New Year goals by this time of the year become sidelined and forgotten.
I haven’t forgotten mine, but I am not achieving them either.
As we approach the fourth month, I ask myself how do I stay on track and not abandon my goals.
My main goals were to draw closer to God by reading my Bible and praying more, to lose weight, expand my social media presence and blog audience, and improve my writing skills. I need to also work on spending more time with my husband and family. These goals are important on all fronts to improve my spiritual walk, emotional and physical life, and to improve myself as a mother and wife.
I plan to revisit why each of these goals are important to me; prayerfully come up with a plan to reach them; and to ask friends for prayer and accountability.
What are some steps that you recommend when you get off track of meeting goals? I would love to hear your input. Do you have a blog post to help us learn how to set, manage, and keep goals. Be sure to link these up this week!
Now on to our linkup. First, let’s
Last Week’s Top Clicked Post!
Explore Nature for Earth Day
LIGHTING UP LITERATURE
Earth Day is a month a way and will be celebrated on April 22 this year. This post has great resources to help you prepare to celebrate nature and God-given resources. Be sure to check it out.
My Favorite Post of the Week
Spiritual Encouragement from a Spider
By Karen at Growing Together in Grace and Knowledge
Remember to check out other hosts’ blogs to see which posts from last week were their favorites. Want to be the next to be featured! Just link up a post and if you are read the most, we will feature you. Also please make sure you link back to us so others will know about our link up and join in. We try to make it worth your while to linkup with us by promoting your posts across our social media networks. We also pin our most clicked and featured posts to our Pinterest Board each week!
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Now, it is time to link up to the Literacy Musing Mondays hop!
Linkup Rules:
- Include a link back or the blog hop button linked to this hop on your posts.
- Link up the urls to your posts not to your blog.
- Please remember this is a family-friendly linkup. Although we believe in the right for adults to read whatever they want to read, we prefer to read wholesome posts that feature literature that edify and uplift families. We reserve the right to delete any posts that are not family friendly. We love all kinds of literature and genres including family-friendly inspirational romances, fantasy, or science fiction. We do not welcome any posts that feature excessive violence, sexual content, or any cursing. This rule also applies to book review posts that feature books that are not family-friendly. These posts will be deleted without notice to the blogger or explanation. While we believe in the right for all adults to read whatever they want, we feel our linkup is for family-friendly posts only. Thank you for understanding.
- We also want to be loving community by supporting one another. Please make a point to do this this week! Visit the two posts before yours and at least one other blogger’s post of your choice! I want to see lots of clicks on everyone’s posts. Remember it is also nice to follow them on their social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
- Follow your hosts and co-hosts on their social media.
- Tweet about the link up too.
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Vashti Q says
March 24, 2017 at 4:02 pmHello Mary! I hope you’re having a lovely day. Thanks for the link party! 😀 xx
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Donna Reidland says
March 24, 2017 at 2:55 pmThose pesky goals! LOL It is a good time to evaluate how we’re doing, isn’t it? When I realize I’m not doing what I set out to do, I often go back to the thing that helped motivate me in the first place, a passage a Scripture, a book I read on the subject, etc. I can’t read without underlining and highlighting. So I go back and review those things. Thanks for hosting and have a great week-end.
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Tina at Mommynificent says
March 21, 2017 at 9:31 pmIt’s been so long since I’ve been able to make it, but I’m so glad to be here today! Thanks for hosting!
Tina
Mary Hill says
March 22, 2017 at 4:01 pmTina, thanks for joining us this week. So excited to see you on the linkup. 😉
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Create With Joy says
March 21, 2017 at 5:57 pmThanks for hosting Mary – I am doing well in some areas of my goals and working to get re-focused in several other areas! I find that I do best when I focus on one thing at a time – have yet to get “balance” down! 🙂
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Ifeoma Samuel says
March 21, 2017 at 10:40 amHi Mary, we tend to focus on the new year goals at the initial stage but as you rightly mentioned it’s 4th month in a few days and we should review these goals and how close we are to accomplishing them.
Thank you for giving courage to reflect on these.
Blessings to you
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Lisa/Syncopated Mama says
March 21, 2017 at 9:33 amIt’s a great idea to re-visit goals every quarter like this! Happy Spring!
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Lux G. says
March 21, 2017 at 4:01 amGreat to be joining this linky again. 🙂
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Debbie Kitterman says
March 21, 2017 at 12:39 amthanks for hosting Mary – praying you are feeling way better than last week. 🙂 and karen’s post was good – I just read it last night. thanks for highlighting her and the lessons she has learned from a spider 🙂
Karen Del Tatto says
March 20, 2017 at 1:17 pmMary,
Thank you so much for the feature and your extremely kind words introducing my post. It means a lot!
Blessings,
karen
Mary Hill says
March 20, 2017 at 7:21 pmKaren, you welcome. Thanks for linking up.
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Barbara H. says
March 20, 2017 at 10:52 amI was impacted by part of a quote I saw once that said something like the little choices we make every day have more impact than the resolutions we make Jan. 1. Finding some way to incorporate those resolutions or goals into everyday life and moment by moment choices is something I need to work on.
Michele Morin says
March 20, 2017 at 9:19 amThanks, Mary, for spotlighting Karen’s piece — I had missed it last week, and it certainly is very special. Also, I appreciate the encouragement to stay strong in my goals for 2017. Blessings to you!
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