Righteous Resolutions

Charles and I have thought a lot about our resolutions for 2012 for ourselves and for our family. We have prayed about them and decided to share our goals with the world and see if we can keep our resolutions or not! We decided to make righteous resolutions for our family and ourselves because Elder M. Russell Ballard said:

"I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the technique of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When you learn to master the principle of setting a goal, you will then be able to make a great difference in the results you attain in this life.

I would suggest that if you want to have success in the goal-setting process, you learn to write your goals down. I would even put them in a prominent place—on your mirror or on the refrigerator door."
*Quote from Go for It! - New Era - March 2004

So, here they are! In a prominent place, my BLOG!

Austin Family Goals - 2012

1. Read from the Book of Mormon every single day
2. Read the entire Book of Mormon as a family
3. Have FHE each Monday, no excuses
4. Family prayer each morning and night, on our knees.
5. Be full tithe payers for the entire year.
6. Pay off some debt. This is one way, finances information, and One for the Money: Guide to Family Finances, by Marvin J. Ashton, Revised Nov. 2006
7. Go to the temple 4 times. It's a lot to go every month with 3 kiddos! So we decided that once a quarter we'd attend the temple!
8. Spend time each night as a family for an hour or so.

Some of our other goals that are more temporal than spiritual are these:

1. Get healthy! - Changing the way we eat, the foods we eat, managing portion control, and cutting down on the sweets (Carie) and pop (Charles).
2. Get fit! - Carie is going to go to Zumba on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday each week while running on Tuesday and Thursday. Charles is going to start lifting (M, W, F) and running (T, Th).
3. Get the remodel done upstairs - Girls' room and art studio are almost done, our bedroom still needs a lot of work. Getting all these rooms done will enable us to start on the downstairs in 2013!
4. Plant our garden - We have been slack about it for the past two years, times are getting tough, food is getting more expensive, so we need to get a-planting!
5. Start using more coupons! - We are taking some coupon classes and watching some DVDs on it!
6. Make the change to Cloth Diapers - We will save over $800 this year when we buy cloth! It will be expensive to purchase all the things needed, but with our income tax money, we will be able to invest in saving money for the rest of our parenting/diapering years with all our current and future children!

This list is not absolutely everything we want for our goals for the year, but they are the ones we feel are the best to share and inspire others! We are looking forward to a wonderful 2012 and all that it has in store for us as individuals and as a family!
 

Happy New Year!