January 1, 2019

Goodbye 2018!

2018, while exhausting for everyone, was actually a pretty good year here in the Steele household!

• I successfully defended my dissertation proposal in April.
• Our daughter, Eva Joy Steele, was born in July.
• I was hired as the Managing Editor of Anglican Pastor.
• I got to baptize Eva in November.

Useful Tools and Resources

• If you're interested in doing an end-of-the-year review (perhaps instead of New Year's resolutions), I recommend using either Tim Ferriss' or James Clear's format as a guide.
• Quit Facebook and Twitter and give micro.blog a try instead!
• Turn off the TV and use an RSS Reader (like Feedly) to consume information.
• Follow the Farnam Street Blog to learn how to think clearly and make better decisions. Start with their best posts of 2018.
• I need to lose some "new dad weight" in 2019, and I plan to use the Slow Carb Diet to do so.

Questions I'm Pondering

• How can I shepherd my baby daughter well before she can even talk?
• How can the Church better provide formative theological education?
• What resources does the Church need in order to face the challenges of 2019?

Projects I'm Working On

• My dissertation.
• Growing, managing, and editing Anglican Pastor.

One More Thing...

What are you most looking forward to in 2019? Reply to this email and let me know.

Cheers,

~Josh