Goals For 2008

Well I had a lot of free time at work today so I sat down to work on mom's goal challenge. Ever since my mission I have really liked this, however I have never been good at remembering the goals and working on them throughout the year like I should. Hopefully this year I will be able to do so. I have a set plan and I think it will work. Hopefully! So here they are.

-Church- I've never been good at doing my visiting teaching. I want to be better. Not one of those sisters that just call at the end of the month. I would like to get to know the sisters that I am assigned to. I think this will help me for several reasons. I don't have a lot of friends that are married and have kids and it would be nice to know a few people with children since I will have one soon. (is that selfish?) Maybe it is but also because I know that the visiting teachers that have been assigned to me and have actually visited with me have been a great help to me.
-I have two for this one. Because this one I should be doing already but Im just no good at it. Seeing how I will be working every other sunday for most of this year I need to do daily scripture study. So I was thinking I would study the lesson for relief society on day, sunday school another and the Book of Mormon the others. Which will fit in really well with the sunday school lesson.

-Family- I want to start making dinners on the nights that I don't work. I enjoy the time I get to spend with Jordan and I think we will eat healthier if I start making the meals. Plus I read some where about a study of families that eat dinner together. I wish I could remember it.

-Personal- For this one I would like to complete the training for a marathon. I don't really want to run a marathon for this reason, I think it would be boring to run for 6hrs straight. However, I think that the training would be a good way to get back into running. I really enjoyed running when I was doing it before. Once I complete this training I want to run 5 miles/ 4 days a week. These two goals will be accomplished by either tredmill. Thankfully we've got one at home. And buy running on a trial out side in the spring/summer/fall (weather permitting) I probably won't be able to run at my most favorite time (when its raining) unless Jordan is home. (side note-I like running in the rain cause it cools you off, and its not so gross (sp?), you can't tell the sweat from the rain.

-Education-Read one book a month. This one is kinda personal and educational. I really enjoy reading and don't think that I take the time to do it enough, so that is why I picked that as a goal.

-Work-Ok I have a few for work but I'm not going to put them all on here. For one I have to set several goals for work every year and I think they are pretty lame. So here is my goal, make the best out of work everyday. No it doesn't really seem measurable. But trust me it is the way I have it written out. There is more detail to it but it would make no sense to any of you. Only because I have to be able to understand exactly what I do. Ok I think I am more confusing than anything. What inspired this one? There is a commercial on tbs for 10 item only. Or something like that. The guy is a manager for a grocery store. And I the commercial he says "do I really want to be here working retail? No, but this is where I am at and I might as well make the best of it." I've really gotten into the habbit of looking at all the negative aspects of my job. I really liked my job at one point. Im not so happy with what it is becoming, and I don't really feel appriciated there. (thanks to managment) But it is a good job, I like the idea of what we are trying to accomplish, and my not being up set about what is going on isn't hurting who it should. Its hurting me and the girls that I am working with. And really that isn't fair. So I really want to make the best of my job, and focus on what I am there to do. Not the politics of it all. I think over all it will make me a happier person while I am at work.

-Ok so here is my plan to stay focused on these things. I am going to break what I need to do each month for these goals. (I didn't quite get that done tonight) Then each sunday I will look at what I need to do for the week to help accomplish the goal for the month, and schedule it in. It may seem a bit, oh I don't really know the word for it. But this is how I did my goals on my mission. Slightly adapted, and it really works. Plus it keeps you focused on the goals. I was doing it also for a while a few months before I got married and it was working pretty well.

So there you have it, my goals for 2008. Also my goal is to start thinking about my goals earlier on for next year. I think that if I would have put more thought into it I could come up with some really good goals. One thing for this year that I think made setting goals a little harder is that Parker will be here in February. My life will be changing alot. It already has changed a lot but it will even more. I don't exactly know what I can commit myself to. Im not even sure when I will actually be able to start running (as much as I would like to). But the great thing about goals is that you can stop and re-evaluate if you need to. It doesn't make you a failure if you have to adjust cause you set the goal to hard. Well that is enough for now. I just wanted to get this posted. And since I wasn't tired at all when I got home I decided to do it now.