Life as it Happens or Make Life Happen?
This morning we had another great Mentoring Mothers meeting. It was all about goal-setting (and a bunch of other stuff in between). It made me really think about my goals and what I really do want to achieve each day and in my life. I stumbled upon a new favorite blog in the process of finding good fodder for the discussion today. It's fabulous! One of my favorite quotes from there states something like this: "Don't get so caught up in doing the mundane that you fail to do the miraculous." I like that. I want to implement that frame of thinking more in my day to day living.
The author of this blog also uses the phrase, "intentional motherhood." Are we letting time, life and craziness happen or are we making things happen in our day that are good,wholesome, and rewarding?
I have big goals, dreams, wishes...whatever you want to call them. I do. So big that sometimes my husband just laughs and has to pull me out of the clouds and back to planet earth (like the time I dreamed our family could ride bikes across country some day....could happen....maybe). ??? Anyway, I think I just don't want to look back and say these phrases:
I wish I had....
Where did the time go?
What did I do back then?
How did I get here?
What did I accomplish?
etc....etc...etc....
Intentional living. Making plans. Setting goals. Doing things instead of just dreaming things (okay, still standing on solid ground...easily distracted). I was reminded about one aspect of goal-setting this morning. Goals need to be attainable, realistic, worthwhile and have a timetable. As said before I am a planner...but what if the planning weren't so far out there in the future, but more day to day. Big goals are GREAT and necessary, but not at the expense of and really, only as a guide for what can be happening today.
I love,love, love this post from Kat at Inspired to Action on How to be an Amazing Mom Today:
Step 1: (1 minute) Write down 1 characteristic you want to describe you as a mom.
Step 2: (1 minute) Write down 1 characteristic you hope your children have as they go off to college.
Step 3: (3 minutes) Write down 2 simple ways you can invest in those today.
Don’t over think it. Just write it. Then do it.
The author of this blog also uses the phrase, "intentional motherhood." Are we letting time, life and craziness happen or are we making things happen in our day that are good,wholesome, and rewarding?
I have big goals, dreams, wishes...whatever you want to call them. I do. So big that sometimes my husband just laughs and has to pull me out of the clouds and back to planet earth (like the time I dreamed our family could ride bikes across country some day....could happen....maybe). ??? Anyway, I think I just don't want to look back and say these phrases:
I wish I had....
Where did the time go?
What did I do back then?
How did I get here?
What did I accomplish?
etc....etc...etc....
Intentional living. Making plans. Setting goals. Doing things instead of just dreaming things (okay, still standing on solid ground...easily distracted). I was reminded about one aspect of goal-setting this morning. Goals need to be attainable, realistic, worthwhile and have a timetable. As said before I am a planner...but what if the planning weren't so far out there in the future, but more day to day. Big goals are GREAT and necessary, but not at the expense of and really, only as a guide for what can be happening today.
I love,love, love this post from Kat at Inspired to Action on How to be an Amazing Mom Today:
Step 1: (1 minute) Write down 1 characteristic you want to describe you as a mom.
Step 2: (1 minute) Write down 1 characteristic you hope your children have as they go off to college.
Step 3: (3 minutes) Write down 2 simple ways you can invest in those today.
Don’t over think it. Just write it. Then do it.
Thanks for the pep talk.
ReplyDeleteReminded me of this quote:
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau