Intentional Living: Weekly Goals

Last week was busy with Vacation Bible School for the girls, work, looking for a new vehicle and a bunch of fun summer activities.  The girls have been doing a great job reading everyday and completed a chunk of their goal.  It has been fun being able to enjoy some extra time with them and participate it the fun summer activities.  I was able to tackle quite a bit of my list for last week!

Last week’s goals:

Family Goals

1. Read at least one book or a chapter in a book to the girls every day – I read over 20 library books, a chapter book, and about 20 books from our bookshelves to the girls this past week, they soaking in our reading time together.  
2. Listen to the girls read at least one book to me or Jake every day
3. Participate in at least 2 fun Summer Activities with the Kids
4. Take the girls to Vacation Bible School – VBS – they had a blast!
5. Get to the 1/4 Goal Mark (500 minutes) on the Girls “Swim Into Reading” Summer Reading Goal (total 2,000 Reading minutes) – they blew past 500 hours and getting close to our 1/2 mark
6. Go to the library with the kids
7. Go on a Date Night with Jake

Personal Goals

1. Exercise – at least 5 days this week
2. Finish reading More Than Enough by Dave Ramsey

Home Management Goals

1. All laundry for the week washed, folded, and put away in one day
2. Weekly Dinner Menu & Schedule planned out for the week
3. Start My Summer Organizational Schedule
4. Pay all upcoming bills

Business Goals

1. Work on ideas for upcoming blog posts
2. Keep up with the day to day items that need my attention
3. 1o minutes a day Cleaning / Organizing my desk

Ministry Goals

1. Meet a friend or family member for Breakfast or Lunch
2. Email the updated schedule to our Community Group – been a little more relaxed with this since we haven’t been meeting regularly throughout the summer months

Financial Goals

1. Stay within Budget on Groceries $40 for 4 – went over on this one
2. Emergency Fund – save 6 months worth of living expenses – on hold until we get the money set aside for the vehicle
3. Save money for another vehicle to replace the one that was totaled – moving forward with it
4. Put cash aside for 1 year of Jake’s College Classes – on hold until we get the new vehicle

My goals for the upcoming week:

Family Goals

1. Read at least one book or a chapter in a book to the girls every day
2. Listen to the girls read at least one book to me or Jake every day
3. Participate in at least 2 fun Summer Activities with the Kids
4. Get to the 1/2 Goal Mark (1000 minutes) on the Girls “Swim Into Reading” Summer Reading Goal (total 2,000 Reading minutes)
5. Go to the library with the kids
6. Celebrate July 4th with the Family
7. Narrow down what type of vehicle we want to get

Personal Goals

1. Exercise – at least 5 days this week

Home Management Goals

1. All laundry for the week washed, folded, and put away in one day
2. Weekly Dinner Menu & Schedule planned out for the week
3. Work on My Summer Organizational Schedule
4. Pay all upcoming bills

Business Goals

1. Work on ideas for upcoming blog posts
2. Keep up with the day to day items that need my attention
3. 1o minutes a day Cleaning / Organizing my desk

Ministry Goals

1. Meet a friend or family member for Breakfast or Lunch
2. Email the updated schedule to our Community Group

Financial Goals

1. Stay within Budget on Groceries $40 for 4
2. Emergency Fund – save 6 months worth of living expenses
3. Car Fund – save money for another vehicle to replace the one that was totaled
4. College Fund – put cash aside for 1 year of Jake’s College Classes

I think it is important to share and encourage each other as we seek to improve our lives and the lives of those around us.  I want to live intentionally not just hope all my dreams and goals come true.  When I focus on small steps of improvement I am able to see results as I get closer to my goals.  Some weeks I get closer to the goals I have in my life and other weeks a take a few steps back (life happens, emergencies occur, people get sick).  Once the goals are written down and shared it provides a guideline for what I aim to accomplish this week.

Why Share My Goals?

• To keep me accountable
• To share a piece of my life with you as I strive to be a better Child of God, Wife, Mom, Friend, Homemaker, Entrepreneur and the many other roles I have each week
• To have my goals consistently written down so I can gauge progress more accurately
• Create healthy habits in my life
• To encourage you to share your goals with me as you continue to grown and learn

How did you do this week on your goals?  Feel free to share or link to your list of weekly goals.

The picture above is one that I created for my own purposes, however, The “SMART” acronym was originally coined 30 years ago by Peter Drucker in his classic work, Management by Results