Does anyone have any resolutions or goals for this new year?

[HeyThereDelilah]

I don't make resolutions, but last year (like that was so long ago) I told dh I needed to get serious about changing my eating habits and exercising more. That's what I've been working on. How about you?

[Barbara]

Sunday the sermon touched upon resolutions. The guy preaching (not our pastor) said he no longer makes them because he never kept them. He went on to read a list of the top ten resolutions. I laughed because they were mine almost down to the order--dieting, exercise, organizing...

This year I would like to improve upon my Spirtual life. I would like to study the Bible more and not just read it. I came upon an article talking about a book One Perfect Word by Debbie Macomber. It is about choosing one word and focusing on it all year. That sounds interesting. I am going to try to see if our local bookstores have it before buying it online.
Edited to say it is a new book that is not yet released.

[vicki]

No.

[HeyThereDelilah]

Barbara, your post reminded me of this:
http://www.gotquestions.org/new-years-resolution.html

[Barbara]

Thanks Genesis, that was a neat article.

[Lily]

On Spark people i actually did write down goals... BUT We are encouraged to focus on not making them so much as going over them often.. Funny, then i heard this pastor preach and he said Americans have it all backwards. Instead of making and breaking... we should go over how our lives are going quarterly,... If we do make a list tweak it often to see how we are doing and what needs changing. Less frustration about failures, because we are focusing on both ups and downs and how to make it work better... I loved how it went hand and hand with some of the spark theories... because that has indeed helped me quite a bit....

Yes, I want to study the Word more... i want to continue to lose weight and exercise more... I want to organize my home better...

[vicki]

On Spark people i actually did write down goals... BUT We are encouraged to focus on not making them so much as going over them often.. Funny, then i heard this pastor preach and he said Americans have it all backwards. Instead of making and breaking... we should go over how our lives are going quarterly,... If we do make a list tweak it often to see how we are doing and what needs changing. Less frustration about failures, because we are focusing on both ups and downs and how to make it work better... I loved how it went hand and hand with some of the spark theories... because that has indeed helped me quite a bit.....

Sounds very good. I think the quarterly thing (or as often as necessary) is better than yearly!

[Fuzzyliz]

I didn't make any this year because they usually don't even last the first day!

However, I am working on being more organised, getting my house more in shape etc.

I have another thought that I am trying to work on - to do with trusting God more. I wondered if the reason we are so continually struggling financially is because we try to 'fix' it - we say we are trusting God and then try to work something round. My biggest thing that I do is to talk with Mum - she doesn't have a lot of money - but she does have more than us! And many of the things that cause me problems would also affect her - e.g. the car needing work - she relies on me often to take her around places, if the car doesn't work then I would find it difficult to even visit her.

I have decided that I won't talk with her about our finances. She always ask but I need to tell her that I'm not going to discuss it. I think I will leave it to God to promp her to give us some or not. When she asks and I tell her she gets upset because she can't just give us everything we need, then she also feels bad and she has enough on her plate worrying about my brother and she sure doesn't need to worry about us too. I know that God has said that he will take care of us, that we can hand all our worries to him - so that is what we are going to do - totally. The hard bit will be not talking to her because she does always ask! We don't normally tell other people that we are hard up (in fact most people at church don't realise quite how bad things are!) - we do just try to smile through the times and be cheerful. So maybe that is a resolution of sorts!