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114 – Achieve your Money Goals in 2024! Step 1 – SET YOUR LESSONS with 5 Questions

Jan 02, 2024 • 23 min 44 sec

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Setting goals is easy. Achieving goals is tough.

You CAN achieve your faithful money goals in 2024 by applying 4 powerful steps!

I delve into an overview of the four steps I will be guiding you thought and show you how to boldly accomplish the first powerful step – SET YOUR LESSONS. By evaluating last year in three key questions, you’ll gain insights to make wiser and more faithful money choices. Join me in this series, and let’s make this year the one where you SET AND ACHIEVE your faithful money goals.


In this episode, John discusses:

  • The importance of setting goals
  • Overcoming the failure rate
  • Reflecting on past financial experiences for improved decision-making
  • Overview of successful money goal achievement

Key Takeaways:

  • Setting financial goals is easy, but achieving them requires a strategic approach and commitment
  • Alarming statistic that 92% of New Year’s goal-setters never reach their objectives.
  • To improve your money goal achievement, embrace four essential steps of lessons, vision, mission and values
  • Reflect on your financial past, capture valuable insights, and learn from successes and failures using three key questions.
  • Acts 6:1-7, encourages your goal-achievement the disciples’ clarity in vision, commitment to their mission, and alignment with values showcase the biblical foundation

“I truly believe that God wants us to be green and growing, not ripe and rotting. He wants us to always be growing closer to Him, closer to those around us, and closer to the plans that He has for us. And you better believe that you have a unique role in His greater story and a unique objective that He has for you and the financial resources that He has put in your hands.”



Additional resources:

Let’s continue the conversation!

Connect to Smarter Stewardship at https://smarterstewardship.com/ and gain access to resources that will help you stay in the loop for resources that will actively help you shape your financial future.

If you’re interested in growing in your faith, wealth, and life, visit https://changeforyourdollar.com/ for all the tools you need from coaching and speaking to my latest book, He Spends, She Spends!

If this blessed you today, please Subscribe, Leave a Review, and Share with someone who you believe will benefit from this message!

Contact John:
Website: https://changeforyourdollar.com/
Website: https://smarterstewarship.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smarterstewardship
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smarterstewardship

Setting goals is easy. Achieving goals is tough.

You CAN achieve your faithful money goals in 2024 by applying 4 powerful steps!

I delve into an overview of the four steps I will be guiding you thought and show you how to boldly accomplish the first powerful step – SET YOUR LESSONS. By evaluating last year in three key questions, you’ll gain insights to make wiser and more faithful money choices. Join me in this series, and let’s make this year the one where you SET AND ACHIEVE your faithful money goals.


In this episode, John discusses:

  • The importance of setting goals
  • Overcoming the failure rate
  • Reflecting on past financial experiences for improved decision-making
  • Overview of successful money goal achievement

Key Takeaways:

  • Setting financial goals is easy, but achieving them requires a strategic approach and commitment
  • Alarming statistic that 92% of New Year’s goal-setters never reach their objectives.
  • To improve your money goal achievement, embrace four essential steps of lessons, vision, mission and values
  • Reflect on your financial past, capture valuable insights, and learn from successes and failures using three key questions.
  • Acts 6:1-7, encourages your goal-achievement the disciples’ clarity in vision, commitment to their mission, and alignment with values showcase the biblical foundation

“I truly believe that God wants us to be green and growing, not ripe and rotting. He wants us to always be growing closer to Him, closer to those around us, and closer to the plans that He has for us. And you better believe that you have a unique role in His greater story and a unique objective that He has for you and the financial resources that He has put in your hands.”



Additional resources:

Let’s continue the conversation!

Connect to Smarter Stewardship at https://smarterstewardship.com/ and gain access to resources that will help you stay in the loop for resources that will actively help you shape your financial future.

If you’re interested in growing in your faith, wealth, and life, visit https://changeforyourdollar.com/ for all the tools you need from coaching and speaking to my latest book, He Spends, She Spends!

If this blessed you today, please Subscribe, Leave a Review, and Share with someone who you believe will benefit from this message!

Contact John:
Website: https://changeforyourdollar.com/
Website: https://smarterstewarship.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smarterstewardship
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smarterstewardship

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