What is it about a new year that feels like a clean slate... that makes you want to set goals...that inspires new resolve in so many? I think that feeling is amplified for me this year with the added ingredients of being in a new state, a new-to-me home, etc.! I think some people have something against new year resolutions...maybe because they tend to be so easily forgotten and left behind. However, I think they can be very helpful. "If we fail to plan, we plan to fail", and I've done that a lot in my life. I've found that, on a daily basis, having a to do list helps me a lot... in terms of getting things accomplished in my day and having a record and feeling good about what was accomplished. If I don't have a list I tend to drift and doodle my day away much more easily, lacking that reminder of things that could use work! If daily lists are helpful, why not yearly ones?
Well, I, like probably many of you have set some goals for this coming year and would like to be faithful in pursuing them!
Some other blogs I've read have shared some of their goals for the year and plan to give monthly up-dates on how they're doing. That sounded like kind of a neat idea to me. I thought it would be fun to share some of mine. I don't feel comfortable sharing all of them in this public forum, however, I'd like to share at least quite a few. And honestly, my life has been a bit consumed with getting settled in and haven't been really focused on the goals (I know, excuses, excuses), but hopefully, once we get fairly arranged I'll really get going. And maybe sharing about them here will give some extra motivation!
I'm going to share a few today and hopefully share some more in the days ahead. Here goes:
Read the Bible in one year. Yes, that can seem rather daunting, but did you know that it brakes down into only about 3 chapters a day? So, I'm I on track at the moment??? No, I must confess I'm already behind, but hopefully not to a degree that I'll not soon recover from. :-) This goal wasn't originally my plan, but Stephen wanted to do it himself and he printed off a copy of an on-line daily break down for me and now I'm on board! The particular plan he found gives you a sections from the Old Testament and New Testament to read each day.
Read one encouraging, edifying, book per month. Right now I'm reading one entitled "At His Feet", which I actually started last year. I'll get the name of the author and post it. The book has been so good and hit me right between the eyes on at least one occasion! I would definitely recommend that one. Stephen and I are reading a great book together entitled "Angola Beloved", which is the autobiography of an Angolan Missionary. I would recommend both of them!
Exercise at least 3 times per week. While we were living at the apartment we were blessed to have free access to their fitness room, which had a lot of great machines and I did some exercising there... sometimes multiple times a week, sometimes not at all. But I would like to become faithful and consistent at it this year. I really haven't done anything since then move... unless you consider carrying around a 20 pound baby and hauling things out of boxes exercise! :-)
I also set some weight goals... which I won't go into in precise detail (I know, you're dreadfully disappointed). But I did set some goals for the next few months...how much I would like to weigh by the beginning of each month. I'm afraid I really packed on some pounds in the last couple years. However over the last several months I've been GENERALLY moving in the right direction... slow as it may be. I'm currently about 5 lbs away from getting back down to my "beginning of pregnancy weight"! That was a big goal for me. However, once I reach it I have to keep right on going because I was quite a bit over what I wanted to be when the pregnancy began, so I've still got a lot of work to do!
Well, I shall leave it at that for this particular post, but there will probably be more to follow, with occasional report on how I'm doing! :-)
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