We are fast approaching a New Year and with that i am fast approaching my 2nd blogaverary! As I get ready for the upcoming new year I start thing about my goals for the upcoming year…not resolutions BUT goals! Well let’s go back in time to January 8, 2007 to my very first blog post
Every year January 1st rolls around and the buzz word seems to be “resolutions”. Most popular to date. I resolve to go on a diet and loose ten pounds. Now that’s great but how many actually achieve that..not so many. I propose a different challenge. My husband and I set detailed goals for the year. We write them out and look at them often. Mine are broken down into categories of personal and family. I am fairly detailed in them. I state which projects I want to accomplish say 2 sewing projects then I specify which ones. This may seem either too simplistic or too overbearing. Either way it sets your perspective for the year to come. I have two children who are very young and only 14 months apart, so goal setting is perfect to keep me on track and on schedule though most time my goals are set too high and I don’t achieve them all. However I have discovered the more I have the more of them I reach.
Well I have added a third Child 16 months younger than the last one since then and now I have also come up with a notebook that helps me keep on track. So let me share the pictures with you!
This is the note book and the binder it is housed in 
These are my monthly pages 
This is written inside the fromt cover. I have ADD BIG TIME! So this is a must focus for this year! 
This is a new section I added this year..actually it a revamp..It used to be weekly goals But this year it is weekly accomplishments so when i feel as though i have not accomplished much i can just go back and take a peek! 
These are weekly goals and this is a break down of the monthly goals 
This is an add on to the three ring binder. It is a declutter calendar. I Added it about half way through last year. I only have six days left. Not bad when starting in the middle of the year. This has been a huge asset to me this year. Also in this spiral note book I have a page that is a list of everyone We buy/make gifts for and also a page to keep track of the books I have finished! I guess back when i made these decisions about Goals over resolutions is that You can resolve to do something BUT if you don’t have a plan behind that resolution you are going to fail! JUST A THOUGHT!
