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 … [Read more...]

I hope you all had a great 4th of July weekend.  We have had a great time celebrating with my family.  It's nice to visit family, but it's always nice to get back home too. It's time for my monthly goal check-in for the month of June.  I have to be honest and confess that I need to regroup and re-commit to these goals.  I've not been making a conscious effort with them lately … [Read more...]

I've missed the past couple of months of posting about how I'm doing on my goals.  And because I took my blogging break, I pretty much failed at really being intentional with my goals, since I wasn't blogging about them.  Just being honest!  I'll still report on how I did, but in June I'm going to actually try to work deliberately on them. Here we go! Marriage 1.  1 date … [Read more...]