We’re through the first week of 2020, but are we still ready to take on the world? Did we make a resolution that we’ve already failed at keeping? Do we wish we had the stamina to focus and make those desires in our heart a reality as busyness ensues?

Making a resolution is one thing. Keeping it is another.

Instead of making resolutions, I choose one word for the year. It’s a word I will focus on. I will seek to know what meaning it has in my life over the next twelve months. It’s a word I will question God about, expecting Him to answer. It’s a life-changing or challenging word. Or maybe it’s a word of rest and peace. This year, my word is INTENTIONAL

Others choose a Scripture or a mantra to live by for the year.

Are you unsure if you want to make resolutions and try to keep them or choose one word to focus on or maybe do something else entirely? Maybe you want to just avoid all of that and carry on. That’s okay too.

Whatever you choose, I’ve created this list of 20 questions for you to ponder in 2020.

The intent is that they would be eye-opening for you. Reveal something you may not have known about yourself. Pull something you knew from the recesses of your mind into the open for you to seriously consider. Spark a new hope for life going forward. Remind you of a long-lost dream.

The following are some ways to handle the questions:

• Answer one of them per day for the next 20 days and be done.
• Pick two to focus on each month from now through October and write down everything you learn as you answer them. Take November to be thankful for everything you’ve learned and December to recap the year as you’ve journeyed through these questions.
• Ask yourself each question each month this year and see how your answers change over the course of 2020.
• Every other week, write the next question in your journal and spend the next two weeks documenting whatever comes to mind about the questions. These could be things to consider, one word, a quote, a Scripture, free writing, doodling, cutting and pasting from magazines, etc.

However you approach them, I pray you’ll find encouragement, hope, improvement, joy, success, and abundant life as you go through them.

20 Life-Changing Questions to Ask Yourself in 2020

1. Am I who I wanted to be by now? Why or why not?

2. Am I doing what I wanted to do by now? Why or why not?

3. How is my spiritual health?

4. How is my physical health?

5. How is my mental/emotional health?

6. What’s one thing I’d like to change internally (about myself) this year?

7. What steps do I need to take in order to make that change happen?

8. What’s my WHY?

9. What have I wanted to do forever but never done?

10. What do I enjoy doing? What are my passions?

11. What would I do if I had the resources/knowledge/time to do it?

12. What is one step I can take today to making my dream a reality?

13. What excuses am I using instead of making things happen?

14. Do I want to be made well or do I want to continue being a victim or stuck in my uncomfortable comfort zone for yet another year?

15. How are my relationships? Seriously.

16. Who would I like to improve my relationship with the most?

17. What’s one thing I can work on to improve that relationship?

18. Do I isolate myself from others? If so, why do I do this?

19. When is the last time I did something I enjoyed just to relax and enjoy it? Why has it been so long?

20. Where would I like to go on vacation, and how can I change my budget to make that happen?

For a printable PDF version of this list, click here.

What have you chosen to focus on in 2020? We’d love to hear from you in the comments below!