2017 Goals
Well friends, this is it!
Your NEW page!
Your fresh start!
It’s God’s gift to you: a brand new year, waiting for YOU to fill its hours and days and weeks and months!!!
This day never loses its freshness to me. “His mercies are new every morning,” but I feel like they are especially new on January 1st. God set rhythms and calendars into place for a reason. He gave us weeks to live by, months, seasons and years… all to mark our time, to look back, and to look forward. And it’s SO good to do just that.
I’m going to begin this post by recapping my 2016 goals, and then I’m going to give you the two MOST important steps you can take in preparing your goals for 2017, ending with my 2017 goals. Ready?
2016 Goals: A Recap
CHECK = I completed my goal!
GOAL CHANGE = I changed the original goal to work better for me
** = Incomplete
– Launch the Nancy Ray Online Shop this spring CHECK
– Re-read my 12 most life-changing books CHECK
– Read 4 new books CHECK
– Host the Nancy Ray Book Club CHECK
– Run a 10K CHECK
– Run a Half Marathon (hopefully with my sister and the NRP team!) CHECK
– Have weekly family Sabbaths CHECK (there may have been a few missed weeks here, but overall I feel very good about this one!)
– Have family dinners twice a week**
– Raise $30,000 for ministry** I gave it my all and raised $10,373 !
– Implement 12 “Duty Days” in 2016 – 1 per month (thanks Katelyn for this helpful blogpost!) GOAL CHANGE: I turned my “duty days” into weekly to dos which worked better with my scorecard system!
– Save $30,000 for a new home CHECK
– 12 month marketing plan CHECK
– Write Contentment Challenge E-book CHECK
– Memorize monthly Bible verse (write on our chalk wall)**
– Take my team members to lunch each quarter** (I did this the first quarter only)
– Finish Milly’s Baby book by her 1st birthday CHECK
– Hire a Nanny CHECK
– Create new promo films for NRP CHECK: Watch it here!
– Revise business mission + policies CHECK
– Revisit family photography CHECK
– Celebrate my 30th birthday by doing something fun CHECK
– Attend 6 C12 Groups CHECK
– Continue church Connect Group involvement CHECK
– Join the Worship Team CHECK
– 1 Sugar fast each quarter**
– Implement Pay for Performance Sheets CHECK
– Complete another Contentment Challenge CHECK
– Introduce accountability aspect to Weekly NRP Team Meetings CHECK
– Plan a family vacation CHECK
Of the 29 goals I set for 2016, I didn’t reach 5 of them, and I only changed 1. That’s pretty strong! To honestly assess where things went wrong with the ones I didn’t reach, I either got lazy (sugar fast and scripture memorization), busy (didn’t take my team members out to lunch like I should have, family dinners 2x week), or I gave it my all and still came up short (raising $30K for a ministry).
For the ones I DID reach, I will say this: It took a lot of planning every single week. It took a lot of self discipline to train for a half marathon and complete another contentment challenge and launch an online shop. It took commitment to join our worship team and the ability to have hard, good conversations about things that needed to change. Most of all, it took prioritization and planning.
Take some time and assess your 2016 if you haven’t already. Ask yourself: what happened? Where did things go wrong? What did I do right?
So if you haven’t yet, grab a posterboard, or your Powersheets (highly recommend), or just a blank sheet of computer paper and a sharpie!
Because here is the very first most important step that CANNOT be skipped:
1. You MUST write your goals down.
And the next MOST important step in seeing your goals come to life?
2. You MUST review them regularly!
That’s why I post my goals monthly, and review them (most of the time) weekly. If I don’t, they never come to fruition. It really is as simple as that.
Want a few other encouraging and practical goal setting tips and tricks? Read below:
Setting Goals according to Life Categories
On Not Reaching Goals
Setting Goals as a new Mama
This year I prayerfully took time to go through my Powersheets, and I came up with the following 10 Goals. The first 5 are personal, the second 5 are work related. You’ll also see that they aren’t super specific, but they are broad, big picture goals with a strong WHY behind each one. I’ll break them down into a master list, to make them a bit easier to tackle.
2017 GOALS
Personal
1. Care for my body well through running, strength training, yoga and healthy eating.
2. Capture and document my family legacy by completing 2014, 2015, and 2016 albums and taking 1 roll of personal film each month.
3. Invest intentional time in my marriage and family by dating Will regularly, and creating a new “Milly afternoon routine” as soon as I get off work at 4 each day.
4. Deepen my spiritual walk through 10 minutes of daily prayer time and an afternoon “daily office” with regular meditation.
5. Read 12 books for self improvement and leisure.
Work
6. Delegate and elevate by hiring a part time studio assistant and adding a 3rd intern in the summer.
7. Successfully launch an online course (all on shooting in film!)
8. Work 3 days a week by the fall (Nov 1.)
9. Update the #nrpstudio space.
10. Invest in the NRP team and their spouses through one on one training, dinners and lunches.
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I love that there are 10 goals this year. 10! But those 10 big pictures goals need to be broken down so I can actually set something measurable and achievable. Here is my bullet point list of goals for 2017:
Goal # 1: Care for my body well
– Run 3 10K’s
– Adopt a lifting / strength training weekly routine by February
– Sugar fast in January
– Once a month yoga (10-12 for the year)
Goal #2: Capture and Document my family legacy
– Complete 2014, 2015, and 2016 family yearbook Artifact Uprising albums
– Take 1 roll of personal film each month
Goal #3: Invest intentional time in my marriage and family
– Go on a Date with Will 1-2x month
– Create a new afternoon Milly Routine as soon as I get off work from 4-5 each day
Goal #4: Deepen my spiritual walk
– 10 minutes of daily prayer time and
– Afternoon “daily office” with regular meditation at least 4 days / week
Goal #5: Read 12 Books for self improvement and leisure
– Read 1 book each month
Goal #6: Delegate and Elevate
– Hire a part time studio assistant
– Add a summer intern
Goal #7: Successfully launch an online course
– Finish Filming
– Set up Website
– Market and Launch in May
Goal #8: Work 3 days a week by the fall
– Delegate and train Callie and new hire to take more of my load
Goal #9: Update the #nrpstudio space
– Move Callie out of the closet (ha!)
– Sell and Buy furniture
– Reset Drobo
– Define work spaces for myself, Callie, interns and new hire
Goal #10: Invest in the NRP Team and their spouses
– One on one training
– one on one lunches
– Have each couple over for dinner at some point throughout the year
And last but not least, my JANUARY GOALS for 2017!
Complete a 2 week sugar fast
Finish Filming for Online Course
Go to a Yoga class
Read Boundaries with Kids
Take 1 roll of personal film
Finish 2016 Family Yearbook
Go on a date with Will
Brainstorm list of ideas for Milly and Mama routine
10 minutes of daily prayer time
Afternoon Daily Office 4 days / week
Hire studio asssistant
Hire interns for 2017
Move Callie out of the closet (ha!)
Sell and Buy furniture
Reset Drobo
Define work spaces for myself, Callie, interns and new hire
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If there’s anything you take away from my goal setting, I hope you see the power of monthly goal setting. You have 12 opportunities throughout the year to put these goals on the pages of your calendar: 12 months!
January is FULL, y’all. But I’m convinced it’s going to start this year off strong because of all that’s in store!
I’d LOVE to hear from you and your 2017 goals! Please comment with a link below!