Now that you are well into the new year, how are you keeping up with those New Year's Resolutions? Do you even remember what those goals were? If not, don't feel bad. Do you realize that with a New Year's Resolution you are attempting to keep a promise to yourself for the next 525,600 minutes? This year, why not make a promise for the next 1,440 minutes. That's 86,400 seconds. 24 hours. 1 day.

This year, make a New Day's Resolution.

Each morning when you wake up:

Set goals for yourself. Whether it's losing those holiday pounds, reading the Bible and praying, or developing a gift or talent, success comes a day at a time. Make sure those goals can be done in one 24 hour period. At the end of each day, look back and thank the Lord if you were successful in accomplishing those goals. Not happy with the day's results? Lord willing, you will have tomorrow to try again.

Set goals for your family. Your spouse and children need you to help them create and accomplish their own daily aspirations. Strive to encourage them to take the day-by-day approach and applaud them at the end of the day for their success.

Set goals for your students, both corporately and individually. Your class as a whole has a basic goal every day: to learn what you teach them. Your challenge for this day and this day alone is to help them fulfill this goal. But more importantly, each student has his or her own individual needs. Keep in mind, it is probably impossible to reach every child every day, so strive to get to know one or two students a little better every day. Then, at the end of the day, record what you discovered so you can follow up the next time you focus on them.

Jesus said in Matthew 6:34, "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." We know what Jesus said is true, but somehow we concern ourselves with not only tomorrow, but also with the days and weeks ahead. Let us follow Jesus' command and realize the peace and joy that can only come by taking one day at a time.