Each Year I set goals for myself. I am very goal oriented so making goals for myself keeps me motivated. Last year I accomplished 2 of my 3 goals. My biggest accomplishment was setting a goal to read 12 books because I hated reading. I finished at reading 127 books in 2008! I am now a lover of reading, and I am confident that reading will now always be another love in my life. I made a goal to exercise more and I did. I could still step it up and still plan to make that apart of my life as well. Brian also bought me wii fit recently, which will also help me to keep this a good habit in my life.
I am sad however that I did not accomplish goal 3 so I am adding it to my goals for 2009. I would like to take some type of class at a community college, maybe a cooking one, maybe a photography one, or I might even think about picking up a class to start towards my master's in counseling. I am not sure yet but this goal takes top priority since I failed to accomplish it last year.
Second, I have tons of notes from sermons in notebooks that are just sitting in a drawer. So my goal is to go through those notebooks type the ones that I want to keep, file them in my filing cabinet and pitch the notebooks. My Woman's Ministry professor had us start a file system in our classes and that has stayed apart of my life. Brian bought a nice filing cabinet on our first Christmas for all my materials and I go to it often! If someone calls me looking for a poem or some notes on a subject such as forgiveness or prayer I run to my filing cabinet. That is why I want to get those notes typed up and filed away.
That's it. I am only setting 2 goals for myself this year. There is so much more that I want to accomplish such as lowering our grocery budget, take better care of my skin, focus more on managing my home but I don't want to have so many that it becomes unrealistic to meet them. I also think of how in 2008 I accomplished so much that wasn't on my goal list like starting to cut coupons, trying new recipes, gaining weight. So obviously I am not limited to only working on these two goals. Keep my motivated friends! Happy New Year! I hope you have a wonderful 2009.
2 comments:
well, clearly you need to decide where you are going to take a class and what semester or term you plan on attending. . . so. . . let's hear it. If you wanna complete a class you better get to researching. Love ya!
Those sound like good goals. I made a couple for myself. I'm not sure if I'll add to the list or just stick with what I have. My first one is no candy for a year. I was gonna say no ice cream either, but I have to take small steps :) Denying myself ice cream is too big a leap :) And my second one is no snacking after 8pm. The candy one has been perfect so far, but I kinda forgot about the snacking one a couple times. Oh well! :) I'll keep working at it anyway. Love you, Janelle!
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