2010 was a little out of control for our family. I can honestly say my favorite parts of 2010 besides my cute little girls were running the triathlon, running 3 5Ks, and learning to make guacamole from my mom. A lot of negative and sad things happened but I have chosen to not focus any more attention on those things. 2011 is going to be better if I have to force it. Today while at a family get together we started to talk about goals for 2011. As I was thinking about what goals to set for myself I automatically started to make the same list as every other year. Lose weight, organize the house, catch up on my scrap booking, family time, etc. (you know the drill) Now after hours of letting those thoughts stew I can honestly say that if I take that approach I am going to fail before this week is over. If I really want to make 2011 better than 2010 (I promise it can only get better) I am going to have to prioritize the things that really matter.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
2011 is going to be my year!!!
So my 2011 goals are drum role please...............
- read the Book of Mormon cover to cover
- have family home evening
-work on liking myself for who I am now not who I think I should be
- work on one personal project a month
So how am I going to do this?
- reading the Book of Mormon: I am going to enlist Eli to do this with me, that way I have someone to answer to.
- family home evening: I am going to get the lesson together on Sunday so after dinner Monday I am not discouraged or running around trying to put something together.
- myself: surround myself with good friends who support and love me for me. I am going to remind myself who I truly am.
- projects: I am never going to get totally caught up on everything that I would like to have done. ie organization or scrap booking. Or get all the books read I tell myself I will, so I am going to do one project done a month. I would also like to read a book a month, but I am promising that is really going to happen.
I know there are things that I will look back on in 2010 with great fondness, and I am sure there will be a lot of lessons learned from the hard times. All we can do is learn from those things and try and be a little bit better, so here is to being a little bit better.
Posted by Nicole at 8:53 PM
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Your honesty about this makes me happy. It's really why I have never liked new years goals, but I am happy for yours and know you can do it!! Take care!
Good luck. You can do this if you keep at it. I hope it really is a wonderful year for you and your family.--Heather Burnham
Thanks for your comment and good luck to you as well. It's such a hopeful time of year when we have plans and goals. Thanks for sharing yours!
Hip Hip Hooray for new beginnings!!! And double Hip Hip Hoorays for chapters ending!!!
You are wonderful and can do anything you set your mind to.
I love you!!!
Hi, Nicole! I love checking in on your blog and I love your New Year's resolutions. Hope you guys are doing great and congrats on your anniversary!
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