Intentional Living: Weekly Goals

After much thought I have decided to share my weekly goals with you.  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.

Here are my goals for the upcoming week:

Family Goals

1. Spend 1-on-1 time with each child everyday
2. Read a book to the girls everyday
3. Have the girls read 1 book to me 5 days this week
4. Do devotions with the girls every night (sometimes it gets late and we rush to get them into bed)
5. Schedule a Date Night with Jake
6. Schedule a Date Night with each child

Personal Goals

1. Exercise – walk at least 5 days this week
2. Finish reading  The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman
3. Listen to The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
4. Go to bed by 10:30 or earlier on Monday through Thursday

Home Management Goals

1. Weekly Dinner Menu planned and written by Monday
2. Spend 30 minutes every day picking up / cleaning the house
3. Dinner on the table by 5:30 PM (Monday through Thursday)
4. All laundry for the week washed, folded, and put away in one day
5. Summer clothes pulled out of the main part of the closet and put away (it’s getting chilly and we are not wearing them as much now)
6. Pick the fresh vegetables that are ready and start preparing the garden for the first freeze.

Business Goals

1. Spend 10 minutes cleaning and organizing my desk (somehow everyone stacks stuff on my desk, myself included, and within a day I have a pile sometimes piles)
2. Pay all bills that come in the mail this week
3. Work on ideas for upcoming blog posts
4. Research ways to create more residual income

Ministry Goals

1. Email our weekly Community Group update including upcoming events on the calendar, praises, and prayer requests
2. Alms & Legs Ministry – Email upcoming meeting reminder to members, write and print the meeting agenda
3. Meet a friend for Breakfast or Lunch
4. Pack our Operation Christmas Child boxes

Financial Goals

1. Stay within Budget on Groceries $40 for 4
2. Pay off remaining debt
3. Emergency Fund – save 6 months worth of living expenses

I am striving to live intentionally so I have the ability to give my time, talents, and resources more generously to family, friends, and those who my life touches.  Please feel free to share or link your list of goals in the comments below.  Let’s help each other be accountable for the goals we set for ourselves.

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

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