My Goals for 2016

I am a goal setting nerd.  One of the reasons I love setting goals is that they help me to focus.  When I see lots of good opportunities, I can get distracted easily.  The next thing I know I feel like I’m spinning in circles doing lots of things with very little to show for it.  Goals help center me.  When I feel like life is chaotic and out of control, I pull out my goals and re-focus.

I know lots of people who like to pick 1 word as their theme for the year.  I like the concept, but more than anything, I want to make sure my goals aren’t just random ideas.  I want to make sure my are purposeful and will help me get to where I want to be at the end of the year.  My overall theme for 2016 is:  Best Yeses.  I guess that’s technically 2 words.  It’s based off Lysa TerKeurst’s book The Best Yes*, which I’m reading through with a friend.

My goal is to carefully evaluate and pray about every opportunity that comes before me, so that I can be really deliberate about where I commit myself and where I am spending my time.  It may mean saying no more often to make sure I have the capacity to accomplish the best yeses {and the goals listed below} in this season of my life.  If I actually do this like I hope, then this could be a stretching year, because I absolutely hate saying no to people.

Marriage
1.  1 date night per month {at-home or out}
2.  1 overnight date this year

Motherhood
3.  1 parent/child date per month
4.  Pick a spiritual discipline to focus on with our kids {likely scripture memory}

Personal
5.  Log my eating consistently {using the myfitnesspal app}
6.  Read 1 book per month

Blogging
7.  Post 2-3 times each week
8.  Save for move to WordPress and new blog design

Financial
9.  Slowly increase our retirement savings {to try and reach 15% of our gross income}
10.  Start saving for a newer vehicle

Home
11.  Pick 1 focus room each month
12.  Create and try using a cleaning routine

One thing I plan to do this year is to have a mid-year goal evaluation.  Sometimes our year ends up going in a totally different direction that we plan when we start out {like getting pregnant in January and having babies in October…ahem, Brady and Davis!}, so I am planning to do a mid-year eval in June to see how things are going and where I may need to tweak things.