Show Us Your Life...New Year's Resolutions

Kelly has asked people to link up sharing their New Year's Resolutions for "Show Us Your Life" this week. 

Ugh.

 I hate the word "Resolution."  Because I never end up keeping them! :)

 So, I am posting my "Goals for 2010" instead of New Year's Resolutions! 

You can't "break" a goal, right?  Sounds good, anyway!

Also- I am very detail-oriented when I make "goals" or "to-do lists", so bear with me!

1) Read the WHOLE Bible in 2010

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  I am planning to use the Chronological Plan from www.ewordtoday.com/year
  
  In the past I have just read through the Bible from front to back,
  
and I have also tried the NT/OT/Psalms/Proverbs approach,
• but I think this will be more interesting-I can read the Bible like a story,
  
in the order that the events took place.

2) Be more intentional with my time

• This means no playing around on facebook for 10-20 minutes, 2 times a day! :)
• Blogging is ok (for now) because it is a way to document our lives without all the time and mess of scrapbooking!
• I am going to try setting my alarm to get up BEFORE Lauren so I can have my quiet time and prepare for the day.  Normally, I just sleep until I hear her on the monitor (and maybe a little longer if I can!)
• Plan activities for Lauren so she doesn't want to watch TV all the time!!

3)Be a better steward of our money.

• Make our new budget and try our best to keep it!
• Use coupons to save on groceries where I can
• Pay off Jason's truck this year and start putting that money towards the tahoe
• Put money into savings to buy a new house (can do more when we sell our home in TN)

4) I'm NOT going to say "Lose X amount of pounds" here....

I'm going to say "Be able to fit into my smaller clothes."

• This is gonna take eating better and exercising
• No more sodas..and I really need to cut back on sweets
• Since we are living in the Frozen Tundra, it's time to pull out the exercise DVD's and tapes while Lauren's napping.
• Water, water and more water! :)
• I will also try to cook healthier for our family...not as much "processed" foods- more fresh stuff!

5)Finish Lauren's "Babys's1st Year" Scrapbook

6)Write more letters and make more phone calls to family and friends...instead of emaling all the time!

7)Downsize our "stuff"

• This means clothes, shoes, etc that we don't need/use
• This includes things of mine, Jason's and Lauren's! "(Jason doesn't have that much stuff..but he does have some!)
• Sell it on Ebay, consignment, or pass on to other families or charity!

Well....that's all that I could think of.  7 Goals sounds pretty manageable!  And 7 is a good number, right?  Maybe sharing these goals with all of blog-land will make me more accountable.

We'll see!