10 Weekly Goals

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by Crystal on January 21, 2013

I’ve been amazed at how much of a difference it’s making for me to be approaching my days by being really committed to knocking out the hardest things first. This resulted in another week where I completed all my goals — and there was still plenty of margin time. Yay!

Here’s my list of goals for this week:

Family/Marriage/Mothering Goals

1. Read five chapters of Vinegar Boy: Encounter Christ Through the Dramatic Story of Vinegar Boy aloud at lunch. Read three chapters of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh at dinner. Read three chapters of The Amazon Stranger with Kathrynne, read three chapters of Little House on the Prairie with Kaitlynn, read three chapters of Farming with Father to Silas.

2. Play at least one game of Scrabble together as a family.

Personal Goals

3. Memorize Romans 1:5-6.

4. Finish writing all Christmas thank yous.

5. Exercise 5 times.

6. Finish reading You Can Raise a Well-Mannered Child, The Shelter of God’s Promises, The Duck Commander Family, and The Good Life for Less.

Homemaking Goals

7. Do a Freezer Cooking in an Hour session.

8. Finish 30 rows of the scarf for Kathrynne.

Business Goals

9. Work on the second round of edits for three chapters of my next book.

10. Finish two guest posts for other sites.

This week’s goals:

Family/Marriage/Mothering Goals

1. Read two chapters of Vinegar Boy: Encounter Christ Through the Dramatic Story of Vinegar Boy aloud at lunch. Read three chapters of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh at dinner. Read two chapters of The Amazon Stranger with Kathrynne, read two chapters of Little House on the Prairie with Kaitlynn, read two chapters of Farming with Father to Silas.

2. Write a love note to Jesse.

Personal Goals

3. Memorize Romans 1:7-8.

4. Exercise 4 times.

5. Finish reading The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears, Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World, Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life, Making Room for Life: Trading Chaotic Lifestyles for Connected Relationships, Love Has a Face: Mascara, a Machete and One Woman’s Miraculous Journey with Jesus in Sudan, Lessons at Blackberry Inn: Adventures with the Gentle Art of Learning, The Pursuit of Elizabeth Millhouse, Risk is Right, and Tahosa Treasure. {And yes, I know that that is a crazy long list, but since I have eight flights combined for my two trips this week, I’m thinking I should plan for plenty of reading time!}

Homemaking Goals

6. Do a Freezer Cooking in an Hour session.

7. Finish 30 rows of the scarf for Kathrynne.

Business Goals

8. Work on the third round of edits for two chapters of my next book.

9. Attend the She Speaks Intensive.

10. Finish mapping out my keynote for the BEECH Retreat.

How did you do on last week’s goals? What are your goals for this week? I’d love to have you share your progress on last week’s goals and your goals for this coming week in the comments. Of, if you’ve blogged about it, leave your direct link below. Let’s cheer each other on to live purposeful and productive lives!

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  • Katie @ KatieTevis.com January 21, 2013 at 06:17 pm

    My goals for the week–including to exercise, which I’m going to go do right now! :-)

    http://katietevis.com/weekly-goals-update-11513/

  • Melissa January 21, 2013 at 06:18 pm

    Congrats on accomplishing all your goals! I set monthly goals last year, but this year I have broken them down into weekly goals, and I am amazed at how much more I accomplish. Here are mine for the week:

    http://www.momsplans.com/2013/01/my-weekly-goals-for-the-week-of-january-20-2013-and-an-update-on-last-weeks-goals/

    Good luck on your travels and reading all those books!

  • Kim January 21, 2013 at 06:20 pm

    It was a week of falling short with my goals. BUT it was also a week of learning some new things, re-evaluating how I plan my day/week and preparing differently for how I will accomplish this week’s goals

    http://magnifyhisname.com/2013/01/21/10-weekly-goals/

  • Victoria January 21, 2013 at 06:22 pm

    My goals for January have focused around eating down our deep freeze. I used up all the bake goods the other week, and we are slowly eating through the various sale priced meat store. Finally used up the lone bag of frozen broccoli tonight it your “broccoli chicken and rice casserole” only I used ham since that was what we had, and only homemade cream of chicken (again that is what I had) and it turned out very good! http://snailpacetransformations.com/2013/01/21/pantry-challenge-update-week-4-goals/

  • Shelly January 21, 2013 at 06:25 pm

    I was able to get a little over half of my goals accomplished this past week. I have a few goals that I will be continuing this week along with adding a few new ones. We started listening to the Bible on CD at breakfast time which is a nice change for me since I usually read to the kids.

    Looks like you had a very productive week, way to go.

    Here are my goals for this week.

    http://www.frugalfamilyhome.com/goals/my-goals/goals-for-week-of-120

  • amanda January 21, 2013 at 06:32 pm

    This is my first time listing my goals on my blog: http://emersonfamily.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/this-weeks-goals/. Yikes I guess this means more accountability! :)

  • Tammy Skipper (@Tammy_Skipper) January 21, 2013 at 06:41 pm

    I have also been tackling the hard stuff first and it made a big difference: I really enjoyed the weekend knowing the needed things were done at home. Wishing you all the best as you prepare for BEECH, so wish I was going!

  • Holly January 21, 2013 at 06:43 pm

    I worked overtime this week, but I was still able to cross of some goals on my list : http://livinghappierandhealthier.blogspot.com/2013/01/weekly-goals.html .

  • Melissa January 21, 2013 at 06:51 pm

    I am impressed that you accomplished all of your goals. I was setting monthly goals, but now I have moved to weekly goals with good success. Here are our goals for the week:

    http://www.momsplans.com/2013/01/my-weekly-goals-for-the-week-of-january-20-2013-and-an-update-on-last-weeks-goals/

    Good luck on your trip and with all that reading!

  • Jessica January 21, 2013 at 06:53 pm

    I am really enjoying having goals this year instead of flimsy “I’ll work out” type of things. I started running this week to accomplish my goals of completing a 5k and 10k this year. I was disappointed in my running Saturday. Today I realized I was pushing myself too hard to immediately run those 3 miles at a decent pace. I slowed down and today was 100% better.

  • Lindsey Swinborne January 21, 2013 at 06:55 pm

    I’m keeping my goals very simple this year. In keeping with them, this week my goals are:

    Complete the first 3 workouts for Couch to 5K (1 down, phew! I never, ever, ever thought I’d ever run for fun, but I’m very determined to do this thing that I thought I could never do just to prove I can!)

    Read 2 chapters of the Bible each morning

    Be patient/kind with my kids instead of reacting to their noise/behavior

    Eat more fruits and veggies (have a huge kale/carrot/raisin/craisin/onion/cucumber/cabbage salad in the fridge all prepped for a week of yummy salads.

    Finish winter de-cluttering (I’ve made almost $100 just selling junk on the local Mom’s Swap page on fb)

  • Meme January 21, 2013 at 07:03 pm

    Growing up my dad always called things we didn’t want to do frogs. He would always tell us to “eat” our largest frog first. Then joke around with us once a chore was done or sending us to do one by saying ribbit ribbit. lol Your post just brought memories of that back.

    • Jamie at Prepared to Eat January 21, 2013 at 09:54 pm

      That’s a cute idea! Maybe the joke would keep my kids from complaining so much. :)

  • Lesley January 21, 2013 at 07:16 pm

    Going to join this week!

  • Lesley January 21, 2013 at 07:18 pm

    I am still trying to get a rhythm with goal setting. I spent the first whole week just working on forms that I have since tweaked a bit. However, just the IDEA of setting goals and tracking what I’m doing/supposed to do has already helped me greatly.

  • Lydia January 21, 2013 at 07:30 pm

    Here are my goals for the week.

    http://notafraidofthesnow.blogspot.com/2013/01/goals-week-of-january-21st.html

    I am trying to this year work on consistently exercising. Not so much to kill me that I don’t do it anymore. Just a gradual build that keeps me going.

  • Tiffany @ Wife.Mother.Teacher January 21, 2013 at 07:40 pm

    I always look forward to your weekly to do list – its so inspiring to hear about other mamma’s successes! :) Keep it up!

  • Kren January 21, 2013 at 07:56 pm

    I had a hard time with my goals this week. But I got other things done that wasn’t on my list.
    Here is a list of my goals this week. http://familiesaroundthekitchentable.blogspot.com/2013/01/priority-5-for-week-of-january-21-2013.html

  • Brenda Weatherly January 21, 2013 at 08:02 pm

    http://brendaweatherly.blog.com/2013/01/21/goals-for-jan-21-27/

    Family/Marriage/Mothering

    1. Take Tiffany on a date on Wednesday for her 15th Birthday! Celebrate her birthday with friends on Thursday!

    2. Listen to Bible 5 nights as a family

    3. Continue Love and Respect book with Mike

    Personal

    1. Walk 3 times (2 times with just Mike)

    2. Write our sponsor child

    3. Continue Little Women and Grace For The Good Girl and Cleaning House: A Mom’s Twelve-Month Experiment To Rid Her Home Of Youth Entitlement

    4, Memorize Romans 5:8 and Romans 10:9.

    Homemaking

    1. Make appt. with Kentucky Farm Bureau

    2. Bring bags to thrift store

    3. Rewrite/print out chore chart

    • Brandi January 21, 2013 at 08:29 pm

      Crystal~ how do you read books at mealtimes? Do you eat separate than the kiddos or are they audio books? Do you make the kiddos sit there until the chapter is done, what if they get done first?

    • Erin @ My Mommy World January 21, 2013 at 08:37 pm

      Hi Brenda! I read Cleaning House last year and loved it! I hope you enjoy it too :)

      • Brenda Weatherly January 21, 2013 at 08:56 pm

        I am still at the beginning and enjoying the premise of the book so far. Not sure what I think of her idea of having all that money in jars as incentive though. I’d have to redo my whole budget if I followed her advice since we have such a big family and limited extra income. But like I said, I’m still at the beginning of the book and hope to gain some new insights!

  • Melissa January 21, 2013 at 08:18 pm

    Here are my goals:

    http://www.momsplans.com/2013/01/my-weekly-goals-for-the-week-of-january-20-2013-and-an-update-on-last-weeks-goals/

    Good luck on reading all of those books, and safe travels!

  • Erin @ My Mommy World January 21, 2013 at 08:36 pm

    Congratulations on meeting all your goals! I hope you have safe trips and enjoy reading all those books….I would love to have a nice long flight on which to catch up on some of the books I want to read :)

    Here are my goals for this week:

    http://www.mymommyworld.com/2013/01/weekly-goals-some-scary-news-this-week/

  • K Quinn @ HMO January 21, 2013 at 09:23 pm

    Crystal your weekly goals have really inspired me to keep track of mine. I don’t write up absolutely everything I do but it has made me more productive. Thanks!

    http://homemakingorganized.com/blog/2013/01/weekly-goals-jan-21-2013/

  • Katie January 21, 2013 at 09:24 pm

    What an awesome list of books! It’s going to be a hectic week around here so my list is short and sweet to give myself some grace: http://www.ourhappilyeverafter219.blogspot.com

  • Jen @ OnlineDealsandCouponCodes January 21, 2013 at 09:43 pm

    Wow – you completed everything on your list for the week. Way to go!

  • Jamie at Prepared to Eat January 21, 2013 at 09:47 pm

    haha, I was wondering how you were possibly going to read that much! That sounds like a good use of flight time (not that I’ve ever flown!).

    I have a daily housework checklist and also a “room of the house” weekly checklist. That usually feels like a lot to handle without doing extra things. But I wonder if it’s time to re-examine how I set my goals. I think that will be my goal this week, to examine my checklists and goal setting on a weekly level. I have always admired how you set yours out. :)

  • April W January 21, 2013 at 10:30 pm

    Congrats on finishing your goals last week.

    I didn’t get through mine due to a child’s doctor appointments but here is to a new week.

    http://sugarandfun.blogspot.com/2013/01/weekly-goalsjan-21-2013.html

  • Lea Stormhammer January 21, 2013 at 11:20 pm

    I wrote out my goals today and posted them on my blog. You can read them here:

    http://lea-intherefinersfire.blogspot.com/2013/01/goals-for-week-of-january-20-2013.html

    Way to go Crystal! Love seeing that list all crossed off! I did a happy dance for you, just cuz I can. :)

    Lea

    • Crystal January 21, 2013 at 11:31 pm

      Aw, thank you for the happy dance. That made me smile. :)

  • Sharla @ Slacker Saver January 21, 2013 at 11:34 pm

    My goals for this week got off to a slow start today, but I already have my plan for tomorrow.

  • Jaclyn January 22, 2013 at 12:21 am

    Your goals and updates are as discouraging to me as they as encouraging. Haha. I wish I could do half of what you do! It took 2 hours to get our boys to bed tonight between potty breaks (which ALL were real), crying 1 year old and a bonked head. Maybe one day I will get more than the urgent done.

  • Jamie Rohrbaugh January 22, 2013 at 06:59 am

    Wow, your list is awesome, Crystal.
    I got a lot done last week, but I wore myself out and I’ve been sick in bed for the last two days. Ugh. :( So this week I felt like I ought to try something new for my goals. Someday I’ll learn??

    http://www.fromhispresence.com/2013/01/21/my-non-goals-for-this-week-january-20/

  • Carol@simple_catholic January 22, 2013 at 07:18 am

    Good for you for accomplishing all your goals this week! Classes start back up for me today so I’m keeping my goals super simple for a while:

    http://www.simplecatholicliving.com/goals-2/weekly-goals-24

    Blessings.

  • Heather @ My Mothermode January 22, 2013 at 08:26 am

    Wow! You did great. I’m still learning to set weekly goals that fit our schedule- not too much, not too little. Not only doing things early in the day, but early in the week, as well, seems to be the key for me. This week’s goals are linked up to my name.

  • Leah January 22, 2013 at 08:30 am

    I need to memorize a passage from Romans 1 too, but I didn’t put it on my goal list…ahh! I write mine down on a postcard and put it on the outside of our glass shower door, so I can memorize while I shower. I always say I do my best thinking in the shower and now I have a place to direct my thoughts.
    Here are my goals for the week: http://simplehomeblessing.com/on-the-agenda-january-22-2013/

    Have a wonderful week!

  • april January 22, 2013 at 11:08 am

    here’s mine for the week

    http://www.ithinkicansquared.blogspot.com/2013/01/weekly-goals_21.html

    hopefully since everyone is back where they need to be i have more time in the day, lol

  • Deanne Townshend January 22, 2013 at 11:10 am

    Yesterday, I tried doing the hardest things first, and I had more “free time” than I knew what to do with! I’m excited to keep working on the hard things this week too.

    http://deliketheletter.blogspot.com/2013/01/design-weekly-goals-jan-20-26.html

  • Chelsea January 22, 2013 at 01:49 pm

    I just got my goals for the week up. Have fun at your speaking engagements, they sound like so much fun!!

    http://stayathomemademom.com/2013/01/22/my-goals-for-this-week/

  • Rebecca January 22, 2013 at 01:49 pm

    Hi Crystal!

    I admire how much reading you all are doing as a family. A personal goal of mine this year is to read more and I would love to instill more of a love for reading into my children (ages 7 & 3). We do most of our reading at bedtime with them, but I am curious how you structure your day so you all are doing more throughout the day. I noticed you said you read at lunch – do you do this while you are seated at the table? Do you ask your children to set aside specific time to read on their own? Would love to hear you talk about this a little.

    Thanks so much!

  • Cricket @ Thrifty Texas Penny January 22, 2013 at 02:35 pm

    For the first time in a long while I’m feeling good about myself and what I’m accomplishing at home and with my personal goals! And I’ve been able to do it all by spending just 15-20 minutes a day :-)

    http://www.thriftytexaspenny.com/2013/01/goal-setting-and-15-minute-priorities-4.html

  • Michelle Murphy January 22, 2013 at 02:52 pm

    I am learning from you! I am only doing 10. I did more last week. I missed 2. LOL!

  • Emily January 22, 2013 at 03:57 pm

    Here are my goals:

    http://ourfrugalhappylife.blogspot.com/2013/01/my-9-weekly-goals_22.html

  • Pam January 22, 2013 at 04:09 pm

    I have posted my progress from last week and my goals for this week. I wasn’t feeling great a couple days, so I fell behind

    http://reorganizedsimplicity.blogspot.com/2013/01/my-goals-week-of-121.html

  • Nicole January 22, 2013 at 06:54 pm

    Here is what I’m working on this week:

    http://nicoleslifeafter20.blogspot.ca/2013/01/goals-for-week-january-21-2013.html

    I just love a new, empty week! Gets me all excited about tackling those goals!

    Safe travels this week!

  • Amanda January 22, 2013 at 09:20 pm

    My second week of making goals! Love the incentive and accountability. Thanks!!

    http://gregandmandi.blogspot.com/2013/01/goals-for-this-week.html

  • Erin@TheHumbledHomemaker January 22, 2013 at 10:40 pm

    I live about 30 minutes from where She Speaks is held! I hope you had a blast!

  • liz January 22, 2013 at 10:42 pm

    I love reading your goal posts! I have been doing weekly goals for this month and have been loving it! It is making such a big difference for me :)

  • Lisa January 24, 2013 at 01:13 pm

    Here are my goals for the week:

    http://simplythingsfamily.blogspot.com/2013/01/weekly-goals-january-21-2013.html

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