What's Your WIG?

As we rush toward a New Year, you need a wig, a WIG, a W.I.G.

At a recent BETTER: Renewal & Sermon Planning Retreat that TJI conducts (contact us for more details on these) an elder we love and respect and who served as our outside resource for the event offered this powerful encouragement:  put forth: “I would strongly encourage you to sit down before the end of the year and just write down the five or six things that went really well during the year. Really well. And write down why they went well. Whatever they may be, just write them down. And then write down the four or five things that just, it wasn't necessarily for lack of time, but they were flops. I don't mean some program, I mean something you were trying to accomplish in your goals and in your own growth. Write that down. And then before you start the new year, take the good ones, decide which of them should be carried forward and part of your ministry long term. And put them down and think about how they can be great again.”

In a couple of days from there I was listening to a podcast and heard the acronym WIG and thought the two seemed to run along parallel paths. 

In the business world, a WIG stands for a Wildly Important Goal. It’s a term mainstreamed in the book “The 4 Disciplines of Execution” by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling.

A WIG is the single top-priority goal you intentionally elevate above all the others — because achieving it makes the biggest difference. It’s “wildly important” because it demands focus, clarity, and execution.

So…what’s your WIG?

It seems easy for some to just pass from one year to the next without much reflection, to just hit repeat. But as Socrates said: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” And the Scriptures implore us over and over to examine our lives.

As this year closes and a new one approaches, we invite you to join us in using these two simple tools — looking back with honesty and moving forward with intentionality — to consider your path.

May 2026 be your best year ever!

"Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves" (2 Corinthians 13:5).

"Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure” (Proverbs 4:26).