Goal Setting for the New Year, instead of Resolutions!!!!!!!

I love Money Saving Mom's Weekly Goal Planning Sheet for so many reasons. One of those reasons is my biggest pet peeve about starting a new year is, New Year's Resolutions. I just feel they set WAY too many people up for disappointment. I personally like the idea of smaller achievable goal setting (which is what this is). I love the whole idea and I feel so much better on the weeks that I use one of these sheets and it really is SO simply. Another thing I love about the sheet is YOU create your own categories!!! So if you want to create a goal in your family life, personal life, whatever it is you can add it. Try this for ONE week, I do not think that you will be disappointed. In an upcoming blog post I will also share my goals with you and then revisit them in one week.

Here are some examples of my weekly goals:

Category: Family

Spend more time with my mom

Go on a date night with my husband (plan and organize)

Be in the moment and play with my daughter, or go on a date with my daughter

Category: Health

Take three walks this week.

Take a multi. vit. and Emergency C to help my immune system.

Now I know these sound so simply but if I make them goals and I achieve them by the end of the week, I truly feel better about my accomplishments. On a personal note since my Dad died, the only thing I look back on with him is that I wished I could have spent more time with him.





Money Saving Mom

I am determined to get this blog up and running again. I am picking it up and putting back on its own two feet. TONS of stuff to tell you about. I'll start with sharing a link. About 6 months or so ago a friend of mine told me about a website that is like a blog. It is ALL about SAVING money, using coupons to pay less for stuff, paying CASH for things (now there is a concept! :-) It would be safe to say that I have paid TONS of attention to the blog, I have a bunch of feeds to it on my igoogle. Here is the basic premise, this one lady runs this webiste, she and other bloggers post to her website ALL of the very BEST deals at all the stores in the whole entire country!!!! I think she has them ALL. I have feeds on my igoogle to Target, CVS specifically. With the economy the way it has been we figure this is a good time to pay attention to what we are doing with our money. So Money Saving Mom is the website that I am telling you about. You should really check it out, even if all you do is check out the supermarket you shop at weekly, then you will know the best deals to be had there. There are many more great things about the site but I'll save some of those for a future post.

Future posts:
Money Saving Mom's coupon database,
Lumberjack Festival (pictures to come, if I can remember.....ahhh it's like riding a bike right!)
Why I've been away from my blog for SOOOO long!