Ever notice how life seems to whizzzzzz by? It seems as though those things that are important get crowded out by the urgent. This became so very clear to me yesterday. My mother died. I had been intending to print some photos and send them to her, but it was put off. It is too late now. It was just a little thing, but it could have brightened her days, and I feel badly that I missed that opportunity. It really wouldn't have taken THAT much effort.
How about you? Are the important things getting crowded out? As we are preparing to go from a household with one easy going child to become a household of four children in about a year and a half span - three of them with special needs and from a hard place - it becomes obvious that I need to be more intentional about my days. I need to do a better job of prioritizing and making sure the "little things" that really are important don't get crowded out.
I had already been reflecting upon this past year, and how to make the coming year one that really focuses on the important when I got my all too real reminder yesterday of the shortness of life. Instead of "resolutions" which I seem to keep for maybe two weeks, I'm looking at goals for the coming year. I'm actually taking a huge hunk of today - choosing the important over the urgent - to write out an evaluation of where I am and where I want to be in 2014. I'm using the SMART approach to goal setting:
**S – specific
**M – measurable
**A – attainable
**R – realistic
**T – time-based
If you'd like to join in, Motherhood on a Dime had a good printable for mapping out goals FOUND HERE.
Then I came upon a "Do-able Life Change Plan" today and thought it was so good that I printed THREE COPIES to put in the places in my home where I will most frequently see them and be reminded. These twenty-five points are explained in the post by the author, Ann. Check it out. You just may find something helpful here. She has the printable reminders in a variety of colors!
25 Point Sanity Manifesto
