New Year, new goals
Live with purpose
And I have added to it some SMART goals... which are now my resolutions:
- Read two chapters of Systematic Theology each Thursday and discuss it with others
- Read morning prayers and pray for others before breakfast each day (and get up early enough to do it)
- Do “small exercises” each morning and choose cycling over the car where possible
- Cook at least one new recipe each week and go back to blogging about it
- Write one other personal blog post each week
- Don't eat between meals unless it it raw fruit or veg and don't buy rubbish from the co-op however bored or fed up I am.
- Spend time in the garden at least once a week
- Keep up knitting/weaving – do some each week
- Have “date night” with R – preferably each week
- Have people over for dinner once a month
I even have a little chart I can tick each week in order to review how I am doing.
Now this may all sound a bit contrived or restrictive, but I have learnt a simple truth:
We either live the life we want or we don't.
And this year I really want to live, not just get by. Lists and goals aren't everyones cup of tea, but in my ever busy life they help me achieve the things I want in life, and strangely create more space and time rather than less - perhaps the intentional list's most precious quality is the banishing of procrastination.