2013 Goals

I'm not very good at resolutions, so I don't usually make any, but I'm feeling the need to get my energy focused and redirected in a more productive way. Making a list of a few goals for the year seemed to be a good way to do that, so without further adieu, here they are:

1. Spend more time with my kiddos, and less time connected to the computer, phone, TV etc. I want this to be good quality time, not just 'sitting in the same room' time. I want to get to know them better, and let them get to know me. With our crazy schedules I have let chores and other things get in the way of spending quality time with them. 
2. Get out my camera...even if it's just the one on my phone. I want to take at least one picture a day...something to build a photo scrapbook of the year from. This is going to be REALLY challenging for me, but I want to be better about recording this time in our lives. The kids are getting big way too fast!
3. Run 850 miles this year. This feels like a stretch, but hopefully something that is attainable. I managed 312 last year and didn't start my Couch to 5K until the middle of July. I'm running more miles per week now and have several races on the docket so I'm hoping to knock this one out of the park.
4. Run (at least) 13 races. Sort of random, but I have this idea in my mind to run 40 races before I turn 40 so I had best get going on that. :) It's sneaking up on me faster than I would like.
5. Continue my pattern of exercising at least 5 times per week. So far, I have gone for 6 consecutive months. I'd like to add another 12 months to that. 
6. Take more time to focus on my own personal intellectual and spiritual development. Whether that is reading a new book, writing, learning about something new, praying and reading my scriptures or just spending some time in my own head, I need more of it.

Those are the few that are most developed right now. There are a few more swimming around in my head that I might come back and add later, but I don't want to have so many that I can't accomplish them either. Most everything else I want to do just involves managing my time better.