Goals vs. Resolutions

 

I don't like making "resolutions". I feel like they are easy to break and it seems cliche to make a bunch of resolutions, just to end up forgetting about them 6 weeks later. Goals usually begin at any time. Goals are statements of what you want to achieve, the steps you take to achieve them and a time frame in which you are willing to achieve them by. These are things that I have been thinking about for many months (even years for some); scheming how I can make it work in my life to better my life. And because they are goals, me acknowledging them at any time, including January 3, seems fitting. 

Let's get to it:

1. Journal (via Blogger) every day for a year. Using my calendar and making a plan of the time of day that I write will help to make this goal successful.

2. Become healthier. Now this is very subjective. Healthy to me even today, may look very different than it did 5-10 years ago. To be more specific. I want to feel strength, decrease fatigue and feel like I have energy/happiness for my kids. I want my chronic illnesses to be better managed, to the point where they feel nonexistent.  I have joined an app that provides me with a workout schedule and meal/recipe plans. I have actually been doing this goal for the last 8 weeks and have seen slow steady improvement in a lot of aspects of my life. I have to keep the gravy train of this going. 

3. Be more financially responsible. I have 2 homeschoolers at home and, lets just say, things add up with fun activities that we run around doing throughout the week. My son will also beg for food outside the house that I reluctantly, oftentimes enough, give into. I am taking out $100 per week for homeschool activities/expenses. If we exceed that amount, we can not participate in events of that week. If we are under that $100, it will accrue to the following week. This will also teach my son that the little things add up. Maybe save the money for bigger things. I would also like to read Dave Ramsay or take a finance class because, as sad as it is to admit, I am money dumb. The problem with this goal is that I have no time frame. I am unsure when I will take the step to take that class or read that book. 

4. Keep the house clean. I will have weeks where I feel like I have things under control, and then it just explodes. I start to feel disorganized and overwhelmed in my head not knowing where to start and almost sitting in the mess because it feels more overwhelming to accomplish daily tasks to fix and maintain it. I have found this great cleaning planner that I have just started using that is great. It separates out my daily tasks from my weekly and monthly tasks. It also separates them out room by room. What I have realized, writing it out, is I have very manageable daily tasks and I do not need to get the weekly tasks done in one day, so if I don't get to it, no sweat there is always tomorrow. Organization is key to this. 

5. Start a successful health safety class. This has been in the works for some time. It has been brewing because I have slowed down my tutoring business to make sure that I am more available for my kids. This health safety class is to teach kids what to do in common life emergencies. I am also excited because I really like explaining the human body. It will be great to share my knowledge to young kids. I teach adults usually, so I have to remember to bring it down to a fun, engaging, understandable level. 

5 major goals. This seems like plenty. Goals are always a work in progress and writing them down, planning them out, does not mean that I will be 100% successful with all of them on the first try. It is like starting a weightloss plan. You fall off the wagon, you get back up and you keep striving for that goal :).