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     On Sunday, January 2, I will do what I have done every year for the past several years – I will do my best to cast a God-given vision for the new year to the people I am privileged to serve in ministry. This year’s title is “A New Year’s Revolution,” a play on the word, resolution, with an acknowledgement that we rarely keep resolutions when we make them. Getting ready for that sermon causes me to think about what I would like to accomplish in 2011. Here is my current list:

1. Develop better habits. That is a carryover from my 2010 list. I did better in 2010, lost some weight, walked almost every day, got more consistent in my reading, etc. Then came December. I haven’t done so well this month with all the travel, snow, parties, etc., so I am going to start over in January.
2. Manage my social networking and online ministry better instead of letting it manage me. I know it is a valuable tool, but I can let it become the tail that wags the dog.
3. As a corollary, I am going to streamline my blogging stuff. I started out learning to blog at http://www.playingthesecondhalf.blogspot.com/. Then, I launched back into ministry and used wordpress to create http://www.petetackett.com/. Then I took on the transitional pastorate at a church in Johnson City, Tennessee, and developed a blog/website for them at http://www.antiochbcjc.org/. (For the record, I did not choose the name, but that is another story.) I would like to migrate my personal blog onto one of the other pages and only use wordpress in the new year.
4. I am going to clean up my friends list on twitter and facebook and empower some other people to update the church pages when needed.
5. I am going to continue to resist Kindle and ipad and all their cousins and just keep reading hard copies of books because I love the feel of a book and the freedom to mark it up.
6. I am going to pray more than I talk about praying.
7. I am going to continue to enjoy spending more time with Lori in this new season of having adult children and I am going to work really hard at being a better parent of adult children and let them be adults instead of treating them like kids.
8. I am going to unsubscribe to almost everyone on my google reader list and start over. I am going to be more proactive about sharing the good stuff I find there with people I know that need it.

     What about you? Do you have a list? What would you add to mine?

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