Monday, January 4, 2021 Planning, Pondering, Praying

Happy New Year! It’s deeply ingrained in my psyche to think about new beginnings, goals and resolutions at this time of year. As a family, we used to have a form that we each filled out on December 31 (or thereabouts) with space for resolutions in five areas:

Spiritual
Physical/Heath
Personal
Hobbies to Pursue/Skills to Learn
Miscellaneous

Like most people, I start out well, but some things peter out over time. It’s dangerous territory to resolve to do something daily; if you skip one day: BOOM – game over. However, I still love to take time to think strategically about the year ahead in each of those areas and to make plans, holding them all in subjection to Christ. As I always used to tell my kids, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail!” Ha ha – just the kind of thing that parents love to say and that kids hate to hear.

With that in mind, here are some of the things I’m thinking about for 2021:

Take some online courses: art, literature, maybe history
Goodreads Book Reading Challenge: 100 books
Blogging: what to do? M-F again? More specific writing goals? Keep it random?
Bible: continue with Bible Reading Challenge (in my fourth year of this)
Exercise: 3-4 times per week
Continue with Hiking Club: 40 miles more this year?
Knitting: gotta start using up my stash. One project a month?
House: get rid of stuff. One room per month?

My daughter helped me go through stuff in the craft room while she was here, which gave me a good start on that last item. We’d like to downsize at some point and definitely don’t want to bring all the accumulation of the last 15 years with us. Here’s the first bin of give-away for 2021:

Lord willing, it will be followed by many more.

What are your plans for 2021? Let me know if you have thoughts about this blog, too.

I’ll probably delete this in the morning…