So my list for the new year is daunting, but I'm trying to see it more like an outline to keep me on track, to avoid those days when I feel I'm being pulled in seven directions, to give me focus and enjoy the good parts.
1. Eat More Cookies.
My daughter's idea rings true, the English have tea time, I have 2:00pm coffee cookie time. Those are Candy Cane Jo-Jos, a personal favorite.
2. Plan Weekly Menus.
This one is tricky because A. my daughter will only eat three different things for dinner and B. my husband is only home for dinner three nights a week. I tend to wing it on nights he's not home and end up eating frozen waffles or salad while my daughter dines on chicken nuggets for the 567th time. I would like to plan a week of meals, shop accordingly and stick to it.
3. Include a New Recipe Once a Week
This is tied to goal number 2 obviously, but I get stuck in a rut with our menu options, which is silly because I love to cook and I am not a picky eater.
4. Organize My Day
This idea comes from my friend Robin at TheFancyLamb. She has a wonderful daily time plan that I strive to achieve. I'm constantly running around, trying to figure out what needs my attention next, instead of planning what needs to get done and when I should do it. In fact, I just ordered one of her awesome daily planners to do so! I do love chartreuse.
5. Have a Daily Routine to Keep the House Clean
I am a neat freak but my child and husband seem to be on a mission to constantly sabotage my organization. The kitchen table is a case in point. I go to bed with a clean table every night, magically every morning I wake up to this:
And my husband's bowl of mail drives me crazy:
I need a daily check list of little things to get done so at the end of the week I'm not starting over again.
6. Record Receipts.
I use my debit card a lot. My husband is a cash person. I have a tendency to hoard receipts in my billfold until I have a wallet that could contend with George Costanza. This also leads to our bank balance online not matching our checkbook register. Which doesn't bother me, but drives a certain someone nuts. Also, the pages of receipts in my wallet make me feel frazzled, so on my daily list of chores goes "Record the days receipts"
7. Take My Camera Everywhere
I love my camera, I love taking pictures, why don't I take it with me more often? I think I'm scared of breaking it by dragging it everywhere with me, but sitting on my shelf at home isn't doing me any good either. I can't tell you home many times I've been driving Kelly to a class or the library and saw a tree, a gorgeous view of the river and wished I'd had it with me.
8. Figure Out What to Do With My Uterus.
Sorry, that's probably TMI, but this is the year I need to choose a path. I have severe endometriosis, with a lot of pain. I had laproscopic surgery last year to remove a cyst from my left ovary and my doctor didn't think we'd be able to have more children based on the adhesions and scarring she saw. I've been on Lupron to treat the pain for the last 5 months, but it's beginning to be ineffective and my old friend Lefty (that's what I call the troublemaking ovary) is having a negative impact on my life. So, we have choices to make this year, try for one more child, have a hysterectomy to end this battle of failed treatments, or both? Obviously, one has to follow the other.
9. Blog More
That really speaks for itself, I hope taking my camera everywhere helps me here.
10. Launch New Product Line and Website
I have a new type of jewelry I'm working on that I hope to launch this Spring. And a website, I love Etsy and will definitely keep my shop there, but feel I also need my own site to take it to a whole 'nuther level.
So, 2012 is going to be a big year. It appears my main goal is time related, how to use it, how to maximize it and how to not throw the mail bowl through the window. It seems like a huge list, but I have a whole year to achieve it!
What goals do you have this year? I'd love to hear your resolutions and how you hope to reach them.
Happy New Year!
5 comments:
I am not even kidding that many of those are some of my hopes for the new year!
1~ "PLaying at friends' house" ~ I have decided that I need to put more time and effort into building friendships this year.
2~ Take my camera everywhere and in so doing, be able to do a better job with my blog. My big wish for Christmas was a killer camera bag so that I would be motivated to take my camera with me.
3~ I desperately need a schedule and I need to stick to it........we shall see about this one :)
4~I would like to make some very major changes to my shop/business model/product. Daunting and scary, but I think maybe too exciting to resist.
5~ Plan more meals and shop accordingly. I'm not sure about an entire week of meals, but I do know that my lack of planning ANY has me at the store more often than I care to be and speding more than I should be.
there are more, but these were some of the major ones, and some of the ones that paralleled yours. Great post, Analisa!
Glad to inspire some anal-retentive planning. :)
I love the resolution to take more photos. Definitely something I want to try to do next year as well. Such a shame to own such a nice camera and only use it for product shots. Step one in this goal is actually taking a photography class....watch out! :)
Cheers to 2012, Ana! I hope we can continue to share accomplishments with one another!
It sounds as though we have some of the same goals this year Ana, except for the uterus part. Having been diagnosed with endo at 13, I went through a decade of tremendous pain so my heart goes out to you. I hope you find what's best for you. Now onto my resolutions:
1. Get organized. My desk, kitchen table, bedroom all need some attention. I feel that sense of sabotage as well and this needs to change.
2. Stick to a schedule. I'm pretty good with it, but my time could be spent more productively some days.
3. Find out once and for all what works for my business. After many years of failed attempts, I've done very little outside of etsy and that needs to change.
4. Gain some peace in my house. I've had some personal things going on for a while now and I need to get some resolution before I become a full fledged insane person.
Happy New Year!
That sounds like doable list for the new year. My primary resolution is to just stay positive and be a more happy person and of course excerise more.
We have so many similar goals! My heart goes out to you with your health problems. I hope you find some peace and some pain relief for that soon! Best of luck with your new site and jewelry line. I know it will be great!
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