One of my goals

I hope everyone has goals. We need something to motivate us to reach a certain benchmark. What happens often, though, is that we set a goal that is completely unattainable, completely outside of the realm of possibility. When we set goals that are not feasible, we try for a little while, then, decide that it just isn't going to happen. When this occurs, we often decide that all goals are unattainable, which is not true.

Having a goal of saving one million dollars is completely unrealistic for someone earning the salary that I earn. Don't get me wrong, I am grateful every day to have the job that I have and to earn what I earn. However, we will never save one million dollars. Yet, we can save what we can, where we can, so that we can have a little emergency fund. So, we don't set our goal at one million dollars; we set our goal for doing what we can.

Today's word is 1 Thessalonians 4:11, NLT, which reads, "Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands..."

I think this is a goal that we can all achieve, though most of us (me included) have a hard time accomplishing. It is my goal to live a quiet life, to get along with others, to not do anything to raise a ruckus or a fuss. It is my goal to live in such a way that most folks will say that I got along well with others that I didn't cause a scene; that part is reasonably simple. How about the second part?

It is much more difficult to mind our own business, isn't it? We want to know what's going on with anybody and everybody all the time. We know that we can "fix" them. We know that we have the best advice for them. However, we often don't share advice; we just share the dirt. Minding my own business is not impossible. I am going to make it one of my goals.

Be Blessed,
Mickey T