Testimony


2021


1. What is your purpose this year and what are the priority areas of focus that support it?


Reflections


2. What would you like your biggest triumph to be?


3. What important relationships do you want to enhance?


4. What would you be most happy about completing?


5. What are you most committed to changing and improving in your work and your life?


6. How are the teams in your life performing and what actions will you take to lead them to health and high performance?


By Nancy Bradley


ecently, my son sent a few family members, friends, and me an email with his yearly evaluation for work. He says, “I have to complete this ev- ery year for work. I found this therapeutic this year and some forward- looking value as well. Some of this is completely work-related, so just gloss over that. But, this will be the broader mindset for 2021. (In case you’ve been retired a while, the process for evaluating one’s work/ employment is no longer one- sided with the boss having the only input on how well you have performed within the year. Teachers have “Smart Goals”. Maybe your employer calls them something else.) 


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 could. Others could attack the procedure with little thought and be done with it. Wanting to see his thoughts (my son is not warm and fuzzy and keeps his  stopped. Wait, I’m retired. Thankfully, I don’t have to complete this process. But what if I should look backward at the satisfactions, disappointments,


sorrows, and losses from 2020? What if I could look forward to improvements,   set goals for the year? 


measure up? What can we look forward to in 2021? 


2020


1. What was your biggest triumph this year? 2. What was the smartest decision you made? 3. What were the most important projects you completed? 4. What are you happiest about completing? 5. What was the greatest lesson you learned? 6. 7. Who had the greatest impact on your life? 8. What important relationship improved the most? 9. What was the biggest risk you took? 10. What else do you need to do or say to be complete for the year?


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7. What brings you great joy and how are you going to have more of it in the year ahead?


8. Where will you invest in improv- ing your overall well-being?


9. What do you think your biggest risk will be this year?


10. What one-word theme describes your breakthrough year?


Not wanting my answers to be                on MY answers and looking at my hopes, goals, and the purposes that God has for me. May our churches     - tions as a guideline and look to God to help us plan for 2021.


Proverbs 16:9 ESV The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establish- es his steps.


Nancy Bradley is a member of Edgemont Presbyterian Church in Covington, VA.


The Associate Reformed Presbyterian


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