I love new beginnings!  And I am determined to take full advantage of this one.  Would you like to join me?  We will be setting goals and making plans in 5 steps, each day addressing a different area of life.  Here’s a brief overview for the week:

Monday:  Spiritual

Tuesday:  Relationships

Wednesday:  Professional

Thursday:  Physical

Friday:  Financial

Each day you are going to need a spiral notebook and a 2011 calendar.  For Monday I will also need my scriptures, a purse size spiral notebook (for my new prayer journal), and a hymn book.

Monday:  Spiritual

Today is the day I deeply consider my relationship with Jesus Christ and how I will deepen and broaden it over the year.  I will set goals for daily scripture study, prepare a new prayer journal, and develop a plan for what I will teach my children in our daily devotions this year.  I will also write a calendar of prayers to pray for my husband as the spiritual leader and head of our home and make a list of 12 books that I will read, one a month.  I hope to memorize a weekly scripture with my children and learn all the verses to one hymn a month.  I will choose these today also, as having a plan is half the battle to executing it.

Although my goals will be specific, they will be small.  Anything that I do will be an improvement over last year!  And I realize that if I reach too high I will become discouraged and not change anything at all.