Happy Monday! A lot of people hate Mondays, supposedly; I blame Garfield for that. Anyway, I don't mind Mondays -- one seventh of my life will be spent on Mondays, so it's best to embrace them and even look forward to them. It's the start of a new week, and with that it's time to buckle down and report on the last week. It's also the start of a new month, so this will be my first monthly check-in. Uh oh! Let's start with the daily stuff first.
I finished off 2 Nephi today -- one week of 15 pages per day, and I'm already over 1/5 of the way through the Book of Mormon. How's that for cool? I've never been all that good at reading 30 minutes per day in the scriptures -- much less studying and pondering for 30 minutes a day! -- but when you start to do it you will be amazed at how much you can learn. My quote today is a familiar one for LDS people, but it's something everyone can benefit from learning. The second quote is more for my own personal development and something I seriously need to work on.
2 Nephi 31: 20-21: "Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.And now, behold, my beloved brethren, this is the way; and there is none other way nor name given under heaven whereby man can be saved in the kingdom of God. And now, behold, this is the doctrine of Christ, and the only and true doctrine of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, which is one God, without end. Amen." (The Book of Mormon, pp. 114-115)
I love what it says about enduring there; it's a slight edge principle if ever there was one! We are never standing still; we're either becoming better people, or we're stagnating and falling behind. Consider: when are you ever done being a good parent? When have you exercised enough that you can just coast for the rest of your life? At what point have you studied the scriptures enough that your faith is complete and you can now relax? Whatever aspect of life you look at, you are either curving upwards and improving or curving downwards and becoming worse.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: "Many families are managed on the basis of crises, moods, quick fixes, and instant gratification -- not on sound principles. Symptoms surface whenever stress and pressure mount: people become cynical, critical, or silent or they start yelling and overreacting. Children who observe these kinds of behavior grow up thinking the only way to solve problems is flight or fight. The core of any family is what is changeless, what is always going to be there -- shared vision and values. By writing a family mission statement, you give expression to its true foundation." (Pp. 138: Begin with the End in Mind)
That's now one more item for my agenda: work on personal, family, and business mission statements. That's not something that I'll come up with in one night and have it done, so we'll just file that for now as something to work on in the coming month.
Daily Check Up:
1) Scripture study: Yes (15 pages per day through the end of the year: 2 Nephi 28 - Jacob 2, pp. 106-122)
2) Morning and evening prayers: Yes
3) 15+ minutes good book: Yes (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, chapter 4, pp. 135-144)
4) 15 minutes of parenting/relationships/children book: No
5) Exercise for 30 minutes or more: No (I did some push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, but got sidetracked caring for sick kids today)
6) One doTERRA blog post: Yes
7) Use doTERRA oils for something: Yes
8) doTERRA Leadership and Mentor calls (Mon-Fri): Yes
9) Talk to two people about doTERRA: One (Trinity, online -- hi if you're reading this!)
10) 15 minutes organizing office area: No
11) Solid 8 hours (M-F) working at my job: Yes
12) Early to bed, early to rise: No (1:00AM to 8:30AM)
13) One AnandTech pipeline or article: Yes
Now for the weekly check-up:
Weekly Check Up:
1) Family Home Evening: Yes (Ward Christmas party counts, right?)
2) Attend church: Yes
3) Check weight on scale: Yes (Monday night: 207.4 lbs., 19.7% BEI)
4) doTERRA weekly call: Yes
5) doTERRA blog week-in-review post: Need to complete
6) Call home teaching families: Talked at church; told them we're moving
7) Family Council: No
8) One hour house cleanup: No (Prep for Ward Christmas party)
9) At least one full review posted: No (Distracted with buying home)
10) Call mom and at least two other siblings: Partial (talked with mom and Derrik, but need to do better)
Okay, so that's not all that good, but it's what I did and now I need to do better this week! My weight is up, at least in part because I checked it tonight rather than in the morning. This was a stressful week, and I didn't cope well with the stresses unfortunately. The monthly is only half a month I believe, but here we go:
Monthly Check Up:
1) Home teaching: Yes
2) Fast, fast offerings, and tithing: Yes
3) Date night with Becky (twice per month!): No
4) Pay bills and go over budget: Yes to paying bills, no to working on budget
5) Monthly council: No
6) doTERRA Meeting at our house: No
7) Month-in-review doTERRA blog post: Not yet
8) Pictures of body for fitness: Not yet
9) Individual date nights with children: No
10) Call dad at least once: Yes
11) Find a small service project to help with: No
Okay, so that's not even remotely close on most of the items. I need to work on setting up a schedule and then planning for it, and with three kids it gets a little crazy as you might imagine. Getting ready to move isn't helping either, but I still want these as the monthly activities I intend to do and I need to move closer to achieving them next month.
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