Happy New Year! Sunday, January 1, 2017
The Christmas season has come and gone, and our attention is turning to the New Year! Time to renew our goals and resolutions, and push for that continual personal and family improvement. I'll admit, I haven't been as excited to set new goals this year. I'm not sure why - I think part of it was that 2016 was such a great year in so many ways it will be hard to beat. But we had a good priesthood meeting today in which we talked of the importance of sincerely trying and putting forth an honest effort in improving.
I shared a quote in priesthood that my brother James shared with me from CS Lewis: "The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge. When the man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left within him...when a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less." (The Great Divorce).
Needless to say the lesson was just what I needed to motivate myself in creating this next year's resolutions. While tomorrow we will conduct a family night putting together our family's resolutions, tonight I will focus on my own resolutions.
Fortunately I had written down goals recently for my 40th birthday, so now I can just expound on those some:
New Goals:
Spiritual
1. Daily Personal Prayers and Scripture - 30 minutes
2. Daily Family Prayers and Scripture - 10 minutes
3. Monthly temple attendance
4. Weekly family night
5. 100% Home Teaching
6. Magnify YSA calling by getting to know all YSA in our ward
7. Daily reflection and improvement
Physical
1. Dinner with family each night
2. 60 minutes daily exercise
3. Weekly random act of service
4. Fried food no more than once per week
5. Daily vegetables and fruits.
6. Monthly one on one dates with Savannah, Benj, and Jacob
7. Lose 10 pounds to 185 lbs
Career
1. Excel in sales management position
2. 30 Minutes per day continued education (5 days a week)
3. 3 sales per month
4. Temporally secure
5. Build 2 spec homes
6. Purchase rental property
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