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You might remember a few weeks ago when I made my "new year's" post that I had decided to focus on 2021 as 52 separate weeks. To be honest, this concept has been ah-ma-zing. Every Sunday afternoon, we sit down for a family meeting, where we go over our menu for the week, make a grocery list, discuss the calendar, and review our annual and weekly goals. It sounds almost too simple to say that one half-hour meeting on Sunday afternoon has led to three weeks of success in 2021, but it's true! I thought it might be helpful to run you through the process off our Sunday afternoon meetings, in case you wanted to try something similar with your family.
It might seem like I'm speaking a little too soon on the success of planning weekly and setting 7-day goals instead of annual resolutions, but I can truly feel that something is different this year.
My annual goals seem manageable. My checklist items are getting marked off. I'm feeling more productive and peaceful than I have in a while...and we still have time to relax with each other on the weekends and evenings. Smiling here at the farmhouse today, Hannah ♥️🏡♥️ I love the first day of the year. I love flipping the calendar over to start a new month. I love August, the beginning of the new school year. I love Mondays. I really love any chance I have to start over. And so this year -- instead of focusing on New Year's Resolutions for 2021, I've decided to set a few big annual goals and then zoom in and focus on resolutions for every single week this year. 52 weeks to set specific goals. 52 weeks to track success and struggles & make adjustments. 52 chances to start again. We've been having family meetings for a little over a year on almost every Sunday evening. We plan the menu for the week, look at the upcoming events on the calendar, talk about things we need to get done at home, and tell stories about our weeks.
We will change it and print it each week.
Hopefully, we'll mark everything off of the list, but if not -- it's not to hard to just transfer it to the next week. We just want to be more intentional with how we are moving towards our faith, family, financial, and career goals. Hopefully this will be one more tool that we can use to grow in 2021. Ready for Week 1 of 2021 Growth here at the Farmhouse, Hannah ♥️🏡♥️
I am sitting here in my quiet kitchen, reflecting on 2020 and looking ahead to 2021.
Wasn't 2020 just absolutely insane? There is no way that I can sum up our experiences this year in one simple blog post. Our family spent 6 weeks in quarantine, due to COVID-19. Harlee and Matthew spent 8 weeks, I contracted the virus in September and am still fighting some of the symptoms right now...four months later. So many friends of our lost family members to this terrible virus and we are still praying for them every day. A tornado blew our barn away and caused some damage to our house and several other buildings on our property. However, this unfortunate circumstance truly jumpstarted some pretty big property improvements. We rebuilt the barn, fenced in our property, built the Rustic Rooster (a loft playhouse for the girls), and are almost finished with our detached garage...complete with a kitchen, workout space, and bathroom. When school started in August, I totally fell off of the blogging wagon (again), but learned a lot about leading a school during a global pandemic. It's been a year to remember and I would be lying if I said I wasn't ready to forget most of 2020 and move forward. One of my 2021 goals is to blog every week, so look for a post soon about my word-of-the-year. Love, grace, and peace from the farmhouse tonight, friends, Hannah ❤️🏡❤️
Last year, I set a goal of reading 30 books in 2019.
I probably met this goal, but I can't say that with 100% certainty because I didn't track my books after about January 15th. This year, I'm using Goodreads to track my books and I've already finished book number 1.
My first book of 2020 (which I will admit, I started in the last few days of 2019) was Outer Order, Inner Calm.
About the book from Gretchen Rubin's website:
One of my biggest take-aways from the book was this quote..."Nothing is more exhausting than the task that's never started."
I am the queen of systems and procedures and lists. Sometimes my "task list" includes upwards of 100 items. After reading this book, I went through my list and moved most of the items to a specific scheduled block on my calendar. This simple act was a relief because by giving each task its own specified time, I "started" the process of marking the item off of my checklist. The piece of advice to schedule time to work on tasks is just a very small example of the wealth of knowledge Rubin shares in this book and I would highly recommend it.
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