My Resolutions

After much thought and prayer I have created a list of resolutions, a set of goals I will strive to meet in 2010.

• Read the entire Bible in one year. I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I have never read the Bible in its entirety. I came close to reading through from Genesis to Revelations when my brother gave me a Student Bible after I attended summer camp as a teenager. I can't remember how far I got but I did not get all the way through. I've decided this will be the year! I am going to do it a little different, not going in order of the books as they are printed but rather in chronological order. I will be following this plan created by BibleYear.com. This will be a challenge because it will involve me finding, or rather setting aside, the time everyday to read the assigned chapters.
• Weight loss. I have finally lost the weight I put on during my pregnancy with Samantha but I am still about 15 lbs heavier than I was before my pregnancy with Gabrielle and I am about 30 lbs heavier than I was when I got married five years ago. My goal weight is between my weight when I got married and my weight before Gabrielle. Not only do I want to be a lower weight but healthier and in better shape. I get tired so easily and I know a big part of that is because I do not take care of myself. I rarely eat breakfast, leading to eating more than I should at lunch. I plan out daily dinners but never do I plan out breakfast, lunch and snacks for me during the day which results in me grabbing whatever is the quickest, easiest thing to eat rather than what is the best thing for me to eat.
  
• Getting involved with church. I have been saying for a year now I want to go to Sunday school, I want the girls to attend Sunday school, I want to meet and make friends at church, etc. but it has all been a lot of talk and not a lot of action. So this is the year - this is the year I am going to make the effort!

And that is the list. I could list a hundred tasks I want to accomplish and probably another fifty changes I would like to make but the three points above are the big ones. Some of the other goals I jotted down in my journal I feel will naturally happen in the process of working on these three main points.

I'll have more details about each of these goals in a later post, details like how I plan to go about achieving each of these, specifics such as the goal weight and my starting weight, and how I plan to use this blog to motivate me throughout the process.

Bye for now...