I belong to a wonderful message board for Christian moms. I’d share the website but it is my personal place to go and I don’t want to share it. 🙂
Some of the ladies choose a word each new year to live that year.
Some of them choose things like peace and glorify and intentional. Some of them choose it for their Christian walk, some choose it for just how they want to live their life that year, some for other reasons.
I don’t normally do it. Just not my thing. I changed my mind this year.
My word to live for the year is determination.
Now, anyone who knows me will tell you I normally am pretty determined anyway. But this year, I want to focus that on three major areas.
-Financially—I want to pay off my smallest student loan. I want to keep the savings account at no less than $500 at most times.
-Physically–I want to lose 20 pounds and keep it off. I have been pretty lazy recently. With nursing, I can eat pretty much whatever. That needs to change as Abby will start the weaning process next month.
-Materially–I want to declutter this house to the extreme. In fact, I want to get rid of about a fourth of our stuff. The house is fairly small with little storage space. We only have the one child and no more on the way right now but we do want to keep expanding our family at some point. There is no place to put another child or all the stuff that comes with more children. There isn’t even space to put the things that Abby has outgrown, like the swing and bouncey seat. I want to not have to shove stuff in corners of the basement and closets anymore this year.
All of these are things I have said before. However, this year I plan to live the “determination” and get them done.
What about you? What is one word you want to live for the year?
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