We changed things up this time.
Last year we each chose ten goals to work on.
This year we've chosen six priorities, each with their own mini (and not-so-mini) goals.
Our categories are:
Family, Friends, Career, Health, Home and Hobbies.
We're using the same
free Goal Planning printables
from Money Saving Mom
that we used for 2012.
They're available for download HERE.
Tyler, Ella and I have our "meetings" on Saturdays, after Sam falls asleep.
Over the next couple months,
we should have everything worked out...haha, I know, I know,
supposed to be goals for 2013 and we'll probably be finished setting them by March!
Some of them will help us out for many YEARS though-
like our HOME category.
We're building a Home and Family Binder.
I Googled, I Swagbucked and I Pinterest searched for available home organizing forms.
Whoa, I found the mother lode of free printables at Organizing Home Life.
Thank you , thank you, thank you to Ginny and Crystal-
both super amazing, very organized and sweet.
They must have worked their butts off to make all of the printables available.
Ginny thought of everything for a home binder:
Daily, weekly and monthly to-do lists.
Home maintenance schedules, interior and exterior.
School information pages.
Auto maintenance log.
Weekly meal planning forms.
Family contact lists.
Birthday and Anniversary calendar.
Those are just the forms we'll be using.
She has even more HERE.
I feel like I could do a whole informercial on Crystal and Ginny's generosity
and hard work- really though, they don't know I'm posting about them.
So now we're slowly filling it in.
We'll also fill it with the rest of our goals and anything pertaining to them too.
Ugh, if you think this sounds fun-
you're loco en de la cabeza.
(Crazy in the head.)
But when it's finished....ahhhhhhh, big sigh, it'll be a load off my brain and shoulders.
What needs to be done today? Oh yeah, I can look in our binder and find out.
I no longer have to write it on our white board.
Or our bathroom calendar.
I can take the post-its down.
I can stop writing on my hands.
And I can stop kicking my own butt for forgetting things because guess what....
it's all right there.
In one bright orange binder.
It's time to fill the grooves of my memory with other things.
Like how to use my camera.
And date nights with Tyler.
And volunteering at an animal shelter.
And...oh, all sorts of gooooooood stuff.
This is {part one} of our yearly goals.
I'll continue to post as we get them together.
Anyone else writing goals down this year?
Are you already done?
How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.
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5 Sweet Comments:
I made a list of ten goals for the year. Hopefully I'll be able to check off most of them by December :)
It's so cool that your family is doing it together! It's great that you are teaching your daughter about goal setting at such a young age :)
Cool Tarra! I bet I know one of them...going to check out what you've been reading now...
About Ella, thanks, I hope some of it sticks with her!
I printed the Home Maintenance schedule and the Weekly to-do-list. Now I'll see if I can stick with it. I liked their idea of covering the pages with plastic so that you can use a write on/wipe off marker and never have to reprint.
Jackie- yeah, such a great idea!
Love this organizational tune-up. It's a great time to get started with the new year beginning.
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