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The Purpose of a New Year’s Focus<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This web-post is a bit of a New Year’s inspirational message or lesson in personal development for the New Year. The topic I’m discussing is what I call a <\/span>focus statement<\/span><\/a>. A focus statement is simply a focus for the entire year. We’re going to spend all year with this statement, this word, this focus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some choose to have a word for the year like health, nutrition, discipline, joy, adventure, finance, etc. You might be a person who needs a word like love to focus on because it’s an area you’d like to see improve. Others use a phrase like “Just Do It.” Using a phrase like this, the focus is on not procrastinating or building a new behavior that yields making results more quickly than you normally would. A phrase may be the answer to the change you desire to see within oneself.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A year is a long time and an opportunity.
<\/strong>Whether it’s a focus statement or a focus word, the goal is all the same. We wish to improve in a focused area of our lives. Now let’s talk about the year, which is the purpose of this writing. Since we’re at the start of a new year, it’s a good time to begin with a goal you wish to tackle. Notice I didn’t say have a new year\u2019s resolution; in fact the purpose of the focus statement is to do something everyday around this phrase, whether that’s study it, read about it, or apply a practice. It’s not just a wish you make; it’s an action you take daily.<\/span><\/p>\n

The goal is to do something that yields results in this area for an entire year. A year is a large chunk of time. In fact, being focused or intentional is a sure way to make sure you don’t squander this precious time. Using a focus statement is a guaranteed way you have something in place so that a year from now, you don’t look back at the year and wish you’d made this very significant change. For me, I don’t want to look back at a year and see that I’ve not made any significant accomplishments. In the words of the Apostle Paul, I’d like “my life to have been poured out as an offering to God.” <\/span>[1]<\/sup><\/span> What a powerful statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Be inspired with a focus for the year.<\/strong>
<\/b>So allow me to share a focus statement with you. Around my birthday, I was inspired by this phrase; I knew immediately that it would be our focus statement for the year (if Pamela cosigned that is). Nonetheless, it’s this. <\/span>“Get back…”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

You might not be one who receives inspiration for a statement or a word, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t focus on an area to improve. Maybe that word “improve” doesn’t sit well with you either. How about getting better at something or making something better? What could you stand to make better this year? Make that your point of focus for this next year.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Get back…”<\/span><\/em>
<\/span><\/i>Let me state this here. We don’t have all the notes and information or ideas on this statement today because the goal is to spend the next 364 days on it. However, I’d like to share a few examples and ideas I have so far of what it means.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Get back…”<\/span><\/em> means there are some things we’ve once had that may have been lost, misplaced, placed on a shelf, and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Examples of what we’re looking to “get back” begins with the following:<\/span><\/p>\n