living simply and embracing imperfection
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I thought I’d take a few moments and share how we’re coming along on some of our goals for 2011. It’s important to look at the goals every few months for a couple of reasons: To be encouraged…
Welcome to AOC’s “Top Ten” series for 2011! Can you believe we’re so close to 2012? I’m still working on getting all our Christmas decorations put away – even though it seems like we just put them up!
Anyway…when I made some top ten lists last year, I found it to be a great way to not only remember the goals we reached and the projects we completed (or not!), but it also helped me to plan for…
After looking back at 2010, now comes the time to look forward.
Why put this out there for you? Well, a couple of reasons:
1. I think it’s healthy to set goals and aim to accomplish things over a period of time. This helps us see our progress and be better able to evaluate. There’s something about having a list and seeing them checked off that makes us feel great!
2. I hope you’ll be inspired to set you…
I set goals in three areas last year- Home, Financial, and Blog. Writing them down really did help to keep them in my mind.
Mainly as I realized some were just not gonna get done. Sigh.
I’m going to keep this short and sweet (I’ve got to get some new stuff published for you!) by giving a brief review of how we did with our goals from 2011 followed by what we’d like to accomplish this year in these same three a…
…; Home, Financial, Business/Blog – and choose only 3-4 things to accomplish in each area. First I’ll recap of how we did on last year’s goals, then I’ll list the things we’d like to accomplish in 2013.
Progress on 2012 Goals
Home:
Finish the laundry/mud room: Ack- did we even do anything toward’s this? Ah, yes – we at least got some shelves put up, whew. Move to the 2013 list&…
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