Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

How to Make This Year Different

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30 min·January 2, 2026

About this Episode

Frustrated by a lack of progress? Chip shares why dependency, not determination, is the key to the lasting change you desire.

Threefold practice for change:

  1. Look BACK
  2. Look UP
  3. Look forward

Key areas to evaluate:

  • Relationship with the Lord
  • Most important relationships
  • Physical health
  • Other relationships
  • Work / Career / Education
  • Personal ministry
  • Emotional health

Set spiritual priority -Mt. 6:33

  • Get in shape spiritually

Don’t go it alone -Ec. 4:12b; Pro. 13:30

Abide in Christ -John 15:5

  • Refuse to rely on sheer willpower, habits, and hacks.

Final thoughts

  • Refuse to COMPARE yourself with other people. -2 Cor. 10:12
  • Refuse to be a PEOPLE pleaser. -Lk. 16:15; Gal. 1:10

Conclusion

  • Evaluate
  • Look back
  • Look up
  • Prioritize

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