1) Begin to learn Spanish: I feel pretty confident this one is going very well. Joshua and I are enjoying our Spanish class on Wednesday nights and, though I only know simple questions, my desire to learn more is growing.
2) Read the Bible every morning: weekday mornings have been pretty consistent, I am less faithful on the weekends, but Joshua has been helping us read on Saturday and Sunday mornings more consistently. What I am not doing well here is enjoying what I am reading. I have been completely exhausted the last several weeks, for some reason, so getting up has been very difficult, and too often I look at this as just a task that has to be done. My attitude is what needs to change here.
3) Yoga every weekday morning: Hmmm, I was really good at this the first couple of weeks in January. Now 5:30 is SO early and all I want to do is set my alarm until 6. I am thinking about changing this up a little and stumbling out of my nice, cozy, warm bed into the cold, dark gym in the mornings, so I get a little more exercise. I think my exhaustion is probably, at least in part, due to the lack of exercise I am getting, so this needs to be a priority.
4) Be a better listener to both my husband and others: Ugh, I thought I was doing well at this, but I think I am not doing as well as I should. I react too quickly in emotion, especially to Joshua, and don't really talk through things. And I am still saying "no" too often in disagreeing with him instead of allowing him to speak, so that he feels I really do value his opinion. Hopefully I'll train my mouth to not open and talk quite so much, so I can listen better.
5) Be more selfless and giving in my actions: To be honest, I don't feel that I am doing poorly or well in this area. What I'm trying to say is, I don't know if I have had too many examples, at least that I remember. Though, I do need to be more selfless with Joshua. Last weekend, though, we had several friends over, and I do feel the Lord worked on my attitude a lot to be happy people were here and not secretly wishing I could go to bed! (I like my sleep way too much)
6) Learn to care only for God's pleasure and then my husband's: Obviously I still need work on this one, but I will say I am slowly seeing progress in my bad habit of comparing myself to others and the normal emotional breakdowns Joshua would have to listen to (though, he may not agree with this...). This one is a constant work in progress, but I'm hoping through a lot (a LOT) of prayer and disciplining my mind, I will stop worrying what other people might think so much.
7 & 8) Have a firm understanding of where most all of our products come from and buy more local produce: This one has not stuck yet, but I really wasn't sure it would until we moved in August. Since my job is to cook for my employers, I don't have a lot of freedom to buy exactly what I would if it was just Joshua and I. Which means, there are a lot of things I buy that I wish I wasn't buying, but I do it to save money and to make my life a little easier as I try to cook and take care of a little one.
9) Be more comfortable being quiet with myself: I am having a very hard time with this, but I do think I am somewhat better with trying to give Joshua quiet time and having it be quiet around the house while I work a lot of the time.
10) I am adding a tenth, because I want to. I want to begin doing research on gardening and which foods to plant when for the area we are moving to, with the goal that I could possibly have a garden this fall.
Overall, I think I am doing well, but there is definitely room for improvement. I do have another 10 months to really work at this, though, so I feel pretty confident that I will continue to get better. I will continue over the months to look at my progress, though, for accountability as I grow in these areas.
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