In addition to these questions, here are 21 more to help you "Consider your ways." Think on the entire list at one sitting, or answer one question each day for a month.
- What's the most important decision you need to make
this year?
- What area of your life most needs simplifying, and
what's one way you could simplify in that area?
- What's the most important need you feel burdened to
meet this year?
- What habit would you most like to establish this year?
- Who do you most want to encourage this year?
- What is your most important financial goal this
year, and what is the most important step you can take toward achieving
it?
- What's the single most important thing you could do
to improve the quality of your work life this year?
- What's one new way you could be a blessing to your
pastor (or to another who ministers to you) this year?
- What's one thing you could do this year to enrich
the spiritual legacy you will leave to your children and grandchildren?
- What book, in addition to the Bible, do you most
want to read this year?
- What one thing do you most regret about last year,
and what will you do about it this year?
- What single blessing from God do you want to seek
most earnestly this year?
- In what area of your life do you most need growth,
and what will you do about it this year?
- What's the most important trip you want to take this
year?
- What skill do you most want to learn or improve this
year?
- To what need or ministry will you try to give an
unprecedented amount this year?
- What's the single most important thing you could do
to improve the quality of your commute this year?
- What one biblical doctrine do you most want to
understand better this year, and what will you do about it?
- If those who know you best gave you one piece of
advice, what would they say? Would they be right? What will you do about
it?
- What's the most important new item you want to buy
this year?
- In what area of your life do you most need change,
and what will you do about it this year?
If you've found these questions helpful, you might want to put them someplace – in a day planner, PDA, calendar, bulletin board, etc. – where you can review them more frequently than once a year.
So let's evaluate our lives, make plans and goals, and live this new year with biblical diligence, remembering that, "The plans of the diligent lead surely to advantage" (Proverbs 21:5). But in all things let's also remember our dependence on our King who said, "Apart from Me you can do nothing" (John 15:5).