I haven’t made any New Year’s resolutions, per se. However, at the start of this new year, I have been rather contemplative and have several goals I’m working toward.

In general, I’m working at becoming more disciplined, both in my spiritual life and in other areas. I’m trying to become more diligent in studying the Word, memorizing Scripture, and generally reading, watching, and listening to more things that are edifying. I want to be more purposeful in studying and improving in the things I’m interested in, such as web design and photography.

To sum it up, I want to spend my time wisely, to live to the fullest serving God and others, to grow and advance, both in my walk with God and in my hobbies and interests. I want to be able to look back at the end of this year and see ways I’ve done these things, to see ways I’ve grown and changed and things I’ve learned.

It’s also been a time of reminiscing, thinking over ways I’ve changed over the last year, and even two years. I can see ways I’ve examined standards and preferences we have, and adopted my own. Not that I didn’t do that before, but I’ve fine-tuned them a lot in the past year. Though, in some ways, I feel like I’m turning into an old fogey, especially when I realize I’m almost 24.

Oh, and another thing I want to work on this year: getting to sleep at a reasonable hour. I had started getting to bed and getting up earlier several months ago, but, well, old habits die hard.