- Handle daily finances for the family well; keep possessions at a need-based minimum, try to utilize public resources or secondhand places as first inquiry, give away/share/sell items we outgrow
- Actively support the people whose work Daniel and I partner with through financial sponsorship (as a start)
- Run at least a 5K (minimum 20-30 minutes) every day, with one rest day per week; 10K on Friday mornings (Saturday mornings after we leave Israel)
- Prepare nutritious meals/snacks with organic, farmer-to-table vegetables on a regular basis for the family
- Have a job outside of the family that enables me to contribute to better public discourse/critical thinking, but also leave me enough time to be available for the needs of my family and friends
- Spent less time on Facebook/Develop a better social network via letter-writing, phone calls, face-to-face meetings
- Be more consistent about (daily) intentional time spent with God
- Have a healthier (more consistent) bedtime schedule
- Keep a relatively tidy living space for the family
All of these things look entirely doable when laid out like this, and yet I feel like a description of my current life is so far from these hardly fantastical ideals. Why?
Hi Amy, It's been a while since I've caught up with you, but I really like your list. Maybe if you focused on one or two per year, and rotated in the goals annually, it would help to internalize them? That's just one way I might try to take some of your ideas and apply them in my own life. =)
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