Skipping the Goal Planning this Year

A note from your Broker -

Happy New Year, ConnCrete family! I hope your Christmas and New Years season has been a time with some relaxation and rest. If it's been more busy than relaxing, I hope you take some time this January to recuperate a bit if you desire that.

I love this time of year! I love winter. I love a little bit of hibernation, hot drinks and blankets. I love snowshoeing and ice fishing. I also deeply love goal planning, setting intention for the year, and reflecting on the previous months and year. For the past ten-ish years since being out of college (crazy it’s been that long.. uffda!), I’ve had a structured time of setting goals each December or January. It’s always been refreshing for this organized, type-a planner. It’s something I look forward to. 

Tomorrow Aaron and I have our annual getaway where we reflect on the last year and dream about the year ahead. Normally I would never draft a blog about our annual goal planning. Our life is fairly private beyond sharing a few things we’ve got going on throughout the year, but this year goal setting looks a little different for me. While we will still have our annual discussion, I’m not setting rigid annual business goals or really business ‘goals’ at all. Any business or type-a personalities can gasp right now. I’m gasping a bit myself! I think because it feels very countercultural to say out loud as the leader of a business.

We still have things we’d like to do this year and we do have plans for the business, but our posture around them is not so rigid. I truly don’t feel like they’re our plans or ideas. I think they’re things we’re excited about because the Lord has put them on our heart. But we will approach the year with open hands trying our best to let the Lord lead us. 

There are so many things that will come and go this year. Exciting projects and things we don’t even foresee right now that the Lord will place in our path to do and I pray we will do them. But the truth is that over the last several years since we got married, we could not have planned or even have imagined we would be where we are today. Meeting Aaron, getting married, having not one, but two babies, Aaron getting his license, starting a brokerage together, buying/selling real estate and so much more. I'm sure you can relate! The last several weeks gearing up for this getaway I’ve thought ‘why do we plan the year in January when the year honestly looks little like what we planned? Why not just follow the Lord as He instructs.’

So that’s the plan or lack of plan. I feel so in a season of intentionality and soaking in each day. I also am reminded of this verse - “Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.”” James‬ ‭4‬:‭13‬-‭15‬ ‭

I don’t care where I am next year at this time as long as I’m where God wants me. I want to set my interests aside for God‘s interests and be on purpose for Him, be in relation with Him, and bring Him glory.

“Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ”. ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭3‬:‭8‬ ‭

So in 2025, I hope we remember that each day is a day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it! Psalm 118:24. 

We look forward to serving this community! We look forward to earning your trust and referrals. And we look forward to approaching each day with our hands wide open to what the Lord has for us. I pray we don’t leave that behind when days get busy. I hope you also feel encouraged not to make too many plans or be too hurried.

Thank you Pastor Jay at The Church in the Pines, for preaching today on this topic. It was so consistent with what has been on my heart. 

Much love to everyone this year!

Taylor Conn