Goal Setting..

How many of you set goals at the beginning of each year?  Perhaps some call them resolutions…I refuse to set resolutions, the name alone screams FAILURE to me.  But goals, I can handle that word I think.

So, what are some of your goals for 2013?  I have a couple.  First and foremost, I want to be happy.  Happy here in the desert, where God has put us.  I truly believe that Carl and I are HERE for a reason.  I have a harder time believing that when it’s 100 degrees with no cool down in sight during the summertime, but maybe that’s when I need to believe even more.  And the wind is a problem for us, today is especially chilly and windy and I want to take a short walk.  I have a hard time walking in this wind, it hurts my ears but maybe the answer to that is wear a scarf around my ears to help and keep my head warm at the same time.

Speaking of walking, that is probably the only kind of exercise that I can make myself do at a regular interval.  Some days it really hurts to walk, but on those days that it does not, I need to get out there and walk.  It’s really the perfect exercise for almost everyone, next to swimming..How many of you make a point of taking a walk on a daily  basis.  I envy those who have the money and fortitude to head to a gym, that is just not my ‘thing’ so no use even trying.  At my age I know what I will follow through with, and what I won’t do, and that is one of them.

I turn 60 this upcoming June.  I don’t want to look like ‘this’.  I am finding with my fibro and my extra weight that I am having a hard time physically caring for my baby grandchildren when I am with them.  I hate to admit they wear me out.  I love them so, so much but I need to get in better shape to be able to care for them when Scott and Lainie need us to.  So, the goal I have is to walk, and lose some weight before my 60th birthday on June 21st.  Can I do it?  Yes, I can do it.  I HAVE to do it.  Enough is enough.  I don’t know how much weight I will lose by June, but I will lose something.  The person I look like is not the person inside of me.  The person inside of me has energy and fortitude to spare..the person on the outside, bleh..

I have one other goal.  To get my home in an organized state.  It’s terrible right now, we have too much ‘stuff’ and I can’t even get my sewing area organized.  I am getting tired of spinning my wheels, so to speak.  I spend as much time looking for rulers, rick rack, patterns, etc…than I do sewing.  Makes me crazy!  If anyone has an organizing fairy they can send my way, I would be grateful!

Have a wonderful and productive day

So, how about YOU?  Care to join me in setting a goal?