I tried something new with my goal-making this year. My New Year's Resolutions were a series of things I wanted to do more of, but without promising myself I'd do them literally everyday from now on. I posted five 3x5 cards on a wall and any day I accomplished one of the goals, I put a tick mark. Each goal had 14 days on it and once I got to 5 ticks on each day, that meant I accomplished the goal 70 times.
We're very nearly half-way through the year (June 30 is 180 days). I've got 3 goals done (finished one today) and I'm shooting for a fourth by June 30. I've added some more goals in between, and each time I finish a goal I replace it with another. I also reward myself for every 7 days I complete a certain goal.
Most days I get to put 2-4 tick marks up. Once the kids are in bed, if Joy is otherwise occupied, the board of goals is one of the first places I go to figure out what I want to do next. And because I start fresh every day, there's no guilt at having "broken resolutions". I don't have an end date by which I have to have completed any of the goals. This is just something I want to work on and incorporate into my life more.
So all in all, I think it's been a good system. I've learned some unexpected things about how to manage myself in the process too.
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