It’s the beginning of a new year (actually we are already a month into it!) and like years past, we have made resolutions and objectives to highlight the things we want to accomplish in the new year. If you work for a large company, you are probably in the midst of performance reviews and other self-assessment activities and on several fronts you are asking yourself, “Ok what’s my plan?”

So we begin asking questions, reading internet blogs, renewing our membership with our local gym all in an effort to “start over” to begin anew. It may be a goal to lose weight, read more books or simply spend more time with family but in all cases we are looking for improvement. Something that gives us encouragement. Something we can share about on Facebook. Some hope that our existence is more than simply survival or just getting through the day.

But is change what we really need? After all, is there something wrong with being content in where we are with our bodies or in our relationships? Do we really need to develop yet a new plan for our careers? It seems to me that we are always looking for the next path. We seem to always be in a state of transition.

Not to say that planning for change is a bad thing. I think it is unavoidable. But as I grow in my faith and I continue to learn from my mistakes, I see in myself a desire to stop looking for the radical transformations but to work on the daily changes I can make.