I’m ashamed to admit I used to trust Jesus for the forgiveness of my sins while trusting the world for advice on my goals. And while, by God’s grace, I was crushing some of my goals, other goals were crushing me. I used to feel:

• Shame over “wasting” time on things that didn’t pan out
• Overwhelm that I blamed on others but (I hated to admit) was mostly self-imposed 
• Discouragement at the never-ending gap between vision and reality
• Fear that I’d never fully live up to my God-given potential
• Guilt knowing God loves me equally on my most and my least productive days but living like what Christ accomplished for me on the cross wasn’t enough

So I turned to the four gospel biographies to understand how Jesus pursued his goals.

There, I uncovered seven biblical principles for achieving my goals with Christlike confidence, consistency, and character. And as I sought to follow Jesus’s example in a modern context, I developed dozens of practices to help me pursue my goals with God, like God, and for God.

I wrote Redeeming Your Goals to help you do the same.

To be more specific, this book will help you:

• Gain confidence that your goals are (or are not) aligned with God’s will
• Get clarity on what you want most in this season—professionally and personally—and which goals you can be at peace ignoring
• Achieve a lot more by doing a lot less and lightening the load on your soul, to-do list, and hurried calendar
• Find the time to make consistent progress on your goals
• Build simple systems for breaking massive goals into manageable chunks
• Create new habits overnight and stick with them even when you don’t feel like it
• Discern when to quit a goal, pivot your strategy, or persevere through the messy middle
• Be fully present at work and at home while you’re working on your goals
• Kill comparison and trade the world’s scorecard of success for Jesus’s so you can experience joy in success or failure

Redeeming Your Goals is available October 13. Pre-order by August 17 and join my Redeeming Your Goals Coaching Community for free!

Choose Redemptive Quests

In chapter 1, I’ll challenge you to leave the comfort of your metaphorical home, get in your car, and choose redemptive quests—goals pursued with God, like God, and for God. 

Baptize Your Imagination

The scriptures in chapter 2 will baptize your imagination about how far you can go on your quest and inspire you to set epic Long-Term Goals you’re confident are aligned with God’s will. In the process, we’ll examine a surprising paradox that the bigger your goals, the easier and more spiritually fruitful they are likely to be.

Order Your Steps

Chapter 3 will empower you to order your steps to your Long-Term Goals by helping you choose the best, most Christlike route to your destination and then break your road trip into small stretches of driving you can knock out consistently. 

Lighten Your Load

In chapter 4, we will lighten your load for your quest by popping the trunk of your car and tossing out the nonessential rocks on your to-do list and calendar that are weighing you down and slowing your progress. 

Trust God and Get Going

Then, in chapter 5, I’ll show you how to trust God and get going in your quest. Because Scripture doesn’t call us to put our cars on cruise control and let “Jesus take the wheel.” God determines the results of our goals, but our job is to drive: to show up faithfully each day and hone the habits God is likely to use to produce fruit. 

Maneuver the Messy Middle

In chapter 6, I’ll help you maneuver the messy middle—the inevitable point in any quest when momentum slows, results disappoint, and resistance increases. Looking to Jesus’s example, you’ll learn how to confidently discern if you’ve reached a cul-de-sac and need to quit your goal, a detour and need to pivot your strategy, or a pothole and simply need to persevere.

Measure Upward, Backward, and Forward

Finally, in chapter 7, we’ll see how the world’s way of measuring success suffocates you with striving, crushes you with comparison, and slays you with self-doubt. We’ll replace that toxic approach with Jesus’s life-giving model for measuring progress until you complete your redemptive quest. 

That’s where we’re going in this book. Are you in? Pre-order by August 17 and you can join my Redeeming Your Goals Coaching Community for free!

My Redeeming Your Goals Coaching Community is a 7-week virtual cohort with the accountability, coaching, and community you need to make meaningful progress on your goals. Here's how it works:

• You’ll receive a limited edition advance copy of Redeeming Your Goals in audiobook, paperback, and/or PDF before the book even drops. 
• Each week, I’ll ask you to read one chapter of the book and complete one small challenge to implement what you read.
• As you read, you’ll have the ability to get unlimited coaching from me (not my assistant or AI) and the community in a private online forum.
• Each chapter will conclude with a weekly 1-hour Zoom where you can share wins, ask me questions, and workshop challenges in Christian community.

Access to future cohorts of the Redeeming Your Goals Coaching Community will cost $247. But if you pre-order Redeeming Your Goals by August 17, you can join the first cohort absolutely free. Click here to learn more and sign up!

"This is the very first time I have ever gotten through a book about goals, finished the book, have a long-term goal, strategies and next steps. I'm already telling people about it and will be handing them out like candy. THANK YOU!" —⁠Mattie C.

"Spot on! Jordan fabulously yet succinctly lays out the need for and the steps for creating and measuring Christ-centered goals. It’s part workbook, part credo and all Godly wisdom. It’s theologically sound and yet it’s brief and lighthearted, which really helps make the ideas, principles and practices sticky. A great read, but an even greater handbook as you redeem your life goals." —⁠Ryan J.

"An excellent practical guide for how to set and succeed at your goals, in a Biblical way. A powerful blend of the Why along with the How." —⁠Brian T.

"For fans of Redeeming Your Time, Redeeming Your Goals is like being handed an ice cold sweet tea on a hot summer day. The practical steps that he outlines (in typical Jordan Raynor bullet-list fashion) marry strong theology with pragmatic principles to take you through the visualization, organization, execution, pivot, perseverance, and finally the spiritual success we enjoy by redeeming our goals in the model of Jesus. The book has so many takeaways, that even if you implement just a few of the practices (there’s 58 in all), it will have tremendous value." —⁠John T.

"When I read Redeeming Your Time, I thought I had finally found the best book on productivity from a biblical perspective ever written. I reread it every year. But Redeeming Your Goals quite possibly tops it! RYG answered all the questions I still had after RYT, and more!" —⁠Jana C.

"This is a great book for those of us who struggle with understanding our goals. What should we pursue? How should we pursue it? How do we stay on top of it without getting more stressed out? All of those questions and more are answered. I'll definitely need to read this again, and again, and again, as I navigate life. It's THAT helpful." —⁠Jillian J.

"The book felt like engaging in a conversation with someone who genuinely wanted to help me succeed. I will be returning to this book again and again as I work through my goals. Highly recommend." —⁠Alexa T.

"Redeeming Your Goals is a practical guide to setting and achieving business and personal goals while keeping what matters most—God—at the forefront. Written in Raynor’s candid, approachable voice with a dash of humor, it provides not only countless practical tips, but also many deep ideas to mull over and implement as well." —⁠Misty N.

"Redeeming Your Goals is the first book I’ve read on goal-setting that doesn’t pull me deeper into self-help, but pulls me deeper into Christ. If you’re tired of goal-setting books that leave you feeling more pressure than purpose, this is the one to read. Jordan doesn’t point you to better systems; he points you to a better Savior. And in the process, he provides a way to pursue meaningful goals without losing your soul." —⁠Joe K.

“An incredibly practical and gospel-centered guide to pursuing goals with Christlike character. The content was so helpful that I kept re-reading. A deeply encouraging and clarifying book for anyone wanting to pursue goals with God, not just for him.” —⁠Jesleen L.

"Redeeming Your Goals offers insight, clarity and God-centered practical advice about goals in a fresh, thought-provoking and easy-to-read format. It was refreshing to know that I'm not the only one that sometimes gets bogged down trying to discern "God's will" for me—that silence from the Almighty is not a bad thing. Just like Redeeming Your Time, this book is one that you will want to highlight and go back to time after time because it is so chock full of practical and enlightening life hacks." —⁠Kim N.

Want to read and apply the book with fellow believers like these? Pre-order by August 17 and join my Redeeming Your Goals Coaching Community for free!