Intentional Living: Weekly Goals

We had a BLAST last week spending some extra time with Jake’s cousins kids.  They were great kids and we had fun reading, playing, and exploring together.  It was neat having a 1 year and 2 year in the house in addition to 2 – eight year olds! 🙂    Hoping to get caught up on a lot of projects this week!

Last week’s goals

Family Goals

1. Read Imagination Station: Peril in the Palace by Marianne Hering and Paul McCusker (Book 3) finished reading and started on the next one! 🙂  I love that the chapters are short so it is easy to read one right before devotions and bed.
   
2. Plan one special Activity with the Family
3. Play a board game – played a couple little kids games (the favorite this week with the younger ones was “Don’t Break the Ice”)
4. Lunch Boxes & Book Bags packed the night before – we had a couple field trips, special events, and a busy schedule with little ones running around this week so we didn’t get our lunches packed every night this week
5. Daily School Activities & Homework Completed
6. Attend After School Activities
7. Take care of, play, and enjoy extra time with the little ones staying with us this week – it was a lot of FUN!!! 🙂 

Personal Goals

1. Exercise at least 5 days this week – Ummm…..I didn’t do my official exercises (does it count lifting little ones all week)?
2. Drink 8 glasses of water each day – was pretty busy and notice I got behind on my water a couple days last week
3. Continue my YouVersion plan(s) – hoping to catch up this week
4. Finish reading One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp – was catching up on a book that I needed to read for an upcoming meeting
5. Finish reading Overcoming Dyslexia by M.D. Sally Shaywitz (someone gave me this to read) – made a little progress in the evenings but not as much as I hoped

Home Management Goals

1. All laundry for the week washed, folded, and put away in one day
2. Weekly Dinner Menu planned out for the week
3. Pay all upcoming bills
4. Work on Spring Cleaning – it was put on hold with the little ones here last week

Business Goals

1. Work on ideas for upcoming blog posts – by the time the kids were in bed, house picked up and prepped for the  next day I didn’t get a lot of creative blogging done this past week (hoping to catch up this week though)
2. Keep up with the day to day items that need my attention
3. Work completed for clients – got the projects I had to get done completed

Ministry Goals

1. Meet a friend or family member for Breakfast or Lunch
2. Write and Send Out Community Group Email
3. Send out the Alms & Legs Meeting Reminder

Financial Goals

1. Groceries $40 for 4 – went over our Grocery budget this week
   
2. Payoff the Van – hoping to make an extra payment next week
3. Pay medical bills in full – making payments (a couple have been paid off this month

My goals for the upcoming week

Family Goals

1. Read Imagination Station: Revenge of a Red Knight by Marianne Hering and Paul McCusker (Book 4)
   
2. Plan one special Activity with the Family
3. Play a board game
4. Lunch Boxes & Book Bags packed the night before
5. Daily School Activities & Homework Completed
6. Attend After School Activities

Personal Goals

1. Exercise at least 5 days this week
2. Drink 8 glasses of water each day
3. Continue my YouVersion plan(s)
4. Finish reading One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp
5. Finish reading Overcoming Dyslexia by M.D. Sally Shaywitz (someone gave me this to read)

Home Management Goals

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

Business Goals

1. Work on ideas for upcoming blog posts
2. Keep up with the day to day items that need my attention
3. Work completed for clients

Ministry Goals

1. Meet a friend or family member for Breakfast or Lunch
2. Write and Send Out Community Group Email
3. Send out the Alms & Legs Meeting Reminder

Financial Goals

1. Groceries $40 for 4
2. Payoff the Van
3. Pay medical bills in full

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.