I’m sharing my monthly goals ideas here to hopefully inspire you, and so you can hold me accountable! These are my Spring goals for March 2020. I made a printable goals sheet a couple years ago to write them down. If you’d like a free copy, it’s available at the end of this post. I write the month in the heart.
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If you’re new here, I’m a homeschooling mom of 6 little boys. My husband works full-time and we farm cash crops, hay, and cattle. I handle the marketing for the farm and help with the animals and the hay. I’m definitely more work-at-home mom than stay-at-home mom these days. I also enjoy riding and working with horses and connecting with other women through social media and this site. My husband and I follow Dave Ramsey’s principals, which you can read more about in our money story. These monthly goals ideas definitely reflect our lifestyle.
Family Goals:
- Do 1 “Boys’ Date” day where my husband and/or I spend time with some or all of the boys doing something that they want to do. So far this year we have done Splash Village and 4-H Winter Camp. This month it might be practicing shooting their BB guns, something they often ask to do.
- For homeschooling, complete 4 weeks of Sonlight Level B with my oldest two and stay on track with their Foundations and Essentials lessons and well as Montessori math. Also, complete 4 weeks of preschool with my youngest four.
- Have my sister and her fiance over at least one time.
- Write and deliver or mail a few birthday cards.
Home Goals:
- Konmari – Bathrooms. This is the home organization method from the book The Magic Art of Tidying Up. I’ve been working my way through each category slowly. We did the whole list at our old house and it really helped create a peaceful mood in our home. Many parts of this new house are still not organized and the chaos stresses me out. I’d like to do the bathrooms this month and possibly work on our dining bench where I’ll be able to start organizing office supplies.
- Start garden seeds that can be winter sown. I just got orders in from MIGardener and Gurney’s. Let me now if you’d like to hear more about what we’re growing this year.
- Get camper ready for rodeo season – woohoo!
Marriage Goals:
- 2 Date Nights: One will be an upcoming banquet for our local crisis pregnancy center. Later on this month we’d like to do a date night to Menards for a new doorknob and some electrical supplies, and maybe peruse a hot tub store to keep learning about what kind will be best for us. If you have a hot tub, please tell me all about it! There are so many options.
- Check in to at home dance programs. Every since we went to Texas and started learning to two-step Facebook keeps showing us ads for video programs that teach dancing. It might be fun to try that – at home where no one can laugh except us! Anyone tried it?
Personal Goals:
- Apply self-tanner once a week. This is new for me and I’m excited to maybe get away from the permanent farmer tan.
- Decide whether or not to join the spring Style Challenge. Whether I do or not, I NEED to buy some new clothes soon. So many of my clothes are literally falling apart, including the only jeans that fit me. It’s bad guys.
Reading Goals
- Continue reading my Bible in a year with a plan from the Bible app.
- Continue reading the Mom Heart Moments devotional each day.
- Finish The Connected Child.
- Finish Cold-Case Christianity.
- Finish listening to C.S. Lewis: A Life on the Libby app.
- Start & finish Interwoven: A Pioneer Chronicle.
- Start & finish Before And After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society. This is a non-fiction sequel to Before We Were Yours, which I read last month.
- Start & finish Whole Heart, Whole Horse. I read Horses Never Lie last month, also by Mark Rashid, and I learned a lot.
- Start & finish Eat That Frog: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time.
Health Goals:
- Make it at least 7 days on the Sugar Fast. Take it week by week after that.
- Limit my late nights to 3 a week. Try to be in bed by 10 the other nights, even if I’m reading (but no screens!).
Financial Goals:
- Hit our monthly savings goals.
- Get back to our investment pro about tweaking the boys’ college funds.
- LIst Suburban for sale (maybe)
Business (Farm) Goals:
- Get sand for new barn and asphalt millings for driveway hauled in as soon as the weather allows.
- Paint new panel for shop door and have it installed.
- Get estimate for shed repair.
Horses Goals:
- Get estimate for new fencing.
- Ride Jewel, my current mustang project, 3x/week.
- Decide on location for round pen and order it as soon as the sand is ready.
I hope this gives you some good monthly goals ideas.
Ready to set your own monthly goals? Grab the free printable before you go!