I wrote a meandering post about my goals about a month ago, but I felt like I needed to write something that was a little more organized.
My first two are not SMART (Specific, Measurable, Agreed Upon, Realistic, Time-Based) But maybe I can reword them to make them more so.
- Focus on the joy of mothering (ironically, I hear whining coming from downstairs as I write this and I'm having to take a couple of deep breaths before I deal with it.)
- Have a loose schedule to give us something fun to do every day. Walks, library day, play group, etc that lets me focus on my kids.
- Give my 3 year old (heretofore known as "Fuzzhead") some one-on-one time, at least 30 min sans cellphone, every day. This should usually happen during the baby's (heretofore known as "Treeleafy") afternoon nap.
- Try to include Fuzzhead in my chores. He wants to earn money to buy upgrades to his apps (yes, seriously) so I told him he could do that by helping me with my chores.
- Include Scripture Study in my daily routine.
- This includes reading the the LDS standard works, General Conference Talks, and Sunday School and Relief Society Manuals.
- Can be completed at any time during the day, but I'd like to start getting up earlier to get in done first thing. First I have to get myself to go to bed earlier.
- Perfection would be doing it every single day, but I just don't think I can do that. In High School and College I was amazing at this, but my time was my own. Anything I did I had, in one way or another, agreed to do and did so because I wanted to. I have kids now and my time is not all my own. So, I'm shooting for an average of 6 days/week by December.
- Read 52 books
- This includes all of my own-but-haven't-read fiction
- Any of the above books I haven't read by the end of the year will be given to Good Will, because this is the second year I've had this goal. If I hadn't read them by the end of this year, I really don't care about them that much.
- One per week, this include audiobooks.
- Run a half marathon, and include strength training.
- I plan on doing this towards the end of the year
- We (my husband really) got an adjustable weight kettle bell for Christmas, so if anyone has some good kettle bell workouts, let me know
- CPR certification
- As I mentioned last month, I have to wait until Treeleafy can go without me for a while before I can take care of this.
- Usually MWR offers this 5 or 6 times I year, so I just need to call the gym and find out when.
- Rock the Cheesecake
- Pretty self explanatory. Maiden Voyage for my birthday.
- Call an old friend
- I realized recently that Facebook actually kind of sucks for genuinely helping you keep in touch with friends. It appraises you of the major happenings in each other's lives, but that's not where real relationships happen. So, I decided to use my phone for its original purpose and call people. People do it so rarely now that unlimited Talk is the norm.
- At least once, maybe twice a month.
- If you get a call from me, it's not just to check this off the list, but because I like you and want to actually keep in touch.
- Also, if you might like to talk to me, live and in person on the phone, go ahead and send me your phone number in a private FB message Don't leave it in a public forum, that's not safe.
There we go. Should keep me busy.
What are you working on this year?
I LOVE this! One of my goals last year was to read my scriptures daily and I accomplished it (mainly...I've missed a few days here or there)! It's made a huge difference. And for the first time ever we've been pretty consistent with family scripture study (like 4 times a week). My goals this year are to read the Sunday School scriptures and the Relief Society lesson before church every week. And to write more....I've already been bad at it. I think my Goodreads goal is 30 books? And then these aren't resolutions, but this week I've tried to work on my temper and be nicer to "Buddy." And this pregnancy my goal is to gain 36 lbs instead of the 46 lbs I gained with #1.
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