. I submitted articles to all three outlets in January.
• Upload all remaining video classes (that I have recorded but not released) to our Gumroad store. I uploaded our brand-new, first School of the Prophets in January. Grab it here; attendees said it was amazing! We certainly felt the power of God on it.
• Upload 10 free Bible reading plans to YouVersion. I uploaded the 21 Days of Breakthrough Prayer to YouVersion in January, and it went live on February 1. 
• Mentor 10 blogging business through the Abundance Writers Co-op all year. Currently in process. They are still going strong, and I’m so proud of them!
• Host 1-2 Abundance Writers Co-op training sessions per month. Completed this goal for January.
• Find 5 new magazine outlets to write for and have one article published in each by December 31, 2019. I identified 1 new one so far, and sent them a query.
• Reach and maintain 1,000,000 pageviews per month on FromHisPresence.com by June 30, 2019.
• Reach 30,000 pageviews per month on OverNotUnder.com (this blog) by April 30, 2019.
• Preach at least 12 times in addition to hosting our own events.
• Watch 3 video tutorials about how to reach more people online per week. I haven’t been keeping track, but I have listened to several amazing ones so far. I’ll try and do a better job keeping track in February.
• Finish removing all broken/dead links from FromHisPresence.com. (I’ve been working on this for weeks and am almost done!)
• Finish editing all audio from September 2018 inner healing retreat.
• Attend FinCon 2019 (tickets already purchased during pre-sale window).

Family:

• Do something fun outdoors with my husband and my son at least two Saturdays per month, every month. We did this once in January.
• Read at least one book to my son every day. I think I read multiple books to him most days. I might have missed one day, but we are doing great with reading!
• Cook a healthy dinner for my family and eat it together at the table at least 5 days per week. Um. Well …
• Go on one overnight trip with my husband, without our son, by December 31, 2019.

Fun & health:

• Sew at least one seam on my La Passacaglia quilt every day. I didn’t make this goal every day, but I did a lot of days. It’s SO relaxing for me, and it draws me into prayer. Quilting is Holy Spirit therapy. 🙂
• Finish my botanical La Passacaglia quilt by June 30, 2019.
• Walk/run 350 miles in 2019. I started on this in January, but only got 9.6 miles done (outside of daily walking).
• Complete 3 half-marathons in 2019. My first one of the year is in 3 weeks.
• Remain dairy-free when eating at home. I haven’t been doing so well at this either–and have been paying for it with stomach pain.
• Reach goal weight of size 8, which is healthy for my BMI. I have lost weight, but not sure how much yet.

Spiritual:

• Memorize entire book of Philippians by December 31, 2019.
• Finish reading the following books of the Bible straight through by December 31, 2019:
  • Old Testament: Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Zephaniah.
  • New Testament: Acts, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Revelation
  • Note: Lest you think I’m some kind of heretic who doesn’t read her Bible, 😉 just know that yes, I have read those books before. But on this particular go-round of reading straight through the Bible, I was supposed to get those books read straight through last year and didn’t. (I read for quality, not speed, and often repeat passages or read sections of books–e.g. Psalm 80-101–but that doesn’t count as straight through for the sake of this particular goal.) 🙂
• Get up by 4 AM every morning so I can spend time with the Lord during fourth watch. This hasn’t happened every morning, but it is happening a lot of mornings. And I’ve been getting up early nearly every day, even if I don’t hit 4 AM precisely.

I’ll continue to update these goals throughout the year, but I’m really excited about 2019 so far!

What are your goals for 2019? I’d love to hear about them. Please leave a goal or two that you’re most excited about in the comments below!