Welcome to God-centered success, where it's all about empowering you to thrive in faith and business.

I am your host, Mia Renee, and today we're getting into another powerful topic that will empower you

to keep God at the center of everything that you do as an entrepreneur, as a leader, and as an influencer.

Let's get into today's show.

All right, today I'm so excited because we're going to talk about the power of goal setting today.

Now, there's a couple reasons I want to bring this up today.

It's the beginning of the new year.

This is the time to set goals and intentions for the year.

But I don't know about you.

If you have had a challenge like I have the last five

years since following Jesus and being a woman of faith, I have struggled with my relationship

with goal setting. I used to be a big goal setter and I would either hit my goals, sometimes

exceed them, or fall short of my goals, but just by the fact of setting the goal, I got a lot

farther along in business and in different areas of my life with fitness, health, all that

kind of stuff than I would have if I hadn't set a goal. Yet the last five years, as a believer,

I've struggled with setting goals, sometimes feeling like, well, who am I to set a goal?

Am I going against God's plans? Because these are my

plans. I don't want to put my plans out there. I want God's plans to come to pass. And so,

the Bible has a lot to, a lot to say about, especially in the book of Proverbs, about us planning our

ways and who's really ultimately in control, which is God.

But planning our ways is something that we do. That is something that we are designed to do.

It's in us. It's okay to set goals and make plans and go for it. You know, if you've been

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