I want to begin today’s blog by saying thank you very much for your support. Thank you for reading my blogs and for offering feedback. My hope is that during the past year you have been challenged, as well as found help and encouragement for your life and ministry while reading my blogs. I know there are numerous choices of blogs and posts for you to read, so I offer my sincerest gratitude to you for taking the time to read my blog. As I look to next year, my goal is to remain faithful in this ministry by continuing to provide help, encouragement, and challenges for you.

I also want to thank my team for weekly taking the time to edit and post each blog, and to maintain the website. I know this blog would not be possible without my awesome team.

We have come to the end of another year and look forward to the New Year, 2016. As you look back over the past year, I trust you will take time to give thanks. I am sure that for most of us not all turned out as we had hoped. We had some successes as well as some failures. Yet surely, we have much for which to praise God.

At the beginning of 2015, you may have set some goals you hoped to accomplish: save some money, spend more time with family, lose some weight, start a new career, move up in your current career . . . the list is long. Now in looking back, some goals you achieved, some may be still in progressed and others . . . well let’s say some were abandoned or put on hold because life did not turn out as you had planned. As you are about to begin the year, and you likely have already been thinking about some goals you wish to achieve.

One of the major reasons we fail to achieve our goals is because of the tendency to set unrealistic objectives. We underestimate the time, money, effort, knowledge or support it requires to achieve our goals, or we set goals so high that realistically we cannot reach them.

Another reason we fail to achieve our goals is motivation. If you are going to achieve your goal, your motivation has to be internal. It has to be something you realize you want to do for you that will make your life and the lives of those you have influence over better. When the motivation is external – what others want of you to do, or what fulfills your need to show others what you can do – chances are you will give up on your goals. External motivations are always shifting and unreliable.

I want to do my part to help you achieve you goals for 2016. After all, you take the time each week to read my blog. So I want to show my appreciation to you in a personal way by offering you a gift. As you plan for the new year and set your goals, I am offering you a free 45-minute coaching session to help you set realistic, achievable and internally motived goals for 2016.

Call me at 208-880-0307 or email me at errol@errolcarrim.com to make your appointment.

If you would like help in achieving your goals in any area of your life, call us at 208-880-0307 or email us at errol@errolcarrim.com to schedule a complimentary coaching session. To read Errol’s other posts, visit Christ-Centered Life Coaching.

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