Weekly Goals

This week has turned into a rather busy week.  We'll see how I do this week with my goals.

1) Be completely caught up in the Titus 2 study by Wednesday's Bible Study (I had surgery which completely threw me off on this one)

2) Drink the 60oz of water a day I was shooting for last week (didn't make it today)

3) Finish the 3 or 4 small sewing projects I have in my pile (mending/hemming)

4) Make & deliver a freezer meal to a friend having surgery

5) Continue adding 2 items per day to my gifts list.

Once again it's not a huge list of goals but I think it will be manageable with everything else I need to accomplish this week (everyday tasks of child rearing and keeping home).

Friday Thoughts

(photo credit: tribulation-now.org)

Week one and I actually made my goal of posting an update :)  Here's how I did on my goals for this week.

1) Finish reading "Mornings on Horseback" - Completed

2) Finish Ethan's red Angry Birds hat - Completed

3) Drink ~ 60oz of water per day - I ended up being closer to 40oz of water, which for me is still good I need to work on remembering to drink water throughout the day

4) Write down at least 2 things per day on my One Thousand Gifts list - Completed (I actually had more than 2 per day)

I've already been thinking about some goals for next week and will hopefully have them finalized and ready to post on Monday.

And now I had another thought I wanted to tack on here at the end.  I've been going thru a Mother/Daughter devotional with my girls and at the end of each week there is a "meditation moment" where the author gives a passage and some thoughts and then has you pray and meditate on that passage to see what God reveals.  Tonight as we were doing this we chose to pray thru the passage.  If you've never tried praying Scripture I'd highly recommend it.  Since, as I mentioned in my previous post, I lose focus easily; praying Scripture helps me to stay focused on praying and also helps me to focus on God and not so much on myself.  If you'd like to try this, the passage we prayed thru tonight is Psalm 139:1-6, a great encouragement to think of God's thoughts toward us.

Goals...New year, New thoughts

Every year I have grand plans to accomplish several goals, and...I fall flat come February or March.  You see, I have an issue with focus, I have none.  Oh, I can stay focused for a week maybe even a couple of months on something and then I just lose interest.  It's not that I don't finish things, I do, but I usually end up taking several months (or years) to actually get back to what I was doing.  I have half finished craft projects, half read books, half written stories for my children....you get the idea.

So, this year I decided that while there are several things I'd love to do and accomplish rather than setting goals for the year I'll set weekly goals.  Many of these weekly goals will focus on finishing some of those half finished projects. :) This may not happen every week (probably won't) as life gets in the way..and did I mention I have a focus problem..yeah, that will get in the way also.  But, this week I have goals! So, I'm using my blog to keep me accountable.  My hope is to report back on Friday to see how I did.  They aren't lofty goals just things I'd like to accomplish this week:

1) Finish reading "Mornings on Horseback" (biography of Theodore Roosevelt)
2) Finish making Ethan's Red "Angry Birds" hat (this was supposed to be done before Christmas)
3) Drink 3 bottles of water each day (my refillable water bottle ~ 60oz daily)
4) Write down at least 2 things each day on my "One Thousand Gifts" list.

There you have it.