Too often we stare at the “trees” of others… or create hypothetical ones for ourselves, instead of being diligent to plant seeds today.

Plant daily, plant joyfully, reap bountifully.

As you continue your Goal Planning for 2026, keep this concept in mind ☝🏼
Perhaps one of your goals should be reducing things in your life!

Who has ever set a goal to do less!?… it would certainly get you thinking about what is truly necessary in your life.

For inspiration, check out Essentialism by Greg McKeown.

As mentioned in Joe Rigney’s Live like a Narnian, one of the main takeaways from The Horse and His Boy is that faithfulness is often rewarded with an even more difficult and rewarding task.

Lean into the work around you, so you would expand what has been entrusted to you. Invest the King’s resources, and give him a good return on investment (Luke 19:11-27).

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In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty - Proverbs 14:23