2013 Challenges & Resolutions

Boosting Energy

• Run an 11 minute mile
• Go one month with no soda
• Run a 10k

Boosting Spirituality

• Visit five new churches
• Practice openness, vulnerability & patience

Boosting Parenting

• Take each child on one "mom date" per month
• Complete six volunteer opportunities which involve the children
• Visit one museum per month

Boosting Finance

• Spend no money on anything other than necessities for one month
• Buy NO books for an entire year

Boosting Relationships

• Write to my grandmothers a minimum of once a month
• Blog/journal a minimum of once a week

Boosting Play

• Complete one creative project per month (e.g. knitting, writing, sewing)
•  Try a minimum of 12 new foods in a year (single item or in a dish):

           January: BBQ chicken, sweet potatoes
           February:

• Reduce household possessions by @ 25%

2013 Reading Goals

25 books, including: 

• My Year With Eleanor, a memoir, by Noelle Hancock  
• 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess, by Jen Hatmaker
• The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Two Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept With her iPhone) Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale, by Susan Maushart
• Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less, by Marc Lesser 
• Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life, by Gretchen Rubin