So we all have goals. I believe in doing daily, weekly, monthly and of course yearly goals. I told you I am the type that carries around 2 planners. One for my life and family life and the other just for the blog. It’s important for me to write down my intentions and see my goals in front of me so that I can accomplish anything. So when the New Year comes along to me regardless if you believe in resolutions, goal setting is very much important.
So with that in mind as always I will do my yearly Vision Board. I love sitting down with my husband and kids and helping each other come up with their goals, supporting their goals, and really setting the ground work for our kids to understand that having a vision in life is important even at an early age. We sit down and have the Storr Family Vision Board party. I make it into an event. We have fun, we talk about what we think we want to do, and it’s another opportunity for my husband and I as a couple to set goals for the family, and as individuals. I would highly encourage you to do the same. I also take and set my vision board in my room so I can openly view it. It’s important to have it in my eye sight so I can work through the goals often. I also take a picture of it and set it as backdrop on my cell. This way since I am on it enough, I can continue to affirm my goals daily. I believe that there is at least one thing I can do everyday towards my goals and that is my mindset.
Personal Goals
I used to think that having personal goals should be at the bottom of the list. To me that is not the way to go. Before I can help anyone else in their goals I need to be actively fulfilling my own. So here are my personal goals:
- Take another solo trip
- Connect with a Spiritual Mentor
- Take at least 2 weekends even if it’s an overnight trip to self renew
- Complete 5 races
- Arrange a birthday brunch with my friends
- Take at least 2 girls trips
- Do at least 4 facials at a salon
- Keep my self-care balanced
- Continue my weight management balance
- Celebrate each month with something I love to do for myself
- Stack my savings
- Stack my emergency fund
- Attend more events
- Tweak my friendships to be better, eliminate the relationships that no longer serve
Blog Goals
Here are my blogging goals for this year
- Get a new Camera for blogging
- Collaborations with brands (new ones already secured; details coming)
- Come from behind the blog to be more interactive on my social media platforms
- Use my own pictures and editorials for my blogs
- Continue my branding expansion
- Attend one blog retreat in another state or city
- Increase my social media numbers on all platforms
- Keep the consistency in blogs per week
- Collaborate with 2 new bloggers
Mommy Goals
This I needed to make slighty different from my family goals. As a mom I noticed that any triggers I may have had and didn’t know through counseling has come up in how I parent. Thankfully I am doing the work to make sure that my kids are well-rounded and balanced. Growing up we spent more time worrying about being settled in church that all other areas were neglected. It’s the truth that you can’t just be spiritually minded and no earthly good.
- Balance the time I spend with my kids
- Take them on more mommy and me time
- Continue to work hard at my self-care as it reflects to my mothering
- Develop each child with what they need over what I think they should have ie. love them with their love language
- More patience-always need more of that
- Be mindful of my words and how I relate to them
- Give them the best parts of me
- Cultivate each child’s dreams as a unit and separately
Family Goals
- Take more trips to the lake
- Take at least one beach trip
- Set up 2 family vacations
- Continue to celebrate life freely
- Continue to celebrate the little things
- Continue our prayer sessions daily
- Celebrate each other’s accomplishments
- Continue keeping peach in our home
- Eliminating wasteful spending as a unit
Bae Goals
- One getaway
- Celebrate each other’s accomplishments
- Find ways to love each other according to our love language
- Monthly date nights
- More check-ins and being intentional in listening to one another
- Communicate effectively
- Keep the focus on what’s important
- Be a better partner not just a wife. My husband and I moved towards partnership and I found it’s been better for us. As a wife or husband you tend to work towards duties. Partnership moves past duties and making sure we give each partner what they need to be successful
So as you can see because I am always writing my goals, it wasn’t hard for me to fine tune what I know I’m setting out to do. It’s important to me to be sure that I am always finding ways to be a better version of myself. As life happens, this list, will change. In order to live a life of purpose, I don’t have to stick to this list and bring in the guilt of changing my goals. I can use this as a guide and have fun doing them. I hope you change your perception of what goal setting is about. It’s all about fine tuning yourself and having something to work towards.
May your 2019 be all that you put the work into becoming!!