I’ve been thinking a lot about goals for the last couple of months, and this year instead of setting goals, I’m choosing areas of focus instead. These are broad and leave room for ideas as the year goes on, but I am starting out with a few specific ideas for each category. Overcome the stronghold…
I started officially tracking habits in 2014 in my very first bullet journal. Since that time, I’ve been tracking habits just about every month (but that doesn’t mean I’ve been DOING the habits, just planning them, hoping I can mostly do them) because I know how much better I do at staying on top of…
As I said in my previous post, this year will have some twists and turns as we care for my mother-in-law as she heads home to be with her Savior. We don’t have a estimated timeline, it could be a ways out there still, and that is why I am holding these goals loosely. If…
I am working on my 2025 goals and will share them next week, but thought first we might need to catch up a bit. 2024 was a good but hard year and I was pretty quiet here on the blog. In January 2024 my father-in-law died and my mother-in-law was a widow for the second…
Each year I set goals in categories: Spiritual, Family (relationships), Home, Work/Ministry, Financial, Physical, and Mind (Education and rest are combined into this category). I am planning this year to share monthly updates with how I’m progressing on most of them (I won’t bore you with all of them), and a more detailed quarterly review…
Each year I set goals in categories: Spiritual, Family (relationships), Home, Work/Ministry, Financial, Physical, Education, and Rest/Recreation. I am planning this year to share monthly updates with how I’m progressing on most of them (I won’t bore you with all of them), and a more detailed quarterly review at the end of each quarter. I…
It’s that time of year: time to review old goals, and roll out the new goals for 2024. Last year I completed 48% of my goals, which is a failure if I go by school grading standards, but is a win if I count it as 48% better than if I didn’t set goals. I…
I’m not sure this will be helpful to anyone, but I was pretty excited with this new plan to help me redeem my time and break some bad habits. I always need a plan that is realistic yet allows me some flexibility. I’ve always wanted a plan or system that takes into account all the…
This year I knew I had to start another Bible read-through. Last year, I read different books of the Bible and bounced around here and there. It proved, again, to me that I do much better with a systematic reading plan. But, I also didn’t want to get bogged down with reading to catch up…
Well, after all the talk, the time has come. I finally decided what pages I want in the front of my bullet journal (still hard after 10 years of setting one up!) and created my first pages for my 2023 bullet journal. What’s funny is after all that stress of what I should do, I…