A Look Back

I posted my personal goals last month and have been wanting to take some time to revisit them & see how I'm doing.  Hopefully, this will be a great reminder for myself & I will have a bit more success throughout the year instead of a short term...idea.

So...here is my check in from the past month:


**Spend quiet time in the Bible each day.
While I have not been in my Bible VERY single day.  I will admit I was in it at least 5-6 days per week.  I was doing really great until about 2 weeks ago.  Time to open up & get my nose back in the Word.  It is the BEST thing I can be doing for me & others around me!
**Stick to ideas set for a least 2 months then revisit them & reevaluate.
Some ideas that we have been trying around the house have actually been working.  Last week...I fell off the wagon, but our schedules are printed & back in action.  We will revisit at the end of this month to see how it is going.
**Exercise for 15 min each day (for 1 month), 30 min (2nd month) working up to 60 minutes
FAIL!  I exercised 2 times in January.
**Eat healthier
I've thought quite a bit about this....not necessarily making any "changes". 
**Look over budget bi-weekly & make sure it is on track
Yep
**Look over goals/dreams with Phil monthly
Haven't done this...maybe tonight.  I actually have a full night at home without any running.
**Write 1 note to someone each week & mail it.  (Had to put the mail it in there because I tend to write notes and then they never make it anywhere but the trash because I find them a few months later on my desk waiting for me to give to the recipient.)  PATHETIC, I know...just tying to keep it real.
I will admit, I am still doing a lot of "thinking" of who I want to write notes to.
However, today one letter was mailed & sent!
**Birthday letters to m children & husband.
Haven't had birthday's yet. 
**Date night with Phil 1 per month.
January was full of many things for our family.  Date night was not able to be squeezed in.  However, I do feel like Phil & I made the most of the time we were given together to at least talk.  (Which is always helpful whenever life is busy!)
**Weekend get-a-way/cabin with Phil
This is coming up...  CAN.NOT.WAIT!
**Show love of Christ to ALL.
I try...not sure how I am doing this.  (Forgot it was actually on my list.)  Will try to think about it more often.
**Figure out each family member's Love Language and act upon it filling each of their Love Tanks.
I haven't actually re-read the Love Language book I discovered that My Love Language has changed & some thought has been put into other family members.
**Read 12 non-fiction books.
2 non-fiction books read in January!  10 to go!
**Raise funds to travel to SD with Phil.
Need to start thinking about this one.....
**Continue to research ways/pray what we can do HERE for Pastor Peter in Nigeria.
Have been thinking...not much action on my part.
**CONSISTENCY
Still something I struggle with, but feel I am doing better.
**Organize each crevice of home & purge what needs purged.
Well...ummm....yea...Oh..I did transform a space into my home (I forgot).  I rearranged a corner to be used for one of my children to do school at.  It is working GREAT!
**Create 1 memory book per month to get photos in order.
FAIL!  Maybe I can create 2 this month.
**Decorate home & make it our own.
We have started to do this. 
**Get some sort of portable electronic device (iPad, laptop, Kindle Fire, etc.)  **I am away from my home  A LOT and this could really help me get some things accomplished while sitting at a rink or waiting in between games.
Phil and I have actually talked about this.  Will wait and see what we decide on.
**Cook meals with Love NOT necessity. 
My family actually LAUGHED at me when the saw this goal.  However, I must admit, because I wrote down that I want to cook meals with love...my outlook on preparing meals has changed.  Now, do I cook EVERY single meal with love.  (Not yet.)  (Don't ask about our meal of only vegetables & applesauce last night.)  However, just thinking about how it is a Blessing to be able to cook for my family has made such a change in how I prepare for meal times.  And I am pretty sure my family has noticed a difference.

WOW! I am feeling pretty proud of what I have accomplished in the month of January.  I am a firm believer that if you write down your goals you are more apt to achieve them.  I honestly, didn't think I had accomplished much of anything in January.  However, reflecting on this past month has proved to myself, that I have accomplished some things. 

How about you?  Did you make some goals for the year?  Have you taken a step to revisit what you want to accomplish?  Take a moment today to do just that!