Hello friend!
Recently I made a list of goals that I would like to accomplish this year while I’m on the race and I wanted to include you in this part of my journey by sharing them.
Some of these goals are measurable, and some of them are ones that I will be learning my whole life.
Some of them are incredibly personal and others are slightly ridiculous.
Regardless, I want to be honest and open about what I hope to gain from this year!
Personal Goals for my World Race-
- Learn to love others as Jesus did (Col. 3:14)
- Watch the sunrise in every country.
- Make at least one video recap of my time in Asia.
- Learn to forgive and give to God situations that have happened in the past as well as everyday trials I’ll face.
- Learn to love myself: love my body, personality, interests, and everything God has made me to be.
- Learn to see myself as God sees me, not how I see myself now or how others see me.
- Learn how to have a healthy relationship with food, my weight, how I look, and exercise.
- See myself as beautiful and actually believe it.
- Overcome my fear of the dark: Be able to sleep without a light on and walk through a dark woods at night.
- Learn to fully give my plans to God.
- Learn to concentrate on the present instead of constantly planning the future.
- Learn to not compare myself to others and to see others as God has made them.
- Learn more about my love for Japan and how God is working in Japan.
- Learn to stop comparing my Japanese language skills to others’.
- Learn about my overall love for Asia.
- Observe and apply how God works in all of these 11 countries in Asia.
- Write in a journal at least once a day.
- Learn some of each countries’ language.
- Learn to be fine with looking like a fool.
- Learn to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.
- Floss once a day so I don’t have to lie to my dentist when I return.
- Learn to give the situation I am in to God.
- Learn to include God in my everyday life.
- Learn to open up to my community.
- Learn to be fully honest with my community, no matter the circumstance or subject.
- Sleep in a yurt!
- Try one strange food that I would never normally eat in each country.
- Learn to overcome my fear of public speaking.
- Do the Whip and the Nae Nae on the Great Wall of China.
- Learn to play the ukulele and sing at the same time.
- Learn to be thankful in all circumstances.
- Make the Lord truly the Lord of my life: Fall so head-over-heels in love with Him that nothing else, no one else will do.
- Learn to have joy in the little things in life.
