A Year of Firsts

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This year I have been led to focus on wisdom and to follow after GOD to become a wiser wife, mom, and woman. I have seen already that this will me new things for me. I have noticed too that this year will be more focused inward and on my family than on my business and ministry which I have spent the bulk of my focus on for the past 3 years. The Lord is showing me that the time I spent on my business and ministry has been well spent and it has brought me to the point where I am today. That point is being able to delegate more and be more “hands off” with my business especially. This is what has resulted as a result of my hard work for the past 3 years.

As a result, I’ll be spending more time on personal and family things this year. One of those things on a personal level is “exercise”. I have not exercised consistently since high school. I have found the 10 minute cardio workouts I have done for 3 days challenging, but I am not giving up!

Secondly, is healthy eating, I’ve never thought I needed to “diet” because I don’t struggle with weight issues (thank the Lord), but I do need to eat healthier and be more aware of what I am eating. My husband needs this as well, so we are on a mission to eat “healthier”.

These are the main things that are firsts for me this year. What about you, are you changing your lifestyle in any way. Tell me about it!

I’m Migrating

I didn’t want to say I was “moving” people would think I was really moving in real life, but no that’s not true.  But I am migrating my blog.  I’m not certain that this will be a permanent thing so I’m just saying for the “time being” a term that is so often used in my region of the world.

Lately, my life has become full and busy.  Kids, ministry, articles, client work, networking, family, church, responsibilities, it can all add up too fast and the 24 hours that I have in a day just do not seem to be enough to get it all done.  So, I’m trying to be a smart business woman and I have been devoting most of my blogging to my ministry site.  Then, I realized I was neglecting this blog, but honestly couldn’t churn out anymore content.

I wondered, “could I do both?”  so my solution is combining them, at least for now.  I believe that you my faithful readers will begin following me over there and I also hope that the readers of my Beauty by Design ministry blog will enjoy a peek into my life as well.  Don’t worry if you’re subscribed here you will automatically begin receiving the Beauty by Design feed or updates instead as I am about to update the feed right now.

I hope you understand and I hope to see you on the Beauty by Design Blog!

New Year, New Goals

As I have said many times, I like new years because  I like a fresh start, a new beginning, even  though, not much in all honesty really changed at the strike of 12 last night at least not in circumstances, it did in my mind. You see, it gave me hope and a fresh perspective through which to view my life.

So, to review my  slogan for 2009 is “By faith, I claim God’s  Promises as mine in 2009.” And my Scripture is “Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.” Hebrews 10:23

Hope to me is what 2009 is going to be about. So, without further ado here are my goals in each area of life for me:

Personal

• Think more positively.- all year
• Stick to a monthly budget.- monthly
• Save more money.- monthly
• Always have a Bible study to do.- every 4-6 weeks

Ministry

• 12 Speaking Engagements- by year’s end
• 4 new ebooks -1 per quarter
• Launch training program- by June
• Double list subscribers- by year’s end

Writing Business

• Steady, consistent income stream.- in 3 months (by March)
• 5 Blog Management Clients- (by March)
• To be able to outsource some of the writing to a co-writer. (by June)
• Referral / Affiliate program (by June)

New Biz

• Setup- (by February 1)
• Writing initial articles (by February 14)
• Making a residual income from the biz monthly. (by August)
• Growing and expanding to take on writers. (by next year)