Goals 2/3-2/9

Weekly goals have been a major part of how I am trying to keep my life balanced and become a better me. If you'd like to join me, feel free to write goals in the comments (or even link to your blog where you have them written down) and check back in next week when I do my Weekly Goal Recap. If your goals are too personal, write them down where it is convenient for you, but check in with me and let me know if you met them or not so that we can help each other. You're more likely to accomplish goals with you (1) write them down (2) tell someone else about them. Here are my goals for this week:

Mental Health: I'm continuing on with reading this book. Although, I just received this beauty

 and I found out I'll be moving the day before book club. Boo :( . I was the one that talked my book club into reading this book, haha, whoops!

This one week push up in our moving date means I have a whole bunch  more to do this week! So, my goals are to decide FOR SURE NO TAKE BACKS if we will drive one car or ship both, decide if we are going to use PODS or ABF, and schedule movers to help us load and unload. No. Big. Deal. (Help me!)

Physical Health: You know when you start a week and you just know it is going to be a crazy week. That's how I felt this morning before I even got out of bed...before I even received that text up there. So my goal for this week is to make it to the gym 3 times. I'd be less stressed if I could do the full 5 days, but an important part of goal setting is to set obtainable goals. Also, I'm all about goals motivating you, not making you feel like crap. 

This week's menu:

• Still never did the CFA nuggets. We always do frozen chicken and I keep forgetting to pull some out so it can thaw!
• This potato casserole, with green salad. 
• BBQ chicken in the crock pot, side of steamed vegetables
• Pasta salad (cook the colored spiral noodles, add olives, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and pour Italian dressing over it...you can also add cheese)
• Ravioli, it's just the frozen kind from Costco (again, it's going to be a crazy week!), green salad

Emotional Health: If you read my goal recap, you know I'm keeping it real. So this week, again, my goal is to do 2 out of the ordinary, nice acts for K.

Spiritual Health: See recap for keeping it really real :), I want to continue with my scripture journal and remember to pray in the mornings. 

(We're also giving talks on Sunday...I thought about making this my goal, but I know I'm going to do that anyways. I hope my week isn't so hard I need to start setting goals like "Sleep": Check!)

ALRIGHT! Hit me with it! What are your goals for this week?

Extra question: has anyone ever used PODS or ABF? Any opinions?

Goals 1/27-2/2

Weekly goals have been a major part of how I am trying to keep my life balanced and become a better me. If you'd like to join me, feel free to write goals in the comments (or even link to your blog where you have them written down) and check back in next week when I do my Weekly Goal Recap. If your goals are too personal, write them down where it is convenient for you, but check in with me and let me know if you met them or not so that we can help each other. You're more likely to accomplish goals with you (1) write them down (2) tell someone else about them. Here are my goals for this week:

Mental Health: I've started a new book called The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom. He is one of my favorite authors. This is the book my book club has chosen for this month and I'm really excited to read it.
I'm also starting to get everything in order for when we move to Chicago next month. This week I am hoping to nail down the exact health insurance plan J and I will have. If I can I'll even start the application process, but my major goal is to just decide what I want to do.

Physical Health: I'm sticking with my same goal of going to the gym 5 times this week. Last week I planned out what I would do each day and I even stuck to that plan, but I don't want to do that this week. As long as I go I am meeting my goal. I'm all about the endorphins and nothing more!

This week's menu is looking like this:

• Baked potatoes (I never did the twice baked from last week)
• Beef Noodle Casserole
• CFA nuggets (again, never did these last week)
• Southwest Chopped Salad If you've never made this you HAVE TO! I love it so much and so does K because it has meat in it...he digs salads, but he digs salads more when they have meat!
• Pad Thai (I'm doing the straight from the box kind. I like to have a really easy dinner on Mondays because it is already a pretty crazy day. I use the Thai Kitchen brand)

Emotional Health: K and I noticed last night that we both want to do better with our relationship. For some reason when things get crazy at work or with J, the first thing we sacrifice is our relationship. It's the most important relationship in the family, but the first we let go to the wayside. So this week I want to do at least 2 out of the ordinary nice things for him. 

Spiritual Health: I'm going to continue with my scripture journal, I'm for reals loving this thing! I really need to explain more in its own post. I also want to make sure I start my day off with prayer. I'm good about praying over meals and before bed, but I usually forget in the mornings. When I taught high school I had a 30 minute commute and so I got in the habit of praying on my way to work. Since I don't work anymore, I don't have that time by myself in the mornings, so that's my goal for this week!

I would love to hear your goals for this week. They don't have to fit into my categories and can be as small or big as you want!

Goals For 1/20-1/26

Mental Health: This week I want to try to come under budget in our groceries so that I can have a little play money when I go to visit Sister #2 on the weekend.

Physical Health: I have been doing awesome at going to the gym 5 times a week so far this year. I want to continue onward with that.

• Monday: Aquafit
• Tuesday: bike/treadmill and legs
• Wednesday: Yoga
• Thursday: bike/treadmill and arms
• Friday: maybe Aquafit? I'll see what Sister #1 wants to do

This beauty is after my first time doing Aquafit! It's not just for old ladies people! It's a great workout, with low impact...I'll have to tell you more later :)

I'm trying out a few new recipes this week. I used to think, "How did women make dinner without the internet?" Now I think, "How did I make dinner without Pinterest?"

• CFA copycat chicken nuggets with honey mustard sauce! I really hope this works because that is pretty much THE reason we go to CFA...I'll have to let you know.
• Twice baked potatoes. This will be a first time for me, so if anyone has a good recipe, feel free to pass it along. As of now I'm just using this one that good ole' google found me. Does this really take almost 2 hours to do? Because, lets be honest, most of my dinners take about 20 minutes to prepare!
• Crock pot teriyaki chicken. (open crockpot, insert frozen chicken, pour sauce, come back in 7 hours :))
• And something else that will come to me as I'm walking through Fred Meyers.

Spiritual Health: I started a scripture journal last week, so I'm hoping to continue on with that. I just read a chapter each day and then write the biggest thing that stood out to me from it. It's definitely turned my scripture study from checking off a chapter and walking away, to really thinking about what I'm reading and how I can apply it to my life! Plus, it's always fun to go back and read journals later! (note: I am the worst journal keeper ever, this is a true experiment that may crash and burn by the end of this week).

Feel free to write your goals in the comments below, I always do way better on my goals when I have people to hold me accountable!