How’s That “New Year, New You” Going? part 2 of 2.

PREVIOUSLY
Radical doability also means focusing on a limited number of goals at a time. If 2025 is your year for getting fit, it probably isn’t also the time to start decluttering your home or learning a new language. It also means daring to ask what you’d actually enjoy doing differently in life, not just how you think you ought to change. — Oliver Burkeman

NOW
Above all, effective change requires understanding that real security and control—the feeling of being on top of things once and for all—was never in the cards. There will always be too much to do, because the incoming supply of to-dos is effectively infinite. You’ll never feel perfectly confident about your health, or anything else, because the future is always uncertain.

AND SO? Where’s this leave you?

CONSIDER: Once upon a time a Pastoral Evaluation Form asked Staff Parish Relations Committees what new thing they wanted their pastor to do in the upcoming year, or what they wanted to their pastor to do more. The very next question asked what they wanted their pastor to do less.