Goals for 2013 - Manning,IA

I will buy a bike and ride it daily for 30 minutes a day. I plan to save a set amount of money each month (private as to the amount) in order to retire in 8 years comfortably, and I plan to get a more active social life by joining a bi-monthly knitting circle (and learn to knit as well). GREAT QUESTION!

I make goals all year long, but I do have one for 2013: Spend more time alone, seeking God in study, prayer and devotion.

Best of luck on your goals!

♥
C. Lee

If you set specific goals, I think you will have a better time achieving them. for instance instead of go to church more, Go to church at least 2x/month (or whatever your number is). for the weight thing, set smaller goals that add up to the 145 total.

For these, even if you choose to take a week or so off, you'll be able to get back on track if you have them measurable.

Good luck! and now I have to figure out what mine will be :-)

Um,
Be 10 lbs lighter than I was in April this year. Isnt that sad? I am having a terrible time losing 10lb in a year.
Worry less..right, I have one graduating college and I am worried about his job situation, one starting his first yr of college.
I'd better stop now or I won't be able to get up tomorrow morning.

I don't make yearly goals or New Years Resolutions exactly.
But I have some goals that aren't dependant on the calendar.
After spending a little more than half the year with my husband unemployed (he got laid off Jan 4th, what a *lovely* way to start the New Year o_O) we ate through our savings and have credit card debt for the first time in at least 6 years. We need to pay off that debt ASAP and begin rebuilding the savings back up.
I am working hard on dealing with all our belongings that got stored and jumbled after half our house flooded and a series of events transpired immediately after that prevented me from properly and fully dealing with it all. I am tired of not being able to find things I want (like my good glue gun that I have found the case for and the glue sticks but not the gun) and tired of the mess of scattered boxes and paying for a storage unit that became the last ditch emergency option in order to deal with it.
We need to move. Had we not had to deal with unemployment we would have just about had the money we needed to do that at this time. So now we are having to start over. But it has to happen sooner rather than later. So, working hard for that.
I want to loose weight, but more importantly I need to repair the muscle damage in my ab area. After my daughter was born I accidentally started the wrong exercises, not taking into account her being sideways until the last weeks of my third trimester. She damaged different muscles than my other 2 and I made everything worse. I am getting there. Muscles are pulling back together and getting stronger and I lost the 10lbs I gained from the depression of being unemployed and broke but still have some more to go.
If these things get done before the end of 2013 then yeah. If not, so long as I put my best effort into them and I can see some sort of progress than I am good.
I don't stress myself about having to get things done by X time because we never know what live will throw at you.
Things like keeping up with the laundry. Every time I get caught up and am able to keep up daily something happens, kids get sick, we get busy, whatever and I suddenly find myself a week behind all of a sudden. It gets depressing. So I never set myself up with things like that which always end up in failure because of something beyond my control. Same with a cleaning schedule. Not worth the stress when it all falls apart.

Wow, we have almost the same list! I would like to:

Keep a cleaning schedule (I have one, I just don't keep it!)
Do more church-related activities, groups
Plan meals better
Be a more focused wife and mommy

I am planning on making a to-do list that prints out on a calendar to help with the cleaning and meals. This way I stay focused and don't try to do everything at once. Plan to rip off a lot of fly-lady stuff, just tweak it for my needs and purposes.

I plan to make a list of ways to be more focused on my hubby and daughter, this way instead of just saying I will do better, I have actual ways to do it!

And the church stuff, I just need to look at the bulletin and website, etc., and commit to doing that.

I don't even want to think about weight loss until I run out of egg nog. :-)

Good luck to you!! Thanks for posting something to get us looking ahead, I really needed that right about now!

I thought the world was ending! What is this "2013" business?!?!

Just kidding - I am copying your goals verbatim. :)

Those are great goals I might just have to take them and make them my own. Except for the weight. It would be a miserable year for all if I got down to that weight. Cause I would probably have to be very sick to do it. Not that that is a bad weight it's great but impossible for me. But best of luck to you!!!!!!!!!!!

Dance as often as possible. Zumba, Contra, Ballroom, Salsa. It's good the body and the soul.

Learn to speak Spanish. I've wanted to do this for years and am finally taking classes at the college. Next step is to find a conversation group and get talking.

Laundry, cleaning? Oh my, I don't even want to think about it much less put it on my list of goals!

I like that these are goals, rather than resolutions. Something about the word resolutions makes me feel like a failure when I don't succeed, LOL. Mine are:

Get the family moved to the new town
Pay off the last traffic ticket I have so I can finally change my name after 5 years of marriage
Get my son into a good preschool that will work with his epilepsy
Get a job with the state so my husband and I have the same benefits
Volunteer in my new town
TRY to lose weight (this is just a bonus)

I love your goals!

Here's my list:
1.) Eat better. (Not necessarily HEALTHIER, just BETTER. Eat out less often, but at better places: Five Guys instead of McDonalds. Order pizza from the place we prefer but have to pick up ourselves, instead of the place that isn't as good but delivers. Favorite local bbq joint instead of Chili's. And do groceries the same way: wild instead of farm-raised salmon. Local, fresh gulf shrimp instead of frozen. Home-made instead of take-out. That sort of thing. We might end up eating a little healthier just by accident!)

2) Behave like the calm, with-it person I want to be, even if only on New Years. (Ideally, longer, but AT LEAST on New Years'. And I think every day that gives you a fresh start is like New Years. So I figure I have seven chances to start over if I need them. New Years' Day. Lunar New Year. Easter. First day of summer vacation. My birthday. First day of school. Christmas.)

3) Keep up with housework, at least enough that I'm not running around like a crazy person when someone calls to say they're on the way over.

4) Tackle some of the stuff on that OLD to-do list. Stuff like the baby scrapbooks (the babies are 6 and 3 now). The truly useless clutter that SHOUILD be easy to get rid of, it's just tedious: instruction manuals for things I don't own anymore. CD's for software that isn't compatible with our computer. VHS tapes (the VHS player is broken). That sort of thing.

5) Get my iron levels back on track to be a blood donor again. I was doing it regularly for a while, but then my DD's school schedule changed (didn't want to take her with my, and our local donation place is only open three days/week), and then I was a little anemic for a while. I'd like to get back to doing it again.