Smart Habit Saturday

Welcome to Smart Habit Saturday! If you’ve been thinking about joining our carnival I really want to encourage you to do it. This experience has been wonderful for everyone, the participants and the readers. I know I’m not the only one who feels like they are getting their life back in simple and small ways that really add up. Not only am I working on my own habits but I find myself working on everyone else’s habits as well. If you feel up to it, please join us so we can be inspired by you too!

Getting Started with SHS - Please don't forget to link back to this post so your readers can find out more about SHS. Oh, and I loved everyone listing their name and habit in their link. It made is so much easier to keep track of everyone. Please do that again, thanks!

I hope everyone had a fabulous week with their habits because I sure did. I was amazing. Ok, so I picked an easy habit! I found that reviewing my planner every morning and evening really went along with the habit I started two weeks ago of personal prayer. I took that time to kneel down and open my planner. I was able to pray about the things I had coming up in my life or things that had already happened and I stopped to write down any impressions I received while I prayed. I’m so excited about the way these two habits are changing my life! Wednesday morning I kept putting off my prayer and planner time and guess what? In my typical absent minded fashion, I forgot about my son’s scout meeting. It’s a good thing Rosie called an hour before to remind us! Thanks Rosie!

So what should my habit be this week? Do you think I should pick something more difficult? I’ll tell you one that I’ve been considering but I don’t know if I have the courage to follow through. It’s going to bed without snacking. How about if I let myself have a snack two nights a week? Would that be fair? I’m going to think about this some more and maybe give it a try if I can find the courage. In the mean time I’m going to add a different habit.

Week #4 - My habit this week will be keeping my desk cleared off. I clear it off and things just pile up again. I keep waiting to deal with the mess when I get cabinets installed but that’s not going to happen for a while. We want to rip out the window that’s in here and put in a bigger one. Like that’s going to happen any time soon! In the mean time I need to find a solution that works to control the clutter.

Week #3 Planner review - This was easy but it was also important. I'm still working on it but I think it will very quickly become a habit.


Week #2 Two personal prayers and one family prayer every day - I did really well this week but it's not quite a habit yet.


Week #1 Clean the toilet once a day – Getting it done. Not a habit yet. Any minute now!

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