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#LMMLinkup: Fulfilling Goals

January 15, 2018 By Mary Hill 11 Comments

Welcome back to the #LMMLinkup.

This week’s focus continues around goals and resolutions.

One of my goals for the New Year for my blog is to establish a regular schedule. To start, I am adding two days of regular posting. Thoughtful Thursday and Five Minute Friday.

This week’s Thoughtful Thursday centered around resolution resources for 2018. I shared 10 resources to help you think through your goals for the New Year.  For Five Minute Friday, I wrote on the word simplicity. On Friday, January 6, I blogged on the word, motivate.

As the year progresses, I hope to add Book Review Tuesday. I started this Tuesday with a book review on Sacred Rest by Saundra Dalton-Smith, Md.  On Wednesdays, I hope to resume my photography posts with poems for Almost Wordless Wednesday.

What are you goals for you blog? If you are restarting or new, I recommend developing a weekly blog schedule to start. Then working ahead to fulfill your schedule. You can “batch” posts. I am working today on several weeks’ of Thoughtful Thursdays.

Share your plans for blog in the comments below so that we support each other in prayer.

Also, I can’t wait to read your Literacy Musing Mondays posts this week.

A quick reminder, however, about the purpose of Literacy Musing Mondays. We welcome all posts related to learning, writing, literacy, and blogging. Also devotional posts and posts related to God’s Word are welcome. Please do not linkup posts for the simple purpose of selling things or sponsored posts that do relate to our theme. We don’t mind affiliate links in your posts, but we have seen posts just selling products not related to our theme. These posts will be deleted. Thanks everyone for your support in keeping our community focused on literacy and learning.


 

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Last Week’s Top Clicked Post!

Why You Should Avoid Being the ‘Best Version of Yourself’

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By Beth Steffaniak at Messy Marriage

Beth looks at how the idea of trying to be the best version of yourself developed, Then she argues why this is not such a great goal. She points out that working toward becoming the best versions of ourselves can have an unhealthy side and misguided focus to it.  Read more to learn why.

 

My Favorite Post of the Week

Achievable Goals

By Jennifer Lambert at Raising Servant Leaders

 

I liked this post because it speaks to simplicity. Instead of lofty resolutions for the New Year, Jennifer encourages us to keep our focus on achievable goals. Be sure to check out her post to discover her recommended goals.

 

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  1. Anita Ojeda says

    January 22, 2018 at 1:39 pm

    Good for you, coming up with a schedule! It’s something I need to do, too. Thank you for the inspiration!
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  2. Donna Reidland says

    January 18, 2018 at 7:14 am

    Mary, I guess one of my goals, since I post every day, is to stay a little farther ahead. But it doesn’t always work out that way. I’m also trying to simplify some things. Thanks for hosting. Have a great week!
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  3. Maree Dee says

    January 15, 2018 at 12:30 pm

    Thank you for sharing your blogging goals. It was helpful. I am still working on setting my spiritual goal, and then I will move to blogging goals. I wrote about spiritual goals last week, and I still don’t have mine quite ironed out. Yikes! Of course, it is all in God’s timing.
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  4. Lisa/Syncopated Mama says

    January 15, 2018 at 11:18 am

    Halfway through January already, can you believe it?

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  5. Jennifer Lambert says

    January 15, 2018 at 11:13 am

    Thanks for featuring my Achievable Goals post! Happy New Year!

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  6. Barbara H. says

    January 15, 2018 at 10:44 am

    My goals for my blog haven’t really changed since I started – to come alongside as a friend and share life, particularly things God is teaching me. I’ve fallen into more or less of a schedule now, when life cooperates. 🙂 I do still wrestle with how much time to spend with the blog and whether to cut back to pursue some other writing and am praying for God’s direction.
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    • Mary Hill says

      January 15, 2018 at 11:08 am

      Barbara, I am right there with you. I am praying over the same issues. Thanks for stopping by.
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  7. Beth says

    January 15, 2018 at 10:27 am

    Thanks so much for the shout out, Mary! Always appreciate it! And so glad to have these resolution resources/posts to give us ideas for nailing our resolutions down. I will probably try to post twice a week instead of just posting once a week–something I’ve done a lot this past fall. But I also try to build in breaks from blogging, like at Christmas time and part of the summer. I really need that to refuel and refresh myself. Thanks for asking about our goals! It’s always nice to share.
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  8. Michele Morin says

    January 15, 2018 at 9:53 am

    Great timing for this focus on goals.
    One of my targets to hit this year is to avoid letting my goals drive me. I’m intentionally making room for more people in my life this year.
    Thanks, Mary, for all you do.
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