A New Year = A New Beginning

I love the New Year. I see a new beginning and it gives me a feeling of hope. I always set lots and lots of fabulous goals...fabulous if I actually accomplished them. The first few weeks I feel great and accomplish a lot...and then something happens; I burn out, or one of my children gets sick, or I stay up too late one night, or, or, or. My goals then just seem to tumble and fall apart and I become too overwhelmed to even try. I lose sight of it all and struggle the rest of the year to regain the right perspective. The last couple of months I've been evaluating 2008 and reflecting on what I want to accomplish in 2009 and how to do it. As a missionary I was constantly setting goals together with my companion. I learned different things from each companion. I was able to benefit from each of their strengths. It really helped to have a cheerleader working with me. I would love for my husband to be that cheerleader or companion to plan, evaluate, encourage, pray, and work with throughout the year. This is something that we are striving for in our marriage, but have not perfected. And let’s face it…he is a Man and I am a Woman. We are different. So I am going to keep working toward that “celestial relationship”, and in the mean time I thought about the many others who support and encourage me. I have 4 sisters who are always cheering me on. I also have amazing friends who have helped me through their examples and encouraging words. This brings me to today… We are all sisters and we need each other! Learning to blog is one of my goals this year and here I am because a friend encouraged me. I want this blog to be a place to share what we have learned about ourselves and how to improve and change for the better. I want this to be a place to cheer each other on. I want us to benefit from each others strengths. This is a place to put your goals in writing, make a commitment, evaluate, and receive help in succeeding. 2009 is our year! So let's DO IT! A New year and A New Beginning….Are you with me?

Sunday, January 11, 2009

What is your mission and do you have ambition?

I know I have the ambition...thus this blog. Now as far as my mission...I am still working on writing everything out. This is something that you can follow up with me on. By the end of this month I want all of my yearly, monthly, and daily goals written/typed out in the order of how I am going to work on each one.

I have tried to come up with an actual mission statement for this year and have kept coming back to the 3 missions of the church; proclaiming the gospel, redeeming the dead, and perfecting the saints. I think I will be categorizing my goals under these 3 missions and hopefully it won't be too heavy on the perfecting the saints side. I would love to know how you organize your goals each year. I will let you know more about my goals as I continue to organize them and finalize them over the next several days.

I am not as far along in this process as I wish I was for this New Year, but at least I am moving forward. Right? So what if it is almost February. It is never too late to start and move forward.

So...
What is your mission and do you have ambition?

P.S. The links on the right are great resources for goal setting. They have really helped me in organizing my thoughts and planning out my goals.
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  1. Jessica StierJanuary 19, 2009 at 11:52 AM

    Yay!!!! Go Mary!!!!!!
    I don't think it is ever too late to start working on your goals.

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