FROM DREAM TO REALITY WITH POWERSHEETS GOAL PLANNER

For far too long I felt like I couldn't set goals, and when I did, I failed. I just didn't know how to go about setting reachable goals and then when setting goals, if I didn't see enough progress, I would just give up.

But it wasn't just about setting these large goals. It was also about the every day things. I would plan to do something then come bedtime when I look back over my day, I would realize I hadn't done it. I would say I need to water my house plants once a week but then months later when it was too late, I would finally remember to water them. I would say I wanted to drink so many glasses of water a day yet when I would think back on my day I'd see I didn't meet that number.

Goal setting was hard. But goal executing was even harder. Then I found Powersheets!

The Powersheets, by Cultivate What Matters, helps you to uncover your goals, make an action plan, and live it out. Through Powersheets you discover who you are, what you love, and what you want to accomplish. Then you make an action plan on how to actually go through with your goals. The fun part is the monthly tending list. This is a list where you can mark down your progress on your monthly, weekly, and daily goals.

What I deeply love about Cultivate What Matters is they encourage us to look at progress not perfection. If I don't meet a goal all the way, it's okay. Did I make progress? That's what matters. Making progress, little by little.

Everything I do, I want to do my very best at, as to the Lord. But I can't do everything all of the time. Making goals that are reachable and tracking progress helps me to keep my focus on what really matters, not perfection. Powersheets help me with this. They help me focus, keep me on track, and help me celebrate progress.

The 2019 Powersheets launch today! I am so excited to continue using them into 2019. The Powersheets have new updated features you are going to love as well as four gorgeous cover options you can choose from.

Take a look at my Instastories for a peek inside how I used my Powersheets!

Powersheets are perfect for women in all seasons of life and from all walks of life. They will help you set goals that work for you and help you live them out as you cultivate what matters most in your life.

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Ready To Give Up

Each August excitement builds as we receive our school books for the new school year. We follow up by going to the store to purchase new pencils, notebooks and any other items we will need for the school year. I spend weeks pouring over lesson plans and creating a daily schedule that will work perfectly with our family.

The year goes well. We have some bumps along the way, but nothing too drastic. We follow our well thought out schedule and stick to our lesson plans. We live homeschooling intentionally.

Then our three week Christmas break comes.

It is hard to get back into the routine. Those days off of cuddling, movie watching, baking, putting puzzles together, playing and relaxing are hard to give up. I wonder if we will ever get back on track with homeschooling. But we try. Our schedule becomes a little more laid back the second semester. But we finally fall into a comfortable routine. And it works. We still have bumps along the way, but as with anything, that is to be expected. We are human after all.

Then someone questions my ability to teach my children.

I begin to think what am I doing? Can I really teach my kids? Am I failing them? Oh I just want to get through the year. Can't we be done already!? I stop homeschooling intentionally and start homneschooling just to get done.

Isn't it that way in all things? We get tired of witnessing to the co-worker who just ignores us. We get tired of inviting our relative to church over and over to only be shot down once again. We get tired of teaching the same lesson to our child over and over and over and them continuing in the same disobedience. We get tired of trying so hard for things to only be undone.

Friend, don't give up. Live intentionally. Persevere.

...And let us run with perseverance the race that is marked out for us.

Hebrews 12:1

God didn't bring you to this place to leave you in a desert. He is right beside you. Draw strength from the Father. No matter what you are facing, don't give up. With God you can do all things.




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Soli Deo Gloria
Titus Tuesdays

Recapping Intentional

It is almost time to reveal my new one word for 2013, but first I want to recap my one word for 2012.  After much, much prayer one year ago, I knew God wanted me to work on living intentionally, living on purpose.  So my word for 2012 was intentional.

God wants me to be intentional in my time with Him, my marriage, my children, my homemaking, and homeschooling.

Intentional in my time with God.  Making my time with God more than just a 'check list item.'  Making it passionate and deep.  Not just reading and saying a short prayer but digging into the Word of God and talking with God {this includes listening to Him}.  Committing to that time no matter what else is going on.  It is time to intentionally live for God.

Intentional in my marriage.  I don't want to just co-exist with my husband.  I want to purposely date him, purposely pray for him, purposely help him and purposely showing him how much I love him on a daily basis.  It is time to be intentional in my relationship with my husband.

Intentional in my children.  It can be so easy for me to focus on myself, like reading my books and working {playing} on the computer.  But my children are growing up so fast.  They change daily.  I don't want to miss a moment with them.  After the horrible school shooting in Connecticut last month, I realized just how short life can be, even for our precious children.  A month later and I still ache for mothers who cannot tuck their babies in at night, daddies who will not walk baby girls down the isle or teach sons to play ball.  How can I let the time with my children pass by and not be intentional with them!?  It is time to get intentional with my children.

Intentional in my homemaking.  While I like to keep my home clean and organized, I can be a very forgetful person.  If it is not written in black and white and put in a place I will very plainly see it, I will forget it.  My husband asks me to make a call for him while he works, I forget.  I plan to have a certain meal for dinner but forget to pull the meat out of the freezer.  I make a list for the grocery store but forget to take it with me.  It is time to be intentional in the caring of my home and family.

Intentional in homeschooling.  I truly love homeschooling my kids and feel so blessed that I get to stay home with them.  But there are days when it is so easy to say "let's just get done with today's school work" and not focus on really teaching them or connecting with them.  My children's education depends on me.  If I am being lazy, will they learn what they need for what God has planned for them? It is time to be intentional in homeschooling my children. 

Have I 'arrived' in these areas?  No.  Do I still fail?  Yes.  But I am more aware of these areas than I was one year ago.  I can see improvement and I can see how much I still need to improve.  I am thankful that God gave this word to me a year ago and is working with me through His grace.

What was your 2012 word?  Have you seen improvement in that area?

Be sure to watch for my new one word later this week!

Sweet Blessings~