New Years Goals

I already briefly posted about my New Year Resolution and I really haven't gotten them all figured out yet. But basically it is to become more organized in physical, thought and life.

And this year I want to actually follow through with my wishes. So writing things down and then following through. Someone famous somewhere said if you write down a goal you have a high percentage(like 95% of doing it.) And that was with simply writing it down and never revisiting it! Pretty powerful stuff. I’ve gotten other ideas rattling in my brain as to specifics for goals in each of the 5 areas of my life(physical, spiritual, relationships, work(homeschool), personal, ) But for now I wanted to get this quick post off to write down I want to be a “follow thorugh-er” and more organized this year!

Willow

PS After a bit of searching I found the study I was thinking about here

2011 Reading goal

20,000 pages Yep you read that right. Here's how it happened:
At New Years a friend of my posted on Facebook how her goal for last year was to read 20,000 pages and she read 22,000. I thought it was a very interesting goal. I began January with a similar goal of 20,000 pages. I figured that woul dbe easy since I had 11 book club books and plenty of homeschooling books to read and plenty of books to preread for my 6 year old voracious reading habit.
Also I am following a mother's education class by Katrina here I have intended to do it in years past and have done pretty well for parts of the year. This year I wanted to do better and follow through all year.
In Feb I received a kindle for my birthday and this suddenly made the goal easy. Maybe too easy in fact, I may need to increase the page goal for the later half of the year. I haven't finished compiling the list of what I have read, but I'm guessing it will be high. I struggled in January to write down the books I read with the page number in a spread sheet. It just wasn't very conducive to my life. I'm learning I need to simplify things in order to get them done. Thankfully the kindle has done that and now I just need to go through my kindle contents and see what I have read. I'll be posting the listing shortly. In pieces. To keep. it. simple.