I want to know what your "small steps" are! Share yours, I'm sharing mine and maybe we can help accomplish each others'! Research shows that sharing your goals with even one other person helps keep yourself reliable to make the change. Share with all of us and make the change you want to see in your life!
For Myself:
1. Take more time to relax
2. Don't overdo the activities; I can be well rounded without doing EVERYTHING
3. Do things because I want to do them, not because someone wants me to
For My Friendships:
1. Make time for friends
2. Write more letters and notes/ make more videos
3. Don't get caught up in myself so much; show how much I care for my friends
For My Health (physical, mental, and spiritual):
1. SLEEP
2. Try to run through my calf injury, but don't push it too hard
3. Read more devotionals and scripture throughout the week; God isn't just for Sundays
For My Wealth
1. Try to leave some open space in my schedule for babysitting
2. Kick the impulse buying habit (now that's a hard one!)
3. Saving > Spending
For My Education and Career
1. Study, Study, Study
2. Don't procrastinate!
3. Get back into learning ASL
For My Footprint on the World (what I want to accomplish or how I want to be remembered):
1. Focus on being kinder
2. Reduce my use of gossip and sarcasm
3. Only doing things I'm passionate about, and do them to the fullest
Wow Kelsey! You are on top of things! I have figured out how to make a comment to a post but haven't figured out how to actually write my own !! Al least I made two positive small steps. One to sign up for the blog and 2 I learned how to make a comment 3 now to figure out how to post my own comment!
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ReplyDelete1. Work hard, but don't get stressed.
2. Find time to do as much as I can without being overwhelmed.
3. Don't slack off.
Friendships
1. Discover time to spend with those special people.
2. Keep in contact with those people.
3. Keep on expanding my connections, and range of friends.
Staying Healthy
1. RUN, RUN, RUN, RUN, AND RUN SOME MORE
2. Eat healthily, and don't overeat.
3. Push my body to the limit. Increase my work capacity so I can get more done without getting hurt.
Saving Money
1. Help my parents save by not forcing them to spend money we don't need to.
2. Work hard in school to get scholarships.
3. Save the energy/water bill.
Preparing for the future.
1. Go hard studying, leading, and athleting (haha, I made up a word!)
2. Ponder what it is I want to do with my life and set a path to do it!
3. Stay on course.
Changing the world.
1. Find a way to change the world.
2. Go out an make that change happen!
3. Leave a lasting legacy in many different areas of life...not just one.
For Myself:
ReplyDelete1. Stop overextending myself.
2. Find more things to smile about each day (or less to frown at!)
3. Find time to just sit and reflect.
For My Friendships:
1. Actually call people when I want to talk (texting doesn't do communication justice)
2. Make excuses to hang out
3. Don't lose touch with people I haven't seen for a while.
For My Health (physical, meantal, and spiritual):
1. ZUMBA (and if not, dancing like no one is watching at home)
2. Stop eating things I KNOW I'll regret later.
3. I have already read the picture-filled kiddie Bible I really need to tackle the big girl one, even if it is in only ten chapters a day.
For My Wealth:
1. Get a piggy bank and USE IT.
2. Don't buy things I know I don't need.
3. Study so I can have the future I want
For My Education and Career:
1. Visit colleges. Find out who will offer me what and where I can study what I want.
2. Start figuring out which things I do make me happy - I'll enjoy studying.
3. Stop finding excuses to procrastinate.
For My Footprint on the World:
1. Keep studying for TeenREACH so I can be the best Planned Parenthood mentor and take my knowledge with me.
2. Find new ways to engage my Friends In Music kids.
3. Find more things I care about and organizations that can help me support them.