Today I Made... Seven goals for 2011

As Maria from the Sound of Music sings...  "Let's start at the very beginning..."

The seven goals I have for 2011 stem out of a decision to live the next 12 months (and the rest of my life) with intentionality.  In fact, I am going to be participating in an online class called "One Little Word".  Here is an excerpt from the instructor's opening remarks.

"Because words are important to me, I always like to start out a lot of my classes with a quote or something to think about. I came across this one, which is from Confucius. It says, "Words are the voice of the heart." I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately as I’ve been getting ready for this class and as I’ve been planning out the different prompts that we’re going to have throughout the year, and I loved the visual of this. The kind of idea of words coming out of the heart and that words give voice to our hearts. It’s just something that I really enjoyed and wanted to make sure that I shared with you as we begin the class this year."  -Ali Edwards

And my word for 2011 is INTENTIONAL - Done or made or performed with purpose and intent.

And the first Intentional act for Jan 1, 2011, is to make a list of seven goals I want to accomplish by Dec 31, 2011.  (In no particular order) and SMART:  specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely.

1.  Lose 30 pounds.

2.  Run a 5K

3.  Blog at least twice a week

4.  Knit 1 square per week for Knit-a-Square

5.  Learn to play O Holy Night on the guitar

6.  Read through the whole Bible

7.  Finish "One Little Word" book

So this is my list of seven...  What are yours?