Slow Down, Please!
How is it March already? Where is the time going? I honestly am having a hard time keeping up! It seems like yesterday I was celebrating and making goals for the New Year, and today I wake up and IT IS MARCH! And, I have yet to post my goals for the New Year on my blog! I have been meaning to, but time seems to be in a race with my to do list, and well it is obvious who is winning that race.
There is never a better time than the present to catch up on some things though, right? Including posting my goals for 2010 to my blog.
Thankfully, I can say that I have either started on or accomplished some of these goals already. However, there are some that I have yet to focus on, and sadly some of those are the ones that I would consider to be most important. I have to start somewhere though, and I will continue to grow and learn, and see each day as a new start! Some of those “new starts” will be slow and wobbly, while others will be steady and well-balanced! Either way, I will persevere and strive to live out the purpose that God has planned for me!
Here are my set goals for 2010:
2010 Goals
*Keep My Focus on God
*My Own Personal Quiet Time (15 min/day)
*Marriage Related Bible Study w/ Joseph
*Learn/Memorize 20 Bible Verses As a Family
*Create a Prayer List
*Adopt a Widow as a Family Ministry Project
*Build and Follow a Daily Schedule
*Build a Chore Chart/Reward Chore Bucks
*Start Planning and Utilizing Weekly Menus
*Plan School (day for day)/ Planning Time on Weekends
*Character Traits (Myself/Children)
*Build a Chart; Possibly Purchase a Character Training Curriculum
*Start Teaching the children more life skills
*Teach Alex how to cook 2 “meals”
*Spend more 1 or 1 time with each child
*Change Diet: More Veggies/Fruits/Whole Grains/Water
*Visit and buy Produce/Meat/Herbs/Eggs/Possibly Milk from local farmers
*Make a Daily Nutritional Supplements List for everyone and buy them
*Start eating all meals at the dining table with the children again
*Read The Bible to them while we eat
*Start our weekly movie/game night again
*Read Bed Time Stories to the children again
*More Crafts and Hands on Learning for the children
*More Field Trips
*Buy a Keyboard/Learn To Play (Myself/Children)
*Pay off 2 bills
*Monetary Savings Account = or < 10,000 by Jan. 2011
*Remodel Minden home/Be finished by September 2010
*Wake Up Before Joseph
*Make Him Breakfast
*Add more skirts and dresses to wardrobes (Mine/Girls’)
*Create a Reading List
*Create a Books to Buy List
*Re-acquaint myself with FlyLady
*Also Create a Companies Coming Cleaning/Supply Checklist *Complete Herbal Course by January 2011
*Write Letters and Reconnect with friends and loved ones
*Exercise 3X’s/week, 20 min/session
*Make 2 new friends
*Buy Dehydrator/Learn about storing food
*Start storing food
*Smile/Laugh More
*Blog more often
Yeah, your goals are up before mine!
April