My New Year’s Resolutions
January 10, 2007 by Karen Weideman
Filed under odds and ends
Last week I posted about resolutions and real solutions. It seems that many times we make resolutions, but haven’t thought about what we’re going to do to achieve our goals. This year I am trying to make some realistic resolutions, instead of just a wish list of things I would like to happen. Here are some things I would like to achieve:
1. I would like to be debt free this year (other than our home) and have a good amount of money set aside in savings. Being debt free is a realistic goal. During the past year, we have really buckled down and made it a goal to pay off debt. At this point, we owe less than $1,000 toward my student loans. Putting money is savings is the hard part, since we do not have a high income. I am only working part-time right now while my kids are young.
2. I would like to lose some weight. This one is going to be really hard. Obesity runs in my family and I have tried different ways to lose weight, but have been unsuccessful. Two years ago I even worked out for 11 months straight and did not lose one pound. Yes, it was very discouraging, but I continued working out for my health’s sake. Right now I find it hard to do things for myself and I know I need to make myself a priority.
3. I would like to spend more time reading my Bible. That’s another one of those things that I need to make time to do for myself. I do have a one year daily list of reading. I’m not saying I’ll get through all of it in one year, but it will help me to have a goal, stay more focused, and be accountable to myself.
4. I want to get my taxes done earlier. I absolutely HATE to get my tax information together. It used to not be a problem, but a few years back my husband started up his own side business. Then I had to itemize everything, get all the receipts together, find all the deductions, etc.. It took so long to do all that paperwork. We no longer have the side business, but now I still have to do a lot of itemizing because my husband is a full-time pastor. He has a lot of ministry expenses that are tax deductible. There are just 100 other things I’d rather be doing than getting all that together. I hope I can do better this year.
5. I would also like to be a better person. I know this could mean a lot of different things and it does mean a lot of different things for me. It means not talking about people, watching my thoughts, managing my time better, not yelling at my kids, and lots of other things.
