Stop for a minute and take a self-portrait, a snapshot of you in the here and now. What ARE your dreams and goals for 2008? What is your word? What are you thinking about right now as we plunge head-first into the new year?
My MANTRA for 2008 is
Less is More
Less is More...Less of Me...More of Healthy...
I want to start eating healthier. I have been working toward drinking more water and less of everything else. I need to be more active. I'm not getting any younger and I have really been feeling it lately!! I need to start moving more!! So I have joined The Culver Judge 100 DAY HEALTH CHALLENGE in conjunction with Lighten up Iowa
and Live Healthy America. 
The Challenge starts January 16th and goes to April 24th...100 days. We have formed a 10 person team in our office...Contracts for Fitness...I was voted Captain. We all keep track of our own weight loss and activiity. Then we each have a 'dashboard' on the website to log all of our information into weekly. The program is full of helpful tips on eating healthy and staying active. It even gives us recipes to try. Maybe it will motivate me to do more to get healthy and MORE Active. Remember TEAM is ...Together Everyone Achieves More... that's even more true in this endeavor!!
Less is More...
Less Clutter...More Houshold Space.
I'm going to clean out my storage closets and clothes closets. I have stuff in my storage closet I haven't seen since I lived in the mobile home in Ankeny!! It's time for some of that stuff to go! If I haven't seen it in 7 years I probably don't need it!! I have started on my and Mike's clothes closet...I sent 5 Large garbage bags of clothes to an adult group home in Osceola. I have too many belongings and most of it is unnecessary. It's time for it to go.
I'm going to clean out my storage closets and clothes closets. I have stuff in my storage closet I haven't seen since I lived in the mobile home in Ankeny!! It's time for some of that stuff to go! If I haven't seen it in 7 years I probably don't need it!! I have started on my and Mike's clothes closet...I sent 5 Large garbage bags of clothes to an adult group home in Osceola. I have too many belongings and most of it is unnecessary. It's time for it to go.
Less watching TV...More Family Time.
This one will require help from the husband, but I'm going to give it a try. We watch too much TV and we don't go outside and do something active...this gets back to raising my activity level!! I want to spend more time with the two boys I have at home. After all, Hunter is 9 and in 3rd grade...it seems just yesterday he was in pre-school. And Alex, already 12...I just want to slow him down and I want to be able to watch him grow into himself...he seems to be in such a hurry to be an adult. They are such little men (and babies too).
I also want to spend more time with my older kids and my grandkids. The little ones won't be little forever. Rhonda's kids are growing so fast (& multiplying!). Brighton is 2 and Tate is 5 and Savanah will be arriving in a few months, Shannon's little ones, Joshua just turned 4 and Josie is 5 now. Soon they will be in school and half- grown before we know it. I don't want to miss anymore of them growing up than I have to...anymore than I already have.
Less is More...
This one will require help from the husband, but I'm going to give it a try. We watch too much TV and we don't go outside and do something active...this gets back to raising my activity level!! I want to spend more time with the two boys I have at home. After all, Hunter is 9 and in 3rd grade...it seems just yesterday he was in pre-school. And Alex, already 12...I just want to slow him down and I want to be able to watch him grow into himself...he seems to be in such a hurry to be an adult. They are such little men (and babies too).
I also want to spend more time with my older kids and my grandkids. The little ones won't be little forever. Rhonda's kids are growing so fast (& multiplying!). Brighton is 2 and Tate is 5 and Savanah will be arriving in a few months, Shannon's little ones, Joshua just turned 4 and Josie is 5 now. Soon they will be in school and half- grown before we know it. I don't want to miss anymore of them growing up than I have to...anymore than I already have.
Less is More...
Less Procrastination...More 'Do It Now'.
I have things around the house that need to be done. Example...I bought blinds for all the bedroom windows this past year and they are still in the boxes and waiting for me to get them hung. I have to polyurethane all the window sills first but it really needs to be done. I have a tough time getting things started too. We have to paint all the rooms in the house...just one of those things I hate to get started and then have a room torn up for months on end (like the laundry room was). I have a tough time finishing things, as well, obviously! I have been very guilty of not completing a lot of things...sewing, knitting, quilting and such, these things need to be finished, as well. This is the year I'm going to get a lot of it done!
Less is More...
I have things around the house that need to be done. Example...I bought blinds for all the bedroom windows this past year and they are still in the boxes and waiting for me to get them hung. I have to polyurethane all the window sills first but it really needs to be done. I have a tough time getting things started too. We have to paint all the rooms in the house...just one of those things I hate to get started and then have a room torn up for months on end (like the laundry room was). I have a tough time finishing things, as well, obviously! I have been very guilty of not completing a lot of things...sewing, knitting, quilting and such, these things need to be finished, as well. This is the year I'm going to get a lot of it done!
Less is More...
Less Stress...More Calming down.
I read somewhere that our mind can only handle so many stressors (things left undone), before we feel the stress of knowing it's not done. I will try this year to finish a lot of those undone things and relieve my stress as much as possible. I will try to be less stressed when things don't go quite the way I want them to. I will hope for the best and settle for what may come. It's pretty much in God's hands anyway and I will learn to accept that and not be stressed about every little thing. I'm sure the boys will appreciate a Mom who's not freaking out over the little things all the time. Take a deep breathe and Calm Down!
So, in a nut shell, my New Year's Resolutions/goals for the year 2008 are:
I want to enjoy more time with my family at every opportunity.
I read somewhere that our mind can only handle so many stressors (things left undone), before we feel the stress of knowing it's not done. I will try this year to finish a lot of those undone things and relieve my stress as much as possible. I will try to be less stressed when things don't go quite the way I want them to. I will hope for the best and settle for what may come. It's pretty much in God's hands anyway and I will learn to accept that and not be stressed about every little thing. I'm sure the boys will appreciate a Mom who's not freaking out over the little things all the time. Take a deep breathe and Calm Down!
So, in a nut shell, my New Year's Resolutions/goals for the year 2008 are:
I want to enjoy more time with my family at every opportunity.
I want to be a smaller, healthier version of my present self with the energy to complete the tasks I have set before me.
I want to end the procrastination in my life and complete my many projects and in doing so, lead a stress free life!
Pray for me!!!
1 comment:
I love it!!! I am so proud of you!!! I will help out any way I can so please forgive the lasagna yesterday, from now on it is healthy choices when you come over for lunch!
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