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How do you plan to keep track of and evaluate your goals for 2008? I made this minibook. On the front cover is my one-word theme for the year, BUILD. Last year I laid a strong foundation for the areas I on which I want to focus and this year I look forward to building on that foundation.
I also journaled statements for my four focus areas around three of the edges.
You know how I love to reuse and re-purpose items rather than dispose of them. I often keep things that are in good condition, even if I don’t yet have an idea for them, like the negative envelopes in the photo below.
I had about fifty of these that I no longer needed since we switched to digital. Last year I pulled them out of my photo storage box and, unwilling to throw away (or even recycle) something that is in perfect condition, I saved them with the idea that I’d find a good use for them someday.
I just trimmed away the top of the backside of the envelope and recovered them with patterned paper. Each envelope has its own month. At the start of each new month I will adhere my goals for that month. Over the next thirty days, or at the end of them, I will write my thoughts and evaluations on a note card (unless I find something else to salvage). I may or may not decorate the note cards.
On the back of the envelope for the previous month, I’ll adhere pictures that go along with my goals and projects…which, again, I may or may not decorate. The pictures will face their own month.
If you’re interested in making a journal like this one, you’re not likely to have the same stack of negative envelopes waiting for transformation. But what do you have? You could do something similar with the envelopes that arrive in your mail box everyday. Just cut the flap off (or keep it and use it) and recover.
If you created something else to hold your New Year’s Resolutions, share it with us by leaving a comment and a link.
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