Hey we're in Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.

And today we're going to talk about goal setting and why it's good for your marriage.

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to all of our episodes as we launch them. So today we're going to be talking about goal setting.

And it's something that Jennifer and I have done since the beginning of our marriage.

For 11 years now we do it every year. Sometimes we do huge goals throughout the year.

We check up on the goals as we go. What we've loved doing them because it allows us to

operate in goals and plans and organize our year and our calendars around these goals.

And today we're going to talk about why setting goals in your marriage is good for your marriage.

We have some practical tips on how to do it. And then we're also going to end with some

spiritual ways we should be thinking about the goals that we do set. So let's just jump right in.

So first let's talk about some of the reasons why goal setting is good,

invaluable and healthy and just all around a good thing for a marriage.

Well the first thing that I thought of was security. You have the security and marriage and

in your relationship because you know where you're going. A good friend of mine when we were

talking about raising young kids told me you know your kids will ask you throughout the day.

What's next mommy because they want to know and when you have the answer for them when you can

supply them with a strategy and a place that they're going or a thing that they're doing they

have peace and they have security and knowing that well mom knows what's going on. Dad knows what's

going on. And so when I look at that in regards to marriage I just think like how much security we've

experienced in our own relationship even when things were rocky because we knew where we were going.

We knew what was coming next and we knew how to prepare for it. Yeah and we have a friend that

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