Goals for September 2022

 

Happy September, my friends! The month of transition from summer to fall, from green to multi-colored, and from stifling hot to (hopefully) a little cooler! I have many goals for this month in our lives and household, so let me share!

1. Schedule our fall photo shoot. 

As you might remember, we do a photo shoot every fall. Without fail, I typically forget I need to schedule it, and I find myself scrambling to find a photographer with availability! So high on my list early this month is to get our date on the calendar! I am really looking forward to this year's photo shoot, because it will mark TEN YEARS since our engagement photo shoot! (Should we redo some of those poses?) 

2. Complete my Connection Center Coordinator training for Love INC.

I started the first of these trainings earlier this week, but the Love INC National office has weekly trainings throughout the month of September for the position that I hold in the office. I am excited for what I have already learned in the first training and am looking forward to the remainder of the sessions. I want to gather as much knowledge and as many ideas as I can to help make our affiliate healthier and as productive as it can be!

3. Work on the Love INC website.

The website for our affiliate needs a complete update. Last month, a gentleman from our community spent a morning with Ryan and me, helping us set up a fresh website, but I still need to do basically all the work to get it going. A big part of me is excited for this, because it's all about writing and creating, but I'm also NOT a website creator, so another part of me is very nervous about trying to figure it all out. I know Ryan will help with it, and I'm excited to see how it looks when we get it done enough to make it live. (Websites are never really done. They're a work in progress, always.)

4. Decorate our front porch.

This is one of my "ten projects before the end of the year" list items, and I've been saving it for fall. To refresh your memory, our front porch is probably one of the smallest porches I've ever seen in my life. It's in a little cove, and there's literally room for the door and that's it. Decorating it will present a fine challenge. I am hoping to find a very small, narrow table I can place off to the side to hold a few decorations. That might be the hardest part of the whole project. But I am really looking forward to giving some life and color to that space!

5. Finish preparing for the women's retreat.

This is retreat month! I am speaking at a nearby church's women's retreat, and I am so excited to serve them. They chose my Be Still theme, and that is one of my favorites to share. My material is ready, but I want to continue spending time with it prior to the retreat so I can give it my very best. I also need to finish up my slides so they're ready to go. 

6. Make my scrapbook of our family trip.

It wasn't a super long trip, so the book shouldn't take a ton of time to put together. But I definitely want to get it assembled before the memories start to fade in my mind. I've learned that the sooner I put together books after a trip, the better my journaling is. 

7. Choose my workouts early each day.

I really enjoy the website I've been using for my workouts, and I appreciate that on the daily calendar, there are options for different workouts. It helps on days when I want to choose something longer (because I have time) or shorter (because I don't have time). But I need to start making those choices earlier in the day so I can prepare for what's ahead. I think this will also help hold me accountable when I want to do the shortest option I can find even if I do have time! 

8. Journal more thoroughly.

I've been keeping a daily journal since I was fifteen, but starting in the WillowBridge days, the entries became kind of pathetic. Some days I was too tired to write and other days I didn't really want to remember the events of the day. My daily writing prompts over the past few months have made me want to be more intentional and thorough in my regular journal entries, so that is a goal for the month of September!