A Great way to think about keeping Goals for 2012

Making resolutions that actually stick! Read through...very insightful!

Love this part...I am going to start trying to set clock 2 min. earlier each morning, because I hate waking up before 7am!  Hate it, hate it, hate it!!!  Love the weight loss goal too!!


I am going to use my sister and my BFF as my accountability people.  (and whoever wants to check in with me would be helpful as well)


So, my big goals for the year are:

• lose 30lbs.  once and for all, 5lbs. a month is a good target
• be more encouraging, not discouraging
• get our trademark going, Ag Life, stickers, hats, shirts
• make and perfect at least 6 kinds of soap for etsy.com sales
• clean out kitchen and simplify it
• run 1/2 marathon November in St. Petersburg at my lowest weight in a long time
• make a calendar for print with Judy for 2013.  (we can do this)
• make 2 new healthy dishes a month to add to our favorites list
• be more in His word everyday
• 16x40 pool or 5 acres!  (I know for fetched, but worth trying for)

"Failure is Impossible"

~Susan B. Anthony

"1. Kaizen—baby steps, baby.

As I mention in project 47 of One Bite, kaizen is a Japanese word that means very small, continuous change. It’s little drips of water that fill a bucket over a long period of time, not a firehose in a few minutes.

What does it have to do with reaching goals? It’s easiest to see kaizen in action with the goal to wake up earlier:

First, set your alarm for one hour earlier tomorrow morning, and see how you feel. Not so great, perhaps.

Now, set your alarm for two minutes earlier, and see how you feel. Probably exactly the same as your normal morning. Now set it two minutes earlier the next day—you’re now waking up four minutes earlier than usual. I’d wager you’re doing fine.

Rinse and repeat for a solid month—in 30 days, you’re waking up an hour earlier, and it probably wasn’t terribly painful. That’s kaizen.

You can apply the kaizen approach to anything—start with a one-item morning routine and do that for a week. Then add two. Then three. In five weeks, you’ve got a lovely little routine of five things every morning. Nice.

Want to lose a lot of weight? Don’t aim for 100 pounds in 365 days. Go for five pounds in 30 days."

Five Minute Friday: Wonder

Here are the rules straight from The Gypsy Mama

Indulge in five rich, delicious minutes of pure writing.

Tell your readers you’re linking up here and invite them to dig in too.

And most importantly, go visit, read, and compliment the five minute chef who served something up right before you.

WONDER

won·der (wndr)

My first thought is look up the exact definition, found a few different ways explained, so I thought I would do the same.

Noun: An event inexplicable by the laws of nature; a miracle…

The mountains in Alaska first to mind when I read this, we did our 10yr. anniversary last year out there. While we were on the ship going through some of the fjords, I remember looking to my husband saying “How can people not believe in God when they see this?!” It’s a masterpiece. I was in wonder.

Verb: To feel curiosity…

What kind of women will my daughters turn out to be, praying strong, Godly women? I also wonder if God will continue to hear my prayers to soften my husband’s heart about adoption.

Five Minute Friday

Here are the rules straight from The Gypsy Mama:

Indulge in five rich, delicious minutes of pure writing.

Tell your readers you’re linking up here and invite them to dig in too.

And most importantly, go visit, read, and compliment the five minute chef who served something up right before you.

Every Day…
 (the routine or ordinary day or occasion.)

Well when given a couple minutes to process the word, every day I think of the daily things I do.  I get up every day, praise God.  That means I made it trough another night.  On most days, Monday-Friday, it’s a school morning, so I wake up my two older girls.  Their bedroom has been moved upstairs and every day I think I wish I had a bell that just wake them up instead of having to climb these stairs at 6:15am.   I get them breakfast, make lunches, feed the little two girls and most of the time; Franklin drives them to the bus stop. Every day I have a warm cup of tea, sometimes coffee.  It just gets my day going.  Every day includes some sort of housely duty, it’s my job!  I’m a domestic engineer.  I either do laundry, dishes, vacuum, dust, etc.  Just about every day includes l-a-u-n-d-r-y, which I hate it EVERY DAY!!

Every day, I get to put my sweet little chickies to bed.  I get to pray with them before bed, tell them stories, or read a story and of course give them lots of kisses and hugs!  I feel blessed every day that I have an amazing husband and father of our girls in my life!  I don’t know what I’d be doing without him.  I thank God every day for choosing to bless me with this awesome life!!