Many of us find starting habits like daily Bible reading or prayer daunting—but James Clear in Atomic Habits may offer a way to ease into such habits in such a way that they can become permanent features of our lives.

The church often offers SMART goals as an effective way to help get things done and move you closer to your ultimate purpose—but for me, they often don’t actually end up yielding any results. I offer a different goal-setting acronym (USE PACT) that offers the best of SMART goals while correcting their inability to look at best-practice systems or their undue focus on uncontrollable outcomes.