DAY 101 -- Value of Goals and Monitoring them

It is a comfort to be on track.  We paused last June to set in operation our year long goal and progress toward it.  It is amazing that tomorrow I will be only 100 days away from that destination.  It is of comfort to know that we are keeping the original pace we set to be ready in many ways to serve Father. 


I can't help but continue to return to Elder Holland's advice when he directs, "We must take every opportunity to learn and to grow, to dream dreams and see visions, and work toward their realization."  This dream of realizing the goal of being missionaries is  rapidly coming toward us.  The first 250 days were days of thinking about it, planning it, and waiting.  It was a time of thinking that this and that is the last time we will experience that for a few years.  It was a passive time.

Now, with only one hundred days left, it is a time of action.  Most goals have a time of action.  I mean a real time of either do it or forget it.  We are almost daily talking about the "do it" phase.  As I said before, it is comfortable to have a goal, and work toward it daily, think about it, and take action toward it.  I don't know if I remember ever having a dream or goal such as this one and really working toward is as we are now. 

I remember so many goals of the past that were either never realized or were never written down, and actively pursue as this one.  So many go by the way and are forgotten.  Become a millionaire.  Climb Timpanogos Mountain.  Get a degree at the U.  Have lots of kids.  Get married.  Write a few books.  Lose myself in service full time.  Start this business and that business.  Touch and positively influence many people. Be a good husband and father, and even grand father. Continually learn and grow.

Along the line and through the years there were many goals, some realized and some not.  But I can now see how much good it is to write down the goal, keep it in front of you continually, set smaller goals to reach the larger goal, and continually consider it, work toward it, and monitor progress toward it. It has helped us get there.  Well, sort of "there" for we still have 100 days.  But it is coming.