Yep, no New Year's resolutions here. Ongoing lists of goals, and I re-evaluate how I'm doing at the beginning of each school term, so coincidentally in that process right now at New Year's time. A major goal is to keep a good portion of my focus on goals that will benefit others as well as me. It's so easy to get caught up in working on things keeping in good physical shape.
Some of my ongoing personal goals:
--Keep my grades up.
--Get in better physical shape/lose some weight.
--Be a more organized parent/spouse.
--Go to mass more regularly.
--Work on writing--lots of ongoing writing projects, some for my daughter, some for my friends. Most recent new project is a blog on being a woman gun owner. Haven't done much with it yet, but probably will do a lot over the next several months. Lots of theological writing, some for eventual publication.
--Be a more helpful friend. Lots of friends with small kids, and we all help each other out. I always try to be at least as helpful as they are.
--Keep up frequent visits to parents, in-laws, and my grandmother. New goal this year is to start calling my sister-in-law. I don't know her well, but she likes to just chat on the phone. I'm not a big telephone person, but I'll meet her halfway in teh interest of keeping family as close as possible.
--Keep on practicing practical skills--sewing, car maintenance, thrifty housekeeping, food preservation, shooting. The newest ones are knitting and reloading. I don't have time for everything, but I try to at least keep a toe in the water with all those skills.
I do have one time-limited goal: I gotta shoot a 25/25 in trap before summer. Been working on that one for a couple months now.
