“The brand new yr stands earlier than us, like a chapter in a guide, ready to be written. We may help write that story by setting objectives.” – Melody Beattie

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Should you would have advised me 10 years in the past that I might be the place I’m immediately:

1. Running a blog on-line for 10 years! At present marks 10 years, HOLY COW MAN!
2. Dwelling in New England, in my dream house.
3. Married, for 24 years this summer time will probably be 25!
4. Doing one thing I LOVE rug hooking, pottery, gardening and making a aspect revenue from it.
5. Content material.

For those who would have informed me 10 years in the past that I might be the place I’m immediately, I might have BELIEVED YOU. I wouldn’t have recognized precisely how I might have gotten there, however I might have believed that it was potential. If there was one thing on the market I actually needed, I might have gone for it. I might have made a plan and labored on a regular basis to succeed in it.

By no means EVER be afraid to set objectives. It’s the way you get from level A to level B. Dream Massive. Maintain your self accountable. Make it occur. DO NOT GIVE UP. Do you hear me?

DO. NOT. GIVE. UP.

“Mavis, I might like to see a submit on the nuts and bolts of the way you set objectives (sorry in the event you’ve already completed this and I missed it). I set objectives yearly, however yearly I wrestle with sticking to my listing. I’m wondering if I’m together with too many issues I really feel like I must be doing somewhat than issues I need to do.

I understand that publicly stating your objectives goes an extended method to holding you accountable, however you do appear tremendous profitable in truly assembly these objectives, so I’m interested in your course of — how do you stability what makes your remaining listing? Thanks for any enter!” ~OregonGuest

I wrote a weblog submit about The way to Hold Your New Yr’s Resolutions a number of years in the past you’ll find it HERE however truthfully, I Simply GO FOR IT. I dream huge, I plan huge, and I make it occur. Perhaps that sounds over assured. Perhaps it’s simply my character sort. Perhaps it’s not likely concerning the aim I set for myself as a lot as it’s with the ability to tick the field once I accomplish the factor I got down to do. I want it was one thing extra profound than that. However it isn’t.

My 22 Objectives for 2019

My 22 Objectives for 2019

Objective #1 — Spend Extra Time Doing What I Love

No extra every day deal posts. Nicely, besides a couple of on Saturdays within the weekly highlights publish. But when a unprecedented deal like 16 ounces of vanilla extract for $14 comes alongside once more, I’ll ensure and inform you about it. Not typing up day by day offers will imply I can flip my full consideration to cleansing up some issues on the again finish of the weblog that want my consideration earlier than gardening season hits.

It’s not like I need to make any sweeping modifications with the weblog, it’s simply…. I don’t know, it’s time to reside extra within the second. Life, it’s so brief, and on the finish of the week, I don’t need to look again and know that I spent 10 hours of it posting on-line offers. I need to spend my early morning hours just a little extra leisurely, feeding the chickens, enjoying with Lucy or engaged on artwork tasks.

Aim #2 — Backyard, Backyard, Backyard

If final summer time right here in New England taught me something, it was that I actually wanted to be outdoors working within the backyard on the daybreak earlier than the warmth and humidity and BLACK FLIES hit moderately than inside posting offers in the course of the early morning hours.

Though I spent a whole lot of time in my backyard final yr, most of it was spent preventing off ticks and mosquitoes, digging new backyard beds, and enjoying catch up. I really feel like I didn’t get to truly do a lot of the enjoyable stuff. This yr, I need to do the enjoyable stuff.  Like….

Aim #three — Plant an Orchard

Apples, Pears and Plums. I do not know the place we’re going to put the timber but, however I’d like at the very least 6 wholesome and nicely positioned fruit timber within the floor by the top of spring.

Aim #four — Gussy Up the Potting Shed

This can be a image of me standing in our potting shed final March proper after we moved in. And that is precisely what it nonetheless seems like at present. I’m unsure why I by no means received round to getting the shed organized or a potting bench or a recent layer of pea gravel in there for that matter however I’d wish to have this area in tip prime form earlier than the start of the OUTDOOR gardening season. Which I feel might be across the center of April or so.

Aim #5 — Develop Sufficient Additional Greens, Eggs and Flowers to Earn $1500 at my little roadside vegetable stand.

Why $1,500? I determine $1,500 might be sufficient to cowl all my backyard provides/enhancements/timber and fund our date night time finances for the whole yr. You’ll be able to’t win for those who don’t play, proper? So I’d as nicely purpose excessive. 🙂

Objective #6 — End Each Single Unfinished Rug Hooking Venture in My Sample Bin

Critically. That is the yr I end all of the rug hooking tasks I began however put aside for no matter purpose a number of within the bin are like 10 years previous!. That might imply I have to hook not solely 73 rugs with I feel at the least HALF of them being on the bigger measurement however the 183 hooked flowers I have already got drawn out as properly.

Plus, final yr I purchased a few sample books and magazines with the intention of creating the stuff I noticed on the pages that made me need to purchase the e-book within the first place! I feel there are about 10 tasks inside these pages I’d wish to get executed this yr as properly.

Objective #7 — Create 12 New Rug Hooking Patterns with a minimum of half of them being giant ones

Fairly self explanatory. Most probably gained’t occur till I get objective #6 finished although.

Objective #eight — Cut up and Stack 2 Cords of Wooden for Subsequent Winter 

We have already got three cords of oak working it’s magic for subsequent yr. Let’s see if we will harvest 2 extra cords from our yard and get them cut up and stacked earlier than the top of Spring.

Aim #9 — Do One thing with the 5,002 Photographs on My Telephone

C’mon now, do I actually need the 5,002 pictures sitting on my telephone? Do I would like them floating via the universe in some kind of cloud? No, no I don’t. So the plan is fairly easy… Do one thing with each single photograph that’s sitting on my telephone from earlier than January 1st, 2019. Delete, print, share or no matter…. I simply don’t want that type of baggage anymore.

Aim #10 –Lose the Muffin Prime

Third occasions a allure? I don’t know if it’s as a result of I’m getting older, slowing down or simply ate one thousand too many additional parts this previous yr however just about the one pants that match me are the 2 pairs of ridiculously pale and stained boot minimize denims I can’t bear to half with which occur to be the PERFECT CUT for my physique too. I simply want boot minimize denims have been nonetheless in type!.

If I might simply slot in to my OLD PANTS…. I wouldn’t have to purchase any new garments. AND… AND I’d really feel only a teeny tiny higher about myself. You already know, sort of like I’ve gotten my self management again or one thing. I need to match into the identical measurement pants and be capable of button them up! that I wore once I began this weblog. Is that an excessive amount of to ask?

Aim #11 — Run, Stroll or Crawl a 5k, 10okay, Half Marathon and Marathon

Let’s face it, the vacations and winter result in overeating and it was completely well worth the 4 luggage of mint truffles I ate! however like most individuals, I want some motivation to maintain shifting till it’s time to get outdoors and backyard 24/7 so regardless that I’m completely not a runner I was extra of the quick walker, jog for 60 seconds after which quick stroll once more sort I’ve determined to stroll/run/crawl a 5k, 10okay, Half Marathon and Marathon this yr.

Ideally, it will be good to unfold these races out over the subsequent 365 days, however I’ve a sense I may need all of them knocked out by June simply to get them over with critically, who needs to do a marathon in the midst of summer time round right here!?. I like the thought of operating, however the actuality is, I’d slightly work out within the backyard for 12 hours then run for 12 minutes.  However that muffin prime…. If I don’t transfer, it’s not going to both.

Objective #12 — Learn or Take heed to 26 New Books

Fairly self explanatory.

Aim #13 — Attempt 52 New Recipes.

As soon as every week, that shouldn’t be too onerous, proper? Aspect word: Once I say TRY 52 New Recipes… that absolutely doesn’t imply I’ll be making all 52 new recipes…. C’mon individuals, that’s what husbands who earn a living from home are for!! Bahahaha. 🙂 🙂 🙂

Additionally, I’d like my husband to discover ways to make a number of of my favourite French pastries. Lemon tart, lime curd tart, plum tarts no matter I can discover within the Thomas Keller Bouchon Bakery ebook he gave me for Christmas. After seeing me oogle over it on the 1690 Home Bakeshop a number of weeks in the past, he thought it might make an exquisite present. In hindsight I feel he would have hit the delete button on his amazon cart if he had recognized he’d be the one doing all of the baking.

Properly meant presents. They’ve a approach of coming again to chew you. 😉

Objective #14 — Clear Up 52 Previous Recipes.

Go although 52 of my favourite recipes on the weblog and clear up the textual content and take new photographs. Would you consider a few of my favourite recipes on the weblog don’t even have footage, or some have been written within the infancy of this weblog and the photographs are tremendous small or like, actually, actually dangerous? Gag me with a spoon!

Aim #15 — Fill 100 Canning Jars

Will I’ve one thing aside from jam recipes this yr? Solely time will inform. 😉

Objective #16 — End Furnishing Our Home

Issues I’d like to accumulate:

• Espresso desk for the household room
• Console, cabinet or sideboard for the one and solely television in our home which is within the household room. I might completely stay with no tv, however my husband says the television stays.
• Lengthy rectangular desk for the craft room.
• Desk for the formal eating room that no one will ever sit in.
• A wing again chair for the household room.
• I’d additionally like to embellish the mantel within the retaining room in addition to put up some type of ornament above the opposite three fireplaces in the home. I’m not one for lots of issues on the partitions, however it will be good to throw up just a little pilgrim bling on the plaster.

Objective #17 – 52 Dates with the HH

If we will swing it, I’d actually wish to reap the benefits of the Financial institution of America “Museums on Us” program this yr and go to at the very least 12 museums without spending a dime!. My aim is to maintain monitor of all of the locations we go, how a lot we spent and some other fascinating tidbits and share all of them with you on the finish of the yr.

For many of our marriage, the one time we’d ever go and do something simply the 2 of us was a number of days every summer time when the HH needed to go to a vacation spot assembly for work that spouses have been inspired to hitch them on. It was a free trip, in order that half was good, however we have been encompass by individuals from his work. So despite the fact that we’ve been married for over 20 years, it’s solely been the previous few months that we’ve actually been capable of do a bunch of issues collectively. And I need to maintain that momentum going.

Objective #18 — Take One Grownup Schooling Class 

Wheel throwing, portray, basketry, broom making? Who is aware of…. I’ll comprehend it once I discover it.

Objective #19 — Secret for now Vacation Venture 

It’s completely totally different from final years venture and my aim is to make precisely 100 of them by September 1st.

Objective #20 — Create 12 Wowie Zowie Get together Platters

Up my pickety bits recreation. Salami, cheese, and some slices of fruit are high-quality and dandy, however all you must do is look to social media and even my good friend JJ’s Christmas Eve feast! to know tossing a number of Good and Lots candies in a cup and calling it dinner is missing some critical pizzazz within the pickety bits area.

Objective #21 — Go to 12 Common Shops

I’m IN LOVE with the overall shops right here in New England and I MUST FIND MORE!

Aim #22 — Compete with Carole….. Get on My Entrance Door Recreation On

My neighbor Carole, I don’t understand how previous she is perhaps 70? however that lady not solely has a aptitude for adorning, however she has a wreath or door ornament for EVERY week of the yr. It’s pure bananas I inform you and I discover myself searching the eating room window and throughout the road virtually each day to see what new factor she has put out.

Dwelling throughout from Carole is like dwelling in an I SPY e-book however with out the clues of what to search for on the backside of the web page!!!

So principally, I need to get my entrance door recreation on and create 12 door decorations, one for every month of the yr. Adorning your entrance door is completely a factor right here, and I have to step it up a notch so we’re not the slacker home on the road.

So there you might have it.  These are my loopy daisy objectives for 2019.

And so now it’s YOUR TURN!!!

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“I feel it will be neat to have your readers be a part of you and submit/replace their objectives every week within the feedback. I’ve made my objective record for subsequent yr for the primary time and am wanting ahead to undertaking it since there shall be plenty of modifications as we transfer once more in February to the nation.” ~ Christa

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How about YOU? Did you set any objectives for 2019? In that case, we’d LOVE to not solely hear concerning the objectives you’ve set for this yr, however so that you can verify in and tell us how you’re doing on them all year long. As a result of significantly, it’s a lot simpler to get these objectives checked off your record when you might have individuals rooting for you.

H A P P Y   N E W    Y E A R ! ! ! ! ! 

♥ Mavis

P.S. I simply needed so as to add that I feel you’re fairly superior for displaying up right here on a regular basis or each different day, or as soon as every week or how ever typically you pop by. If it wasn’t for you and your help, and the group we’ve constructed collectively, I in all probability wouldn’t nonetheless be right here yakking away. So THANK YOU. Thanks for an additional fantastic yr. I hope this loopy little weblog brings you pleasure.

Peace Out Woman Scout.