Words To Live By

Time for some goals?

Better late than never, she said.

So my vision for twenty-eleven seems to be far reaching.

I know goals are better written down in detail, with achievable milestones and measurable outcomes.

Why do I know this?

Because I went to college.

Not to become a counselor mind you, but to become a dietitian.

So basically to become a counselor.

Anyways...back to the goals.

Mine aren't so quantifiable this year.

In fact I don't even know if I have any true goals to be set.

Instead I have come up with a few words to live by if you will.

They seem to encompass all of the values, visions, and hopes I have for myself and my family at this time in my life.

So even though they aren't all measurable and such, I wanted to document them for the world and my own two little eyes to see so that someone can be held accountable a few months down the road.

So without further adieu, Taryn's words to live by in 2011:

Read

- for pleasure more

- for revelation more

- for enlightenment more

- to my daughter more

Serve

- my husband

- my daughter

- my neighbor

- the strangers I pass each each day on the street

- in my calling at Church

Healthy

- exercise more, worry about the way I look less

- cook more new foods in new and exciting ways

- more real, less processed

Self

- explore new talents, refine old ones

- find passion

Time

- be wise with it

- use it to do accomplish the things  listed above

- Early to bed, early to rise

- more spent talking, less spent typing

Simplify

- organize, organize, organize

- do more with less

- get rid of all the "stuff"

So those are just a few things I want out of 2011.

All those thoughts could be viewed as a little much, a little overwhelming.

But I am just thinking of it all in terms of 6 little words.

Let's get started, shall we?