Last year I actually made resolutions - though I prefer to call them goals. So-called New Year's Resolutions just have too much negative baggage to even be taken seriously. I actually wrote my goals down and posted them on my refrigerator for daily reminding and necessary guilting. Goals for last year were as follows:
1. Achieve and maintain a goal weight of XXX. Failed, though I came darn close. Then I gained five, lost seven, so on and so forth. Thankfully the maintaining part was pretty much successful over the long haul though, with only a few extra Christmas pounds to shed. Certainly much better off than this time last year.
2. To pay off all consumer debt, minus mortgage. Well, this one is questionable - all the debt is paid off, but more student loans have been incurred, etc. Overall, the goal was to be become increasingly financially healthy in 2007, and I certainly think that we have, which is great. This freedom helped to allow me to work part-time starting in August and go back to school.
3. To organize and redecorate office. Check. It's beautiful and practical! Love it.
4. To plan and organize youth program for maximum effectiveness. Hmmmm.......gotta think on this one - it's an ongoing effort. We did manage to send newsletters faithfully and establish a wonderful new space, but our bus ministry is failing miserably (not our fault!) so numbers have been a little down, which is discouraging.
5. To buy a one-year bible and read daily. Bought the bible.....can't say I finished out the year through their program. Bad Rhonda. Did read on my own though.
6. To build my prayer life. Prayer has always been my most difficult spiritual discipline. I have tried, but this will need to be added back to next year's goals.
7. To go back to school, make good grades and be on track to graduate in Fall 2008. Check. Very proud that I have made all A's thus far and should graduate in July 2008. Yay!
8. To read at least one quality book per month - but to shoot for reading two. Failed, though I did do some reading and listened to several audiobooks. Was not dedicated in this regard.
9. To be a better wife overall by managing my home more effectively and showing and communicating love to my husband in his love languages. I have worked on this - but there is always significant room for improvement. But I guess that is the way marriage is - there is always a need to strive to be better and more responsive to the other's needs.
Overall, 2007 was a good year. I love working part-time and being back in school is such a blessing. God has been so good to me and Andy and we are so undeserving. I'm working on new goals for '08 and am certain that it will be a year of change, with both of us graduating there will be a lot of semi-major decisions to be made.
Well, I am exhausted and need to go to bed. My grammar and syntax are probably horrific, but I am too tired to care. But I did want to memorialize my goals for last year for posterity before I threw away my refrigerator sheet. :)
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