Goals

Similar to last week, the next seven days should be pretty laid-back.

So, I’m going to try to break out the juicer at least once, and I’m planning on working hard to actually write three posts this week! I feel like I just need to get into a rhythm with my writing, and then it’ll become a habit.

Or not.

Because I do have five beautiful children that tend to keep life sort of unpredictable. 😉

Anyway, here’s what I accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family

2. Plan a fun Family Day at home — We watched The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (again! 🙂 ) and ate hobbit/dwarf-themed food.

Personal Goals:

3. Read 20 pages of Virtual Freedom (affiliate link) by Chris Ducker

4. Walk a total of 100 minutes on the treadmill

5. Drink water with lemon (or lime) and cayenne pepper 4x — We ran out of lemons…

6. Read 20 pages of Tasty Food Photography by Pinch of Yum

Home Management Goals:

7. Mop the floors

8. Fill a bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Bring in a piece of furniture from the garage to use for food photography

10. Write 3 blog posts — I wrote two posts.

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family

2. Plan a fun Family Day at home

Personal Goals:

3. Read 20 pages of Virtual Freedom (affiliate link) by Chris Ducker

4. Walk a total of 90 minutes on the treadmill

5. Juice 1x

6. Finish reading the last few pages of Tasty Food Photography and watch videos from the book

Home Management Goals:

7. Vacuum upstairs

8. Move photos and videos from my computer to an external hard drive

Business Goals:

9. Purchase black foam board or simply something else that I feel I can use as a background for food photography

10. Write 3 blog posts

What are your goals for this week?

I was able to cross almost everything off my list from last week.

In case you ever wonder how I stay mostly on top of my goals after I set them, my not-so-secret tool is Google Calendar. I use it so often and it’s become such a helpful tool that I finally stopped using any sort of tangible planner.

In the past, I couldn’t stay organized without physically writing out and scheduling things in my planner, but now that I use Google Calendar and realize how much better organized it allows me to be, I did away with my planner.

Someday, I may write a post to share why I personally love Google Calendar. 😉

Anyway, here’s what I accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family

2. Plan a fun Family Day at home — Our family days usually happen on Sunday afternoons, and lately, they’ve involved a movie and fun snacks. To be completely honest, we’ve been watching The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films week after week for a while now. We went through all five movies and now we’re checking out the extended versions from the library.

Personal Goals:

3. Read 20 pages of Virtual Freedom (affiliate link) by Chris Ducker

4. Walk a total of 95 minutes on the treadmill

5. Drink water with lemon (or lime) and cayenne pepper 5x — I only drank this twice.

6. Read 20 pages of Tasty Food Photography by Pinch of Yum

Home Management Goals:

7. Organize Elisabeth’s play area — It’s become overridden with LEGOs.

8. Unpack one box in the basement — I decided to unpack a garbage bag of old swimming/pool stuff that was sitting in the basement instead of one of the boxes.

Business Goals:

9. Get caught up on emails

10. Write 3 blog posts

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family

2. Plan a fun Family Day at home

Personal Goals:

3. Read 20 pages of Virtual Freedom (affiliate link) by Chris Ducker

4. Walk a total of 100 minutes on the treadmill

5. Drink water with lemon (or lime) and cayenne pepper 4x

6. Read 20 pages of Tasty Food Photography by Pinch of Yum

Home Management Goals:

7. Mop the floors

8. Fill a bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Bring in a piece of furniture from the garage to use for food photography

10. Write 3 blog posts

What are your goals for this week?

I was able to cross almost everything off my list for last week.

I completely missed drinking a single one of my lemon (or lime) water concoctions. And I only wrote one blog post last week, but this week should be different.

Now that the July 4th holiday has passed, and my neighbors are no longer having illegal fireworks competitions in their backyards… My kids should be able to sleep a little better, and I should (hopefully) get back to having more time to myself after they go to bed. 🙂

Here’s what I accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family — We tend to go around the table during mealtimes and practice each verse.

2. Organize a fun Family Day at home

Personal Goals:

3. Read 20 pages of Virtual Freedom (affiliate link) by Chris Ducker

4. Walk a total of 90 minutes on the treadmill

5. Drink water with lemon (or lime) and cayenne pepper 5x

6. Read 20 pages of Tasty Food Photography by Pinch of Yum

Home Management Goals:

7. Clean bathrooms

8. Unpack one box in the basement

Business Goals:

9. Fix recipes on my blog that are no longer working because of a plugin that I had to deactivate

10. Write 3 blog posts

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family

2. Plan a fun Family Day at home — Our family days usually happen on Sunday afternoons, and lately, they’ve involved a movie and fun snacks. To be completely honest, we’ve been watching The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films week after week for a while now. We went through all five movies and now we’re checking out the extended versions from the library. 🙂

Personal Goals:

3. Read 20 pages of Virtual Freedom (affiliate link) by Chris Ducker

4. Walk a total of 95 minutes on the treadmill

5. Drink water with lemon (or lime) and cayenne pepper 5x

6. Read 20 pages of Tasty Food Photography by Pinch of Yum

Home Management Goals:

7. Organize Elisabeth’s play area — It’s become overridden with LEGOs.

8. Unpack one box in the basement

Business Goals:

9. Get caught up on emails

10. Write 3 blog posts

What are your goals for this week?

I did pretty well knocking out nearly all of the goals I set for last week.

But after thinking about the area I struggle with most – my business goals – I’m going to make a little change moving forward. I realize that week after week I keep biting off more than I can handle in terms of my business goals, and it’s just not good or helpful.

So, instead, I’m only going to create two business goals per week, and I’m going to add an additional personal goal in order to maintain ten goals per week.

It’s so much easier to work on personal goals around my kids anyway.

Business goals? Those generally have to be saved for after they’re in bed or for when I’m able to get some time alone to work on them.

Anyway, here’s what I accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family — This has been such a blessing to our family. Even Elisabeth, my 2-year-old daughter, is doing great with her memorization. It helps that we work on the same verse for a few weeks at a time.

2. Enjoy a Family Day outside of the house

Personal Goals:

3. Read 25 pages of Virtual Freedom (affiliate link) by Chris Ducker

4. Walk a total of 80 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 25 pages of 52 Things Kids Need From a Mom (affiliate link) by Angela Thomas — I finished reading this book and plan on sharing some of what I gleaned in a future post.

Home Management Goals:

6. Clean the microwave — I’m not really looking forward to this. — Thanks to my hubby for getting this done for me. 🙂

7. Unpack one box in the basement

Business Goals:

8. Add a header to my email newsletter

9. Attend a local one day blog conference

10. Write 3 blog posts — I only wrote two posts.

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family — We tend to go around the table during mealtimes and practice each verse.

2. Organize a fun Family Day at home

Personal Goals:

3. Read 20 pages of Virtual Freedom (affiliate link) by Chris Ducker

4. Walk a total of 90 minutes on the treadmill

5. Drink water with lemon (or lime) and cayenne pepper 5x

6. Read 20 pages of Tasty Food Photography by Pinch of Yum

Home Management Goals:

7. Clean bathrooms

8. Unpack one box in the basement

Business Goals:

9. Fix recipes on my blog that are no longer working because of a plugin that I had to deactivate

10. Write 3 blog posts

What are your goals for this week?