Happy New Year!

I really don't like to make resolutions because I have never followed a New Year Resolution through. So for years I haven't made any...officially. But...I always have goals for the year at the beginning of the year which I now realize is almost the same thing. I rarely follow through on these goals either so I have decided to make different goals this year that might help me achieve the old ones.

1) Old Goal: To read my Bible daily.
New Goal: To set aside time to read my Bible daily.
My thinking behind the new goal: I read in an article once that if you try to form a habit in baby steps often you will just complete the whole step. The author of the article said he was going to start a habit of running by just first only setting out his running clothes for the next morning. However he discovered that on the first morning where he had set out the running clothes, he decided to take a step further and went just running.

2) Old Goal: To lose weight.
The following New Goals should help me achieve the old goal.
New Goal: To change my relationship with food. To work on seeing it as enjoyable sustenance instead of something to use to make me feel better when I feel badly.
New Goal: To find ways to deal with bad feelings other than by eating.
New Goal: To set aside a time to exercise daily (see my thinking on New Goal #1 =})
New Goal: To eat at home almost exclusively and avoid pre-packaged foods. Whole, unadulterated food!
New Goal: To use Plan to Eat,

3) Old Goal: To have a clean house.
New Goal: To have the kids pick up their stuff every night before dinner.

4) Old Goal: To watch less TV.
New Goal: To try one new thing a month and do it at least once a week during regular TV viewing hours.

5) Old Goal: To make new friends.
New Goal: To join a "moms" group that a friend invited me to.

Okay, I think that's good enough. Have you made any New Year's Resolutions this year???