Priorities...

Here I am, just like every other year, rethinking my priorities. 

Each year I review the failures and successes I have walked through the previous year and try to plan the next year better than the last. This year has been super hard. I think most of us have struggled through this crazy year in one way or another. I want to take the time to honor my future self by learning and making changes today, instead of making reactionary choices later. You are welcome future Tammy...

This year I am working on prioritizing my time with God, my family, my self and my time at home. 

I am a social creature, I am fed by social interaction ... helping others ... spending time with people. Having to stay home and be more isolated has deeply affected my heart. I have been depressed, lonely and literally dying to get out, needing to be needed by people. This is what I want to change. 

Don’t get me wrong, I am not planning to change the most fundamental parts of my personality, I am going to simply try to learn other ways to fill my cup. 

This year, I am going to organize. I know, I know, if you know me personally, I have said this a million times. This year it is different. I am organizing everything.

No, seriously, its different... 

I am pretty organized in a lot ways, in some ways I am not organized at all, but I want to find new, more efficient ways to get and stay organized, stay positive and keep on top of things. I have a lot of “stuff” so I need to focus on purging and simplifying in that way. I do a lot of “things” in a lot of different places in my life, I would like to schedule and take care of those things more efficiently and stop procrastinating. 

What are all of the things that fill my time? Well... Let me think... I am a wife, a homeschooling mama to 6 kiddos, Women’s Ministry director at my church, the director of a homeschool co-op, a ministry student and a social butterfly, to name a few. It is a challenge to fit it all in sometimes. 

I am not waiting until New Years to start my goals, I am starting today. 

I am making two big changes right out of the gate. 

Change one: I am going to make a new schedule for my day to day and homeschooling. This is the perfect time to reorganize this aspect of my life because I have my kids on a January to December schedule. Starting January we will be starting a new school year, a few kids are starting as new curriculum and my next class starts in the middle of the month. 

I will ride on the coat tails of this natural change. It feels a little bit like when I write a task on my to do list, after I have already completed it, just so I can cross it off... Success... I will post more later about how I plan to organize my day. 

Change two: Get up earlier! I HATE waking up early. Seriously, this might be the hardest change to stick to. I struggle with sleep, so waking up early takes a really long adjustment period. I will admit, the times I have stuck to waking up early, I have been more productive and efficient with my time. It’s just the getting up part that sucks. 

I have about a million other things on my list. I cant wait to check them off!!

This is going to be a long hard road, but I am excited about making changes. Hopefully I will remember to make blog posts about it as I go so I can share these changes with you.

I definitely need encouragement and accountability! 

Lots of Love, 

Tammy