I came up with 12 goals I’d like to accomplish next year with the hopes of being able to cross one off my list per month to make them more manageable. I thought a great way to hold myself accountable to the things I want to accomplish this year would be to do a weekly update.
After all, we all need a little help staying motivated sometimes. Here’s how I am doing so far:
1. Clean, de-clutter and organize my entire home in 30 days or less. – Sweet mother of all things good in this world! I have actually spent at least an hour each day this past week clearing out and organizing our crap. It.Feels.Awesome.
2. Fit into the same jeans I wore 8 years ago when we moved into our house. – To be completely honest, I am one lazy woman. I don’t like to exercise. At least not in the traditional sense. So how am I going to fit into those jeans? Easy, I bought a pedometer. Word on the street if you walk at least 10,000 steps a day you’ll drop the weight. I just started using my pedometer last Sunday and so far so good. {I’ll write more about this later}
3. Travel. – The Girl and I are hatching a plan to blow this Popsicle stand.
4. Send my daughter to college without having a nervous breakdown thus spending a week in bed sobbing.
5. Get 3 new teeth. 😉
7. Finish this primitive folk art rug I started 4 years ago. – This past week I finished 2 stars and started working on the border a wee bit.
8. Family Day. Do one thing together as a family every Sunday. Last Sunday we went to the movies and saw Saving Mr. Banks. Oh my word was it AWESOME. If you love Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, Walt Disney or Mary Poppins, you will LOVE,LOVE,LOVE this movie!
9. Secret Plan #1
10. Secret Plan #2
11. Secret Plan #3
12. Convince the HH we should buy a Salt Box Style House in Colonial Williamsburg.
13. Spend at least 1 hour a day working in my garden. – I spent 6 of the last 7 days in the garden which is not too shabby considering the ground is frozen. 🙂
So there you have it. How about YOU? How are your 2014 goals coming along?
~Mavis
P.S. YES, I know I wrote down 13 goals. I’m fairly certain I won’t be able to attain one of them. {gee, I wonder which one?} 
But I wanted to add it in there anyway because I believe in miracles.
Jody Graves says
Speaking as a William and Mary alum, I think if your daughter does to W&M you could “kill two birds with one stone”.
I love Colonial Williamsburg too…and having it as my home for four years was life altering. The colonial garden design is very inspiring. Even if you don’t wind up with a home in Williamsburg, you can bring the design elements of the garden to your own backyard. I think you have done some of it….the geometric herb garden designs are really fun. Consider a fence with one of those cool ball and chain opener thingys, lots of picket fences, and a hedgerow maze perhaps?
Ruth Ward says
I didn’t make one new year resolution. I made a few about 3 years ago. 1. Pay off our house before I retire. This plan is doing well and is ahead of schedule. 2. Lose weight. This plan is not going so well. 3. Do a few things on my bucket list. One is walk to a place that is far away as in several miles. Kind of like Forest Gump. There are many people in my family that are dead set against this plan. So it is an up hill battle. Another is to put solar panels on our property. Another uphill battle, because my better half thinks this a foolish and wasteful plan. As I look at it, it is about as wasteful as planting 50 lbs of seed potatoes with no where to store the results (over 300 lbs of potatoes) .
Nancy says
Last year my goal was to walk, run, hike 1000 miles above and beyond my normal daily walking, and I accomplished that (down to the wire, but I met my goal) with the help of that same pedometer. I had bought one 7 years ago and loved it, and when it finally stopped working in the middle of the year, I needed a new one to keep me on track for my goal. I considered all the newer options that sync up online and such, and in the end, I bought the very same pedometer I’d used for so many years. It was just easier to deal with, didn’t need to be synced or charged, etc, and hey, the last one worked for 7 years!
This year’s goal is to do the 1000 miles again. I figure after two years of it, it will just become my normal daily life, right?
Ruth Ward says
Nancy, I’m proud of you for achieving your goal. And for not caving in to the techno crap and getting the same kind of pedometer that work for 7 years. May you get another 7 years out of this one.
Laura Ingalls Gunn says
After spending my break from college viewing food related documentaries on Netflix I decided I had had enough of high fructose corn syrup and soybean oil. I just wrote a post of 5 things I am trying to change not to be a size 2 or 4 but to just be healthier. One of mine is indeed using a pedometer. May we both meet our goals in 2014.