Make goals, do goals.

So it feels like New Years resolutions are so cliche. People always want to lose weight and travel the world. But do they? No. They may go to the gym for like a month..and then they wait until next January. P.S. This is why gyms are so successful, scams.

I always viewed it as something that was stupid, really. But this year I learned something new. A member of the bishopric in my singles ward gave a talk on New Years resolutions and told us about how he does which changed my whole view on them and I now incorporate it in my life.

He said that he makes a few goals in 3 areas:

Spiritual

Physical

Mental

So that's what I did this year and it has been so much fun! I remember each of them and it works great because they are goals that I can do throughout the changes in life. So I didn't tell you about them back in January but now that I've accomplished most of them, I wanted to share.

Marlisa's 2012 New Years Resolutions:

Spiritual: 

- Read the Book of Mormon

- Finish my goal of doing baptisms in every Utah temple

Physical:

- Take better care of myself (hair, makeup, dress, etc)

- Get in better physical shape

Mental:

- Pass all of my classes, get on track for Associates Spring 2013

And then I also made the goal to become better at cooking which could go under Mental but I'm not sure. But I have got better at that one. Not as good as I can be but I have officially used my crockpot for a ward activity and man was it the bomb.com, not gonna even be humble about it.. I make a mean bbq pulled roast.

Anyways, if you've been following my posts this year you know that my skin has cleared up, I feel like I dress better, and I just learned how to do my makeup like legit - says the tomboy haha But I also feel like I've gotten in pretty good shape. I haven't been running as much but I've been playing sand volleyball or basketball literally every night. I even ran some pretty cool races this year!

I am about to get a 4.0 this summer semester and am still on track to get that associates! Annnnddd I can't forget the best thing ever...I passed my last math class this last spring. Booyah, bu-bye math.

A couple nights ago I finished the Book of Mormon. Best book ever, I love it. It honestly took me going to New York and all the feelings I felt in Palmyra to have a deep love for the scriptures. It's not like I didn't like them before but now I LOVE them. I am grateful to Joseph Smith and all his many sacrifices for the church to make it so we could be where we are at today.

So that just leaves the temples goal. The temples I have left are Salt Lake, Oquirrah Mountain, Logan, Bountiful, Vernal, Ogden, and Monticello...so pretty much all of them haha. I better hurry too because soon I'll have two more temples to add to the list with Payson and the Provo Tabernacle Temples going up.

Just thought I would share that in case someone else found that more helpful than writing down goals that never get done. It's so much easier this way and they are things that you can do even when life changes as the year pans out. 

Life's good, Happy Saturday :)