March 3 in 30 Challenge - Goals

I've been catching up on some of my blog reading recently, and one of my very favorite blogs is he{art}, where Sherry showcases how the Lord is working in her life, her family, and her artistic inspiration.  She has given me some great ideas as of late, and this idea is one of them.  I'm going to sign up for one of the challenges she's participating in, called "3 in 30". 

This challenge is meant to knock goals off your "to-do" list, but in a smaller scale.  This is good for me because while I'm a big fan of lists in general, I tend to be intimidated by them and don't function well at actually tackling the things on my lists.. maybe it's my rebellion against schedule.  Or maybe it's just that I have too many things on my list.  Or maybe I need accountability.

This challenge may very well help me. 

So here are my 3 goals to accomplish in 30 days.  (The month of March)

#1.  Lose 5 or more pounds.  This really isn't a huge goal, I know.  But honestly, with my dear sweet husband working so hard to stay with his P90x plan.. the proper thing for me to do would be to support him.  Unfortunately I'm not convicted enough to want to diet myself.  What am I convicted to do?  Well blog and participate in challenges of course!!  So if I feel convicted to lose a handful of pounds because of this list then I'll in turn become subconsciously more supportive of him.  Do you see where I'm going with this?  Plus I could of course use the weight lost. 

I'm not a fan of diets in general so my plan of attack on this is to eat a little less (I've been consuming almost exactly what a nursing mom should consume if not looking to lose weight, according to sparkpeople, so I'm going to aim at cutting about 300 calories off my consumption) and I'm going to exercise a little more.  This is insanely hard right now because I refuse to pay for a gym membership, but it's 14 degrees and there's a foot of snow on the ground.  I also have no success with workout dvds.  There isn't enough privacy around here to accomplish them unless I want to add diaper changing and hurdling around a 3 year old into the routine.  So I'm going to at least attempt a walk a few times a week.  Hopefully my dear sweet husband (are you reading this?) will agree with this idea because I'd like to have at least 3 hours of time each week with nobody else around me anyway.

#2 on my list is to write a letter or card to someone, actually two letters each week.  That's right, I'm going to break out a good old fashioned pen and paper.  I am disgruntled by the cutting of cursive out of many public school curriculums.  That's one advantage of homeschooling is that I can keep cursive and I plan on teaching my kids good penmanship.  Just because so much is done on computers, doesn't mean that handwriting should be devalued.  So not only am I going to write a couple of notes to people each week, but I am going to attempt to write them in strict cursive, none of the half & half handwriting that I usually use.  Perhaps I'll even use proper English.  Ah, who are we kidding that ain't a gonna happen.  Ha!!

#3 on my list is...  go to bed by 10:00pm.  This will be the hardest.  I have a feeling I might as well resign to the fact that there will be days when it won't happen.  (I know that we hardly ever are home from prayer and praise in time to be tucked in by ten.)  But I'm going to try.  It's a necessity. 

So that's it.  I have a few more days before this challenge officially begins.  Pray for me.  I'll probably need it.  If you feel convicted to join in then jump on over to the 3 in 30 home post and follow the directions to grab the button, etc.