When I set goals I like to have reminders. This one is a good reminder for us. Hard to see from far away because I went with rainbow colored chevron paper but it gets the job done. Each square represents $200 saved. Our goal is 20,000. I hope that we can do this before 2014. It would be pretty cool to say that we got out of debt and saved for our down payment within the same year. To God be the Glory!

So as a family we are setting the goal to save, save, save.

What goals do you want to achieve before the year ends? Are there dreams of yours that you have been putting off.

In our family playbook, We put this as a priority-We want to live a life of faith where each day God must show up in order for life to be meaningful.

I know that I can’t do anything absent of Christ. Living with purpose isn’t something that comes easy to me. Believe me- my motto has been and sometimes is “I live day to day, because that is all I can think about.” I have lived so many of my years that way because that was all I could handle.

So..my advice is start with the playbook. Somehow once that all got on paper it was easier to see what we wanted our life to be about in this season of life.

It is neat to see what this is teaching our daughter. A few weeks ago I explained to Ella that we were saving money for a new home. We talked about goals etc.

Last week this happened.

Ella : Mom, I don’t want to eat the rest of this sandwich. I want something else.

Me: Ella, when you waste food, you are keeping us from our goal. (She also understands that Disney World is also something we are saving for) (My kid loves some Disney) She talks about it every other day.

Ella: Oh ya….Ok. I will finish it.

Me: Thanks Ella.

So….setting goals is building character in all of us.