Now that we’re 14 days in, I guess I should probably make my “official” to-do list. It’s just a bitty little guy this year.
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Spiritual growth. Instead of say “read devotions every day” or “read the Bible all the way through” like I have in the past, I’m just hoping for this to happen for me this year. Every time I make some sort of tangible goal I feel that I’m failing myself horribly at the single most important thing in my life and it’s depressing. This is an area where I need great improvement but setting goals like that just isn’t working for me. I HOPE to start keeping a prayer journal but this year I’m not going to commit to anything more than just spending more time with God. This time it’s not something that can be measured by pages in a book – whew!
Being nicer to Ryan. I can be a mean girl sometimes. That’s all I’ll say about that because I know everyone has issues with this to a certain extent and no need to give the dirty details, heh.
Become more financially responsible. I can be pretty spendy at times and now that we are both freelancers money’s become a lot tighter. We (and by we I mean Ryan) have created a new budget that we hope to stick with based on some of the principles Dave Ramsey talks about and others that we’ve been doing all along. Like not spending money we don’t have, paying off our credit cards and always giving our tithe to the church no matter what. But I’ve yet to completely adapt to the model Ryan’s laid out for us which is: only buy what we need. {whining} But it’s sooo haaaarrrd. There are so many miniature things I cannot resist…
Meal plan. I’ve just devised a meal plan for us that will begin tomorrow. It’s 14 meals (lunch & dinner) that I plan to repeat every two weeks. There is some wiggle room on deviating from the menu so long as I maintain the basic ingredients and don’t need to go out and buy more. We’ll see how this works (and how sick of the same meals we get).
Get Signify more social. I need to continue to grow the business so I plan to tweet more and give more updates on Facebook just to keep my name circling. With Ryan now working freelance we need all the work we can get! In saying that…please pass the word if you know of anyone looking for some marketing/design work. It would be much appreciated.
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Well I actually didn’t think my list would be even this long but turns out I do have a few set goals for myself this year. No traveling was listed on here but I’m sure there will be at least one trip back to the Midwest to meet all my friends’ new babies! Oh yeah, did I mention everyone and their mother is pregnant…in Michigan and Illinois? Yeah. Cruel seeing as I don’t have many moms to play with out here.
Hrmph.
Resolutionarily yours,
Laura
i heard of someone doing that with their meals, but they had about 2-3 different menus that they rotated so they wouldn’t get sick of it. whenever i get tired of planning and do menu rotation, like you mentioned, i will often plugin a basic daily meal, like … monday mexican, wednesday pizza, etc. that way, i can make fajitas one week, tacos the next, quesadillas on third week, etc. or we can do homemade pizza, frozen pizza, $5 little cesar’s pizza, etc. i love meal planning and definitely need to get serious about it in 2012.
great goals!