G is for Goals

In our Living Your Word of the Year group we are using a fortnightly (bi-weekly) A-Z challenge throughout the year to help us focus on our word and live it out.

Because of the way I have made my journal it's a case of going with the flow of what background the pages have when I turn to them.  Here are the pages for G.

My word for the year is Commitment, but no matter how committed you are or how focused you are, unless you lay out your goals you won't actually get anywhere.

I looked back to my page on Commitment to see what I had wanted to see more of in 2019.

• Read the Bible more frequently
• Pray more regularly
• Trust God more
• Move every day (walk, exercise etc)
• Create everyday
• Finish things

All of the above are great but they are fairly vague.  And that's the point of goals - they work better if they are SMART. Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timely.  I decided I would set SMART goals for two of the above.  I found a suitable Bible verse and printed it out along with the goals.  I tried various placements on the page until I was happy to glue them down.

I printed the photo out again that I used in my vision board.  I really don't like putting people in my artwork but I need to keep the photo of me when I was slimmer to motivate me that it can be done.  I love Valerie's idea of using some of my washi tape stash so I made arrows with them.  Arrows represent direction.  Then I drew the dashed line to represent walking.

I drew the dashed lines around the typed words.

The pages together.

I'll let you know how I get on with achieving these goals.  I shall start working on them next week.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

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Rocking Your World

I've just realised it's Friday!

And on Friday there is the meme on Celtic House called Rocking Your World which is
'the moment to step back and take stock of your week, to work out the positives, the things that have made life more bearable and to celebrate these facts. Pop a post together, come back and link each Friday and let's share our positives around. It's a great therapy and stops life slipping through our fingers or spending too much time dwelling on the negatives. Not sure if it's for you - give it a go - you'll never know until you try!'

And I've realised I haven't posted a Rocking Your World since the end of June.  I was away on the first Friday of July but have no idea why I was MIA last Friday - could have been the heat!

Talking of which - I don't do well in 28C (82F) - I'm okay at about 22C!  Still I am pleased to say that I am surviving the heat - just!

Find out about Scorchio here.

Despite the heat I'm pleased to say that I have managed to do 25 minutes of exercise each day - usually before 9.30am to try to beat the heat.  I use a Rosemary Conley Salsacise DVD.

And I'm equally pleased to report that I've lost another pound in weight this week.  That makes 5 pounds in 7 weeks.

And reflecting on the last 3 weeks, I was really pleased to be able to meet up with my friends from college.  We left college in 1970 and only meet up once in a while but it's the sort of friendship where the conversation starts from wherever we left off last time we met.  We went for a walk in the Yorkshire Dales and it rained for the first 3 hours but it didn't dampen our spirits or the amount of chatting we did!

Roger & I walked the next day on our own with blue skies!

More reflections next Friday.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice