6 Months to a New Mann
16 Jan 2011 1 Comment
in Weekly Update Tags: budget, children, christianity, clean, family, Goals, home, housekeeping, mommy, mother, motivation, New Year, organize, time management, wife
Ahhh!!! Its been almost a month and a half since my last post. Sorry guys. If all goes as planned, this won’t happen again. I’ve set some goals for the new year and one of them is to write at least one new blog post each week, starting now.
And that leads into the topic of this post… my new year’s goals. If you have been following my blog, you know that I made a list of goals that I wanted to accomplish before Kennedy was born. Kennedy was born, and the goals were not accomplished. I got off track, but now I’m back at it!
The Christmas season is over and life is back to normal, whatever that means. Instead of setting New Year’s Resolutions (which generally come without a plan and thus fail) I made New Year’s Goals. The first week of January was spent writing down my goals and mapping out how I was going to achieve them. When I started, I thought I was going to spend the whole year working on them, but as I mapped it out, I think it can be done in 6 months. Woo-hoo! It won’t be easy by any means, and I hope that I’m not being too ambitious.
Most of these goals are the same ones I had before, but now they are written differently, with more specifics and with the smaller tasks needed to achieve them. Click here (or on the “My Goals” tab up top) to see what I came up with. You can also click here to see how I’m going to reach my goals.
If you are taking this journey with me (as opposed to reading from the sidelines, which is okay too), then my challenge to you is to…
1. Sit down with pen and paper and write out your goals
2. Break your goals down into smaller achievable tasks
3. Make a week by week plan on how you are going to achieve your goals
4. Answer these questions: what will you do if you get behind? get ahead? who will keep you accountable? what’s your plan if you get discouraged?
I’m going to try to add a new post every Saturday, so stay tuned. Topics to be discussed in the coming weeks: my new Household Management Notebook and how you can have one too AND week #2 (this was week #1 by the way).
Lack of Motivation
20 May 2010 2 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: clean, family, goal, home, housekeeping, husband, motivation, organize
I am sooo sorry that I haven’t posted anything in a while. We have been out of town for the last week and didn’t have good internet connections. I apologize.
In my last post I mentioned that we had to reschedule with an insurance agent because I was too embarrassed to let him see my house and the mess inside it. The new appointment was set for Thursday morning of last week. I had a very difficult time leaving my plan of action (deep cleaning and organizing one room at a time) to straighten up the entire house. While I probably had plenty of time to make the house at least presentable, I wasn’t able to motivate myself to get much done.
The stress of cleaning added with a busy schedule (organizing a group of teenagers to cook and prepare a baked potato bar for about 80 people on Wednesday, plus 3 appointments on Thursday and packing for a week-long vacation), led to a few heated discussions in the Mann household. The house was still a mess when the insurance agent arrived and I thought I might die. In the end though, he didn’t even come inside the house.
Now that we are back at home from our trip, I have seemed to have lost my momentum. I would like to start cleaning right where I left off, but I’m noticing the messes that have appeared in areas I’ve already worked on. I also know that if I don’t unpack our suitcases today, they might not get unpacked until I need them for the next trip. I’m also looking at the clock. It’s almost 4 in the afternoon already and I haven’t done much of anything today. Matt will be home soon and I tend to drop everything when he comes home so that we can have some family time before the baby goes to bed.
In order to get back on track, I’ve decided that my goal for the rest of today is to unpack and get the living room back to the state it was before all the interruptions. This doesn’t seem too daunting and I’m hoping it will help me get motivated so I can start working on my list again tomorrow. Wish me luck!
