These aren’t designed to help me be a successful surgeon, but I hope they help me remember how to make the most of this year. So, without further ado, here they are:
Yearly Checklist
- Develop goals for the year
- Set up year’s budget
- Create an envelop to keep handy for putting all tax-related documents collected throughout the year
- Determine what organizations to support financially this year
- Take a family trip!
- Determine garden planting schedule (consult the Almanac too)
Monthly Checklist
- Have a family game night
- Keep a date night
- Have a planning/strategy/check-in session with husband (this is NOT a date)
- Make something with my hands!
- Update the budget/track the month’s spending (and saving)
- Read a book
- Try a new recipe
Weekly Checklist
- Take a bath – home spa style!
- Household chores
- Balance books (i.e. track the budget spending using Quicken Online)
- Call a friend or relative I haven’t heard from for a while
- Clean out my e-mail inbox!
- Seek out surrounding beauty and photograph it
- Check out a new song (I like using lala.com) or a new music artist
- Blog (i.e. find my voice and express myself)
Daily Checklist
- Pray
- Say, “I Love You”
- Speak encouraging words to my kids
- Then check their homework…repeat step above
- Read a news article
- Make sleep a priority
- Smile often!
I like the lists. It helps to have things broken down into small bites.
Speaking of, my daily list includes “have some chocolate” – which helps me to smile.