Mother-goals

This week Kassie and I were talking about goals vs task orientation. While I can be task oriented, I have been goal focused in my life, specifically during my mommie years. These goals, while they influenced the lives of my family, were really about what I wanted to accomplish. They are in random order just because I can't bear to rate them :)

• Make sure my children knew God loves them.
• See that they learn to turn to him even before me.
• Be sure they know as early as possible the values I hold dear in case I am not around to teach them later.
• Impose no artificial limitations.
• Help them be responsible for themselves and for their own choices.
• Teach them to love nature; to stop and smell the roses.
• To be kind for no reason.
• To value characture over accomplishment both in themselves and in others.
• Be kind to themselves.
• That they are wonderful!
• That laughter cures a lot, even sickness.
• That the difficult things they encounter are not handicaps; just something to overcome.
• To strive to get better, not bitter.
  
  My personal goals:
  
  
• Live in such a way as to create happy wrinkles. (that is almost enough right there).
• Make where I have been a better place because God went there with me and blessed it and those there.
• Leave footprints even a child can follow.
• Create wonder in others.
• Simplify.
  
  Of course there are more; some forgotten, some abandoned, but all shaped who I am.