Plan to have a great year Day 4

Day 4- Find your why

This was hard for us! It may be easy for your family but it was difficult for us to put into word why we want to accomplish our goals, why we want to reach our dreams or even why it matters so much to us to have these visions for our lives. This may be especially hard for younger children, Lily struggled with it much more than Kyle and Renee. The reason may just be that younger kids don't tend to see the future as clearly as older kids or adults. Natalie Bacon has some good tips and suggestions on how to find your why. You can read her entire blog post here. Basically we ask ourselves why we want what we want. Why is it important to us. Here is what I came up with. 

Health- I want to look and feel better, I want to live a long life but I don't want to end up old, sick in and out of the hospital and on medications. I want to help my kids and Shane to be healthier and help Shane control his diabetes. 

Relationships- So I won't feel sad and alone. I struggle with depression. I want my kids to feel like I'm a good mom. I don't want to end up a bitter, lonely old lady and die alone. Ok I admit that's a little dark but this blog is about facing my fears, writing honestly and from the heart and to be honest my biggest fear is dying not just the death part but to die alone, without anyone holding my hand and telling me I am loved and that my life mattered. 

Finances- I don't want to continue living paycheck to paycheck and being stressed about money. I want to set a good example for my family. 

Career/business- for the sense of accomplishment I'll feel. to help my family financially, as far as being a writer I think my why is that surely God has a reason and a purpose for the things I've gone through in my life, maybe that reason is so that I can help someone else who is going through the same things? And if not that then maybe I can find personal growth and healing through my writing. 

Environment- One of my biggest motivators for wanting to get involved with environmental issues is that I've noticed over the past two years that not caring about the environment has giving Christians a bad reputation and I do kinda understand why more Christians aren't very concerned about things like global warming or the ozone layer. We understand that the world was always intended to be a temporary home for us and it was never meant to last forever. That being said God did create this world and we should at least try to take care of it. So I guess my why for the environment is so that I can be a better witness. And whether we are here another 10 years or another 100 years I do want to leave the best possible Earth behind for my grandkids.

There is a day 5 to this plan but it involves setting up reminders and alarms and we don't really use our phones like that so we skipped that part, but it's a good tip so please be sure you check it out on Natalie's blog.