Resolutions

We were able to have our family home evening on Tuesday and chose our new family and personal goals (as mentioned in the post from Jan. 1). I won't tell all our family goals, but wanted to note that one of them is to keep our bedrooms clean - we all seem to have a difficult time with this. Another note, I only started with four, today I have seven. I think it would be smart to be more concise and/or realistic...but...well...I really do want to work on these seven things.

1. Finish the projects I'm working on and do not start a new one until they are all finished. This will be very difficult for me as I am the queen of unfinished projects. One of the ones I would like to finish I started in 1995. :D
2. Read scriptures and pray daily. I would love to say that I am wonderful at this but it definitely needed to be a goal.
3. Write in journal periodically. Seriously, I could not put every day on this one, because I know it wouldn't happen. But perhaps if I start out "periodically" eventually I'll want to write in it more often. This way I will still keep up with basic happenings in my life and not feel guilty for not writing at all.
4. Send cards promptly (b'day, thank yous, and x-mas). Obviously, since I didn't send Christmas cards in 2008, I havn't become much better at promptness than the time I sent out my TY notes from my wedding, on my one year anniversary.
5. Be a listener (Sometimes I walk away from my family members while they are talking to me and sometimes I type things on the computer while talk on the phone - bad.) But the worst is trying to make eye-contact with people while focusing on what they are saying. Sorry, "dear reader", (quoting from a good friend of mine) but I really have to concentrate on what a person is saying or one line of their comments may become a really great tangent to some other subject in my mind.
6. Stay on budget.
7. Practice the piano. (This is actually one of my first goals and I have done it, so far, every day but two since Jan. 1.) Okay, so I just realized that it was only the 8th of January, but we've been sick at our house. And six out of eight is pretty good for a start; right? ;-)