Rather than have a limited set of New Year's resolutions this year, I thought it might be more fun to have lots of different goals to aim for. It's true that some of these goals are really tasks and some are projects. But I don't think the goal police are going to come get me, do you? I will be evaluating these goals on pretty much of a daily basis using Goalman on my iPhone. The great thing is that I can enter the percentage of each I achieved. So if I do something once a week that I said I would do twice, you guessed it! I'll enter 50%. My friend, Jacqueline, is helping to motivate me by competing with me to see how many of these goals we each achieve in a year's time. We are both aiming for a 75% success rate. That is, if we do 75% of a goal, that's success, and if we accomplish 75 of our 100 goals, that's success, too!
So here are my goals. If you see any of them here that refer to you, maybe you'll help me achieve them! 😉
1.
Purge and
organize basement storage room
2.
Spend one evening a month organizing printed photos into categories
3.
Have
Disney photobook printed
4.
Clean out
office sewing closet
5.
Redo kids’
school notebooks for 2nd semester
6.
Clean
upstairs carpet
7.
Groom dog
completely
8.
See
dentist
9.
Have
youngest’s cavity filled
10. Take dog to vet
11. Organize contents of over-sized art files
12. Work on home photo projects once a month
13. Wash MBR comforter
14. Make 22 meals for the freezer in a day
15. Bake home-milled sourdough bread once a month
16. Work out every day until Cancun
17. Create a motivational plan for kids’ schoolwork
18. Do chores with the kids daily
19. Do at least one load of laundry six days a week
20. Use Family Dinner Fix meal plans 3 times a month
21. Read all Omnibus books scheduled
22. Limit recreational computer time to one hour per day
23. Clean email inbox out daily
24. Make it to court 1 in tennis league at least once
25. Develop tennis serve enough to serve hard every first serve
for at least 1 league
26. Read at least 24 books for recreation
27. Teach piano once a week
28. Practice piano 5 days a week
29. Refuse enough unnecessary purchases to donate $1000 to
charity
30. Train dog 5 days a week
31. Purge my clothes
32. Blog on both blogs once a week
33. Have a family game night once a week
34. Have a family reading/devotion night once a week
35. Finish reading chronological Bible
36. Plan an outing to the winery with friends
37. Plan a trip to Mark Twain Lake
38. Plan a picnic in Sullivan with Mom
39. Read bedtime stories to youngest at least 3 days a week
40. Enforce bedtimes daily
41. Finish filing in the school room
42. Organize all paper inbox materials
43. Organize/purge digital pictures or work on photobooks once a week
44. Clean out main floor freezers
45. Watch at least one full season of Little House on the
Prairie
46. Take friend out for lunch at least four times
47. Organize marriage Bible study
48. Plan Elaina’s birthday party
49. Plan and hold Caleb & Sam’s birthday party
50. Organize a nerf gun war at church
51. Finish and edit The Playbook
52. Get up at 6 a.m. daily
53. Thoroughly clean and organize kids’ bathroom
54. Plan and prepare for next school year
55. Do something for the Happiness Project at least once a week
56. Spend at least 20 hours working on motivational book
57. Purge and organize main floor and basement pantry
58. Plan a family trip to Chicago and Michigan
59. Clean out MBR closet
60. Make a list of potential subjects for What Kids Need to Know
61. Try out for Beauty and the Beast
62. Develop a list of ideas for a speakers series at church
63. Organize and start a ministry to get kids involved in
worship
64. Write and tape another episode of GWN
65. Organize girls’ night out with church friends
66. Organize couples’ night out with church friends
67. Use Wii Fit at least twice a week
68. Use My Fitness Coach at least three times a week or decide
to use something else
69. Have a family movie night at least once a week
70. Create fitness ministry video
71. Help fitness ministry with publicity before I leave
72. Have house clean and orderly before I go to Cancun
73. Spend at least one hour per month purging files from
computers
74. Write at least one hand-written letter per month
75. Spend at least one evening making homemade cards
76. Limit kids’ total media use to no more than 2 hours per day
77. Take the kids somewhere on the train
78. Go on a hot air balloon ride
79. Plan a float trip and stay at cabins with church friends
80. Submit novel to a publisher
81. Draft a women’s Bible study video series idea
82. Go water skiing
83. Complete videography course that I own
84. Practice tennis skills as recommended on video
85. Work through singing videos
86. Sing karaoke with Mom and Fran in public
87. Organize junk journal class
88. Work on junk journal once a week
89. Have another food competition with neighbors
90. Memorize Psalm 34
91. Read College Prep Homeschooling
92. Have niece and fiancée over for dinner
93. Take other niece out for dinner
94. Plan homeschool co-ops for the rest of the year
95. Eat at Dave & Busters
96. Finish retreat publicity
97. Prepare for Idaho retreat
98. Eat 0-5 daily
99. Write devotionals and apply to be a regular writer
100. Write
Creative Connections talk
good luck, have you counted number of hours in a day x a week x month x year? = oh my goodness, may not have time to sleep
My goal is to mail birthday cards on time to every one I know that is having a birthday and to go camping with my daughter and her family. sounds fun to me.
Awesome! Finally a competition I have a chance of winning without not even getting out of the starting gate this time. We will both win, I have no doubt about that. As long as you don’t start subbing “eat icecream” come Dec. 30, 2010…
I think your tough ones are going to be getting the kids to bed on time and limiting their media usage. Might want to go for only 50% on those. LOL
Who’s trying out for Beauty and the Beast? Caleb?
Great list of resolutions. I plan to follow a daily routine to burn calories but it’s hard to resist junk food 🙁
Let me know when you’re coming to Chicago. It would be great to meet up and do something fun. Game suggestion for family game night: Uno flash. My family is addicted to it. Oh and I’ll join you on the winery visit, LOL.
May you reach all your goals for the glory of God! Enjoy each day, you are an inspiration. Hugs.
Mel, What a fabulous list. As always you are an inspiration to me, especially your tender heart that longs to do it all to the glory of God. Blessings in 2010 and beyond!!
Mel, If anyone I know could accomplish a list like this it would be you! I’m sure you will do all those things and more!
All I can say is WOW! I’m getting overwhelmed just reading it, LOL. Actually it’s great to post, to remind yourself of what you have done and what you have left to do. Happy new year friend! 🙂 XO