I've been thinking a lot about myself and the life that I am currently living. If I died tomorrow, would I feel like I did everything I wanted/needed to? Would I be happy with my lifes choices? I came to the conclusion that no, I wouldn't be happy. I'm always using the excuse that "I'm too busy" to do whatever. I want to learn how to cook, do hair, garden, budget, and just enjoy the outdoors! I want to know the scriptures well, pray everyday and have that relationship with my Heavenly Father that I had when I was on my mission. I know that there is no way to do what I did on my mission now because I can't dedicate 24 hours 7 days a week but I can pray several times a day to get that closeness back. I've really slacked the past year with many things and I've noticed that temptations come into my life so much more than they did. Well, I take that back....I still had temptations but they were much easier to push away. I'm very excited to get into a completely different work environment come August! I will be around much more uplifting people. Even if they aren't LDS the type of environment promotes clean language and good behavior inside and outside of work. I'm so excited for this! It's amazing the things you miss when they are taken away from you.
Another thing I want to work on is learning to handle money better. I want to live on a budget. We are saving money regularly and we have a very nice nest egg if something ever were to happen but I really want to be better at spending money. Mike makes pretty good money working and I'm not doing too bad either and since we don't have kids we don't really have to worry about money. If we ever want something we will get it......I've never had to budget going to the grocery store, we eat out when we want, we go out and do fun things whenever we want, we vacation etc. this is probably really weird but I get jealous of families that struggle and budget AND rely on the blessings received from paying tithing. If something were to happen to us.....I would be clueless on how to budget. When we start having kids and Mike is going to medical school I will have to know how to do those things so I want to start now. If you have any suggestions let me know!
Next, making goals and accomplishing them has always been a huge thing in my life. I want to make more goals and reach them. For this reason I am making goals for myself each week that will help me become the person I want to be. I don't want you guys to think I'm not happy, I am. I love my life and I LOVE Mike. He is amazing and I have had so much fun these past four years! There is never a dull day with mike! I just think the biggest thing is I've gotten into a routine of school, work, sleep.....that I have lost track of the spiritual things in my life as well as the progression. I've plateaued and that is something that I do not want! Like I said I've used the excuse of being busy, which I am.....but I can make time for things such as praying and reading my scriptures. I can make time for visiting teaching and calling up a friend to see how they are. I can make time to take a meal to a neighbor who may need some extra help. It's the small and simple things that I want to do and I know I can.
Tomorrow is Sunday, the beginning of a new week and a new me. I am going to try my hardest to keep that new outlook on life vs. I'm too busy....wish me luck!
This weeks goals:
Pray as soon as I get up in the morning and right before bed everyday!
Put time aside to learn about gardening
Make a budget
Continue with WW
Swim three times for an hour
Take Scout out on two runs
Make general conference kits for visiting teaching ladies
No more gossiping!
No more mean or judgmental thoughts ( this, sadly, will be the hardest)
Go the exta mile at work
Hopefully this list of goals will continue to grow and become more profound over the next year. Actually, I won't say hopefully, it will grow! Also.....need some ideas. If I do something that I didn't want to do, such as gossip, what are some disaplinary things that I can do? Any suggetions/ideas?
1 comment:
Great post Julie, I think you're awesome and can do whatever you set your mind to, thanks for inspiring me to be better :).
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