As I was saying earlier today I need to try to make an effort with my 15 year old sister Alyssa, who lives here. I saw her today up at my grandparent’s when I went to go pick up my battery and I asked her if she wanted to go to the movies tomorrow. She seemed excited! I felt really good about it inside. So, we’re going to go and see What Happens In Vegas, which is a movie I’ve really been wanting to see.
Step 1 has been taken and I feel really good about it.
“I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure, I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know how. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.”
I came across this quote from the late President Gordon B. Hinckley and I think it’s exactly what I needed to read today. I have an entire kitchen table with files and papers and a ton of stuff that I need to do and a part of me wants to turn the other direction and RUN, but I need to not set a goal of accomplishing everything. I need to go and set a timer for 15 minutes and start there. Whatever I get done in that 15 minutes I will be satisfied with. I will feel like I have conquered something and I will feel good about it. If I have it in me I’ll continue on, and I bet I will. Tomorrow morning I will wake up and I will read this quote again and then I will go with a positive attitude and conquer what I’ve put off.
This could qualify under Work’s For Me Wednesday, but I feel like sharing this now. I get stressed out and stressed out really easily. Today I had a table full of papers, a couch full of papers and a weight on my chest that actually hurt. I started out slow and am proud to say there’s no papers on my couch and there’s organized papers on my kitchen table. However, here I sat tonight STILL feeling stressed out. I think it’s the fact that I really have so much to do and it’s scattered in my brain and I’m scared of forgetting important things. So, I did what I love. I wrote a list. It’s a scary list. I have many things that are so important and need to be done yesterday, but still I feel better. I printed it out and it’s hanging on my fridge for me to start in on tomorrow. My goal is to at least accomplish 5 things off of it.
Lists are so wonderful. They really can make you feel so much better.
Parenting: Continue with reading at least 20 minutes per day with Jayden.
Marriage: Smile at my husband more often and not criticize.
Household: Follow every one of Kelly’s Missions this week. Work on 2 loads of laundry/day.
Faith: 15 minutes of scripture reading every single night. Kneeling down to pray every single night. Reading 1 bible story with Jayden out of Little Boy’s Bible Stories every night.
Self: Drink at least 6 glasses of water/day. 8 is a little much for me right now, so I want to start off with 6. Take at least 15 minutes in the evenings to pleasure read after kids are tucked into bed.
Parenting: Work with Jayden on his spelling/reading. Read to/with Jayden for at least 20 minutes every day. Get Jayden’s new Routine/Chore chart set up
Marriage: Watch my attitude with my husband, because Lord knows I can get one. I also want to work on looking at the positive things in our marriage instead of the negative.
Household: Finish Jayden’s room (we’re doing major decluttering in there!!) Detail Clean Master Bathroom.
Work: Get filing done. Anything that needs to be filed HAS to be filed by Friday or I’m going to go INSANE!!!!
Faith: I’ve really slacked on any kind of bible study, but I must say that church yesterday was so motivating and I’m going to set a goal for myself to Read both lessons that I will be learning on Sunday and spend 15 minutes every night reading the BOM.
Self: Tuesday & Thursday go walking & Weds & Friday exercise to cardio video – I have too much stuff going on today to exercise.
Parenting: Buy Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons ~ most of my advice on my WFMW tip request pointed me in that direction, so we’re going to give it a whirl.
Marriage: This week I need to work on thinking before speaking. I say this because lately I’ve been working a lot and the little things that normally wouldn’t bother me are completely bothering me… so, instead of saying some rude little snotty comment I’m going to just stop and take some deep breaths and then hopefully I won’t be so snotty (can you believe I’m actually admitting that I can be snotty?? Who knew?!?!) when addressing the situation.
Household: Work in the current Flylady zone and do ALL missions from Kelly and find a housekeeper to come and deep clean once a week
Work: Get through entire box of stuff that was sent to me
Faith: Read through the lesson that I missed at Relief Society on Sunday since I was a loser and didn’t attend church (horrible of me!)
Self: Drink at least 5 glasses of water/day, finish reading Wednesday Letters, and do at least 20 minutes of exercise
This is my first official goal setting week for 2008. I am going to try something different. I have picked the 5 most important things in my life. I am going to set small goals for each of these things.
Faith: Read through 1 Nephi Chapter 17 in the BOM and write about these chapters on my BOM BLOG
Parenting: Get Jayden back to a structured schedule for after he comes home from school
Marriage: Compliment my husband at least once a day
Home: Not go to bed w/out a clean kitchen and finish ALL laundry
Work: Get new filing cabinet put together and all my files organized in it. Get default notices out.
EDITING TO ADD MYSELF: I will do at least 20 mintues of exercise/day Monday-Friday
So since one of my resolutions was to make weekly goals I’ve decided that every Monday I will post my goals for the week. Since this week I didn’t make this resolution on a Monday I’m going to list a couple goals now that I’d like to see done by Sunday…..
1) Read through Chapter 12 of 1 Nephi in the Book of Mormon – I didn’t accomplish this…I would have but I restarted and am now using a study guide – CLICK HERE
2) Christmas Tree taken down (UGH I hate this part of Christmas)
3) Finish laundry ~ didn’t even get close on this 🙁
4) Spend 30-45 minutes every night teaching Jayden how to read
Okay, so those are simple, little goals. But I want to accomplish my goals so that’s how it’s gonna be :0) Great thing is I’ve already read 3 Chapters of 1Nephi today so I’m a 1/4 way done on my first goal!!
It’s that time of year again. A time where we all make a bunch of goals that we usually don’t make. Last year I didn’t make one. This year I decided what the heck… I’m making some and determined to keep them!
I’ve been pondering over what I wanted my resolution to be all day. I’ve read other’s blogs, I’ve taken account what friends are doing and this is what I’ve come up with:
On Becky’s Blog she talks about focusing on one word and I think this is a great idea. Choosing a word and focusing on it and incorporating it into your life. I like that. So I’ve chosen a word. And it’s a word that I believe will be a great asset and challenge in my life. It’s Faith. I’m starting to go back to church and I think Faith plays a major part in that. Faith plays a major part in my marriage, my parenting, my family. So, I’m going to focus on Faith for the entire year of 2008.
I’m also going to start writing down weekly goals. And keeping track of them on my blog. These goals can vary every week therefore I’m not feeling obligated on focusing on one certain thing all year long. These goals can range from house cleaning, cooking, marriage, church, parenting… all kinds of topics.
One resolution I’d like to keep is starting to do scripture study every night before bed. Even if it’s preparing for the week’s lesson at church just spending quality time w/my scriptures, prayer and our Heavenly Father every day.
I love to hear other people’s ideas and goals, so please comment and let me know what your resolutions are or comment with a link back to your blog talking about your resolutions.