What’s Ahead For 2012

January 3, 2012 in Leadership with 6 Comments

Last week I wrote a review of my goals from 2011. This week will be a bit of a look ahead. Why do I do this? Mostly to put it out in the open for accountability and for encouragement. One of the things I’ve learned over the past few years is that we aren’t made to do things alone. It’s ok to have personal goals, but who’s going to keep you accountable?

Here’s what I’m thinking goal wise for 2012.

2012 will be a year of tough decisions, finishing through the breakthrough year of 2011. I will have the opportunity to follow up and really live out some of the things I worked on. 2012 will really show if I laid the foundation for those goals well.

My three focus areas for 2012.

1) Priorities – One of the biggest things I need to work on is my priorities. I have them, they are just in the wrong order. I think they are in the right order but they aren’t. I can tell by the way I live my life and the decisions I make. It’s very frustrating. It’s humbling. I need to work on them. I think this would be my ideal order of priorities.

  • Relationship with God.
  • Relationship with my wife.
  • Relationships with others.
  • Relationship to myself . (Health, eating, physical fitness, continued learning)
  • Relationship with Employer (Excellence @ work)

2) Intentional Investment – I’m going to be looking for 2-3 men that I can be investing into. One hopefully from a work standpoint and 1 or 2 from just a general life standpoint. Most importantly, I’m looking for people who I can learn from as well. This is something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time but have never had the guts to do it. I’ve come to realize that I don’t have to have it all figured out to help and invest in others.

3) Discipline of Prayer – I want to build into my life the discipline of connecting with God often. It’s vital to a relationship with God. It’s a big part of the Christian faith. I don’t do it. I flat out just ignore communicating with God. It’s easy to do because I think I’m in control and God isn’t the most fore front and center thing in my mind. I’m really wanting to work on connecting with Him more.

Some thought filters for 2012.

  • Take risks.
  • Think different.
  • Others focused.

That sums up the direction for my 2012. We’ll see how I do. Feel free to ask me at anytime how I’m doing with these things. I’m not doing this to show off or brag. I really want to work on these areas and it takes the work of everyone to do that.

What are some goals/themes/focus areas for you this coming year? 

Listen to a great podcast on goals and goal setting here.

About Adam Hann: Adam works at LCBC Church as the Saturate Experience Architect and Social Media Director, loves spending time messing with new technology, helping people come up with solutions to problems they have, and going out to dinner with his wife.

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  • Anonymous

    Thanks for sharing this Adam. I hope I can encourage you in these areas this year as you do  the same for me. Excited to see what you’ll be writing about when you review 2012.

    • http://www.adamhann.com Adam Hann

      Thanks! Same here.

  • http://shawnsmucker.com/ Shawn Smucker

    Great post, Adam. Thanks for sharing. I find it helpful, in areas where I want to accomplish something huge (like writing a book or improving my marriage) that it’s important to map out daily things I can do. With writing, I set up a spreadsheet and put my daily word goals on it. Writing a book sounds daunting, but writing 500 words a day for the next 7 or 8 months is not a big deal.

    • http://www.adamhann.com Adam Hann

      Great point! I just wrote (again) in my notebook today: Make steps, steps lead to a goal, goals lead to a dream. Something that @PaulWhoTweets shared with me a couple months ago. Thanks for the reminder Shawn!

  • Jmyers

    Adam:  I read your blog for your future goals for this up coming year. They are great and I pray that you accomplish them.  I know putting God first is hard and we do push that to the side. You said something about prayer. Let me tell you my mother is strong in praying. She prays for her children / grandchildren and their spouses everyday. She has taught me that prayer is very important and I don’t do that either enough in my life. She has been a great mentor to me in this area. 
    You also talked about a relationship with your wife. Don’t know exactly what that means but  I’m hear for you if you want any advice or maybe guidance in that area since I know Amanda inside and out. You’ve got a gem there and I am not just saying that because she is my daughter.
    I have a couple small goals to try to meet this year and hopefully can accomplish them as well. It was good reading your blog and making myself think as well. 
    God Bless and you will accomplish them. 
    Joanne

    • http://www.adamhann.com Adam Hann

      Thanks for the comment and the encouragement!