Spiritual Prep: Book of Mormon Reading Goal
01/09/2012 • {File Update: If you downloaded this chart prior to May 24th, 2012 you are likely missing a space for Helaman chapter 14. This has been corrected and a new version is available for download. Sorry for any inconvenience!} So, one of our family's goals for this year is to read the Book of Mormon (one of the books of scripture in the LDS church). It was a challenge given to us by our Stake Presidency and we hope to fulfill it. It takes us a bit longer than most to get through the book though (since our girls' attention span is more
Another New Year, More New Goals
01/06/2012 • Happy 2012 everybody!! I don't know about you, but I have thoroughly enjoyed a relaxing Christmas vacation with lots of family and loved ones. And now it's back to life, back to reality. Bummer. :D As always, at the end of every year I find myself looking back to see what kinds of things I was able to accomplish in the past year, and areas in which I might have fallen short as well. 2011 held a lot of good progress for me in the food storage and preparedness arenas. I'm really excited about the progress in gardening that our family more
Feature Friday: Measuring Goals
06/25/2010 • Hey ya'll. As I was reading an article on preparedness, it was talking about how if you write down the areas in which you are lacking (as opposed to just thinking about it), suddenly ideas will start coming to your mind about how to overcome those weak areas. It then mentioned that you should have a way to be accountable to yourself/spouse/family in order to help accomplish the goals you set for those areas that are lacking. I thought that was something important that I needed to do, so I came up with this fun little thermometer to gauge my more
Food Storage: Setting Goals
04/20/2010 • Okay. As promised, we are going to break down our 3 big steps into smaller, simple steps so we can just walk right on through this whole process with ease and, more importantly, sanity. So, Simple Step #1: Set Some Goals. Specifically, we're going to set an Ultimate Food Storage Goal (long-term goal) along with many short-term goals to help get us there. So let's start with the long-term goal. When setting your Ultimate Food Storage Goal, you can start with a generic/vague goal (especially if you're just starting out on your food storage journey) and then fine tune it and get more more
