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    December Goals

    Hey. Hi. Hello. Let’s recap my November goals shall we? I did not do well at all but I honestly knew when I wrote them that I kind of overdid it this month.

    1. Attend our new community group for the whole month. I’m gonna say we did this halfway. We went to two meetings, one was cancelled and one we skipped. But not bad.
    2. Read God’s word every day.
    3. Workout in some way 2-3 times a week. Ha not even close.
    4. Celebrate our first married Thanksgiving.
    5. Redo the floors in my moms house. Decided to wait on this one till next year.
    6. Go on our weekend getaway to Maryland! So much fun!
    7. Order our Christmas cards!  Can’t wait to get these.
    8. Buy TV stand for living room. I have to post a picture of this. Tommy built it this week and it looks so good.
    9. Get back into reading, read one book. I guess we can count this although I only finished the book I was reading but whatev.
    10. Stay off of social media on my phone. Nope. Also not even close.
    11. Clean out closets. Did one thanks to Tommy!
    12. Blog once a week.
    13. Study 1 Corinthians w Tommy every week. We did one week. We’re so bad at sticking to things we say we’re going to do. Sad.
    14. Do our couples devotional once a week. Also nope. We need to get ourselves together. But we have been praying together before dinner consistently and that has been very nice.
    15. Start Christmas shopping/make a budget for how much we can spend on gifts. Already have about half of my shopping done I think!
    16. Continue taking at least a half an hour lunch at work. No, didn’t do this either. Wah.
    17. Decorate for Christmas!🙂 YES and I’m so excited to show you guys all the decorations.
    18. Chop down our own Christmas tree. Nope but we did try so I’m counting this one as a yes. We went to a place to chop down your own trees but the trees sucked so we ended up buying one that was already cut. I need to do more research so we can do it next year. I was really looking forward to that.

    I didn’t do quite as bad as I thought I did. But I’m a little disappointed because all of the harder goals were the ones I didn’t do. Oh well.

    December goals!

    I only have two for this month because I want to stay focused on my relationship with Jesus and growing that during advent.

    1. Complete the She Reads Truth Advent study.
    2. Rest. Well.

    I have already started the Advent bible study and I’m super excited about it. It’s already shown me so many truths already. Maybe during the month I’ll share some things I’m learning. And for the second goal, I realized the past few months I’m overworking myself trying to be a good employee and also a good wife at home but I need to get better at giving myself breaks. I get burnt out very easily so I want to focus on avoiding that for the rest of the year.

    What are your goals?

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    December Goals + November Goals Recap

    Better late than never right? I really wanted to get this up yesterday but let’s just say that yesterday was one of those days. You know, the ones where it feels like everything went wrong? I’m just glad that it’s over and now I can just get the post up today instead 🙂

    I’ve never done goals before but I thought it was a fun way to keep track of accomplishments and helps me to keep pushing myself to be better. I made a goals list about halfway through November but never posted them so I want to start by posting that and how I did with them and then list what I plan on focusing on for the month of December.

    November Goals

    Spiritual
    + focus on words you’re saying/listening wellI wouldn’t say that I did this as effectively as I wish I did but I did find myself stopping and trying to listen better a few times this month, which is a start.
    + focus on submitting –I still feel like I have a lot of work on this one.
    + spend more time in the word/journaling  -I spent a significant more amount of time reading my bible this month and I can tell it had a huge impact on my moods, the way I handled problems, etc.
    + find a time of day that works best to journal/read your bible -I wrote about the first day I tried reading my bible in the morning here and it didn’t go so well but I preservered after that and I’m so happy to say that I love love love reading my bible in the morning now. It’s easily become one of my favorite things to do.

    Health
    + workout twice a week -I did work out once a week since I started the goal which is an improvement but not quite what I was looking for. Tommy and I also set up a schedule to work out on Tuesdays and Thursdays so hopefully this will help keep us on track.
    + eat less refined foods -This one was hard to track because I don’t really know how much refined foods I was eating before making the goal to really compare, but I think I did a little better. I also bought a real food eating plan and course about what is good and bad and recipes to go along with it so I’m excited to start that.

    Reading
    + finish reading Love and Respect
    -Done! I wrote a review for it here- it was great!
    + read two other books -I started One Thousand Gifts but didn’t finish it.

    December Goals

    Spiritual
    + focus on words you’re saying/listening well
    + focus on submitting
    + continue spending mornings with Jesus
    + thank Jesus for “mundane” gifts
    + finish the advent she reads truth bible study

    Health
    + workout twice a week
    + eat less refined foods
    + do 5 lessons from real foods eating course

    Reading
    + finish One Thousand Gifts
    + read a book on submitting

    Relationships
    + focus on putting Tommy first more
    + focus on being more of an “intentional” friend

    Blogging
    + increase posts to three times a week