Showing posts with label improve your marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label improve your marriage. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Will your New Year's Resolution be a #fail?

New Year's Resolution List
Everyone makes new year resolutions....
Who will hold you accountable for yours? I challenge you to hold yourself accountable!
Take just a minute or two to write down your plan to accomplish your goal. Include what your challenges are and who can help you reach your goal.
Every day, Tweet/Google+/Facebook something related to your resolution and hashtag it #resolution for 90 consecutive days.
  I challenge you! 

Haven't chosen your resolution? Here is a list of fifty nine new year's resolution ideas to choose from.


59 Ideas for your 2014 New Year's Resolution:

  1. Smile at more random people
  2. Eat more fruits and veggies
  3. Watch less TV
  4. Go to bed earlier
  5. Learn CPR and First Aid
  6. Make an active effort to connect with family
  7. Stay fit by simply being active (drive less, walk more)
  8. Don't be taken for granted
  9. Stop fighting with your partner girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, husband or partner
  10. Make better decisions
  11. Stop complaining about how you've got less than what you deserve
  12. Save for a tropical vacation next winter
  13. Fight for what you think is right
  14. Donate to a charity on a weekly or monthly basis
  15. Quit an addiction
  16. Pay cash to upgrade your technology
  17. Accomplish all incomplete projects before start any new projects
  18. Stretch every day
  19. Pay down your debt
  20. Get organized
  21. Balance your life
  22. Travel to new places
  23. Freshen up your love life
  24. Learn a language
  25. Hug somebody everyday
  26. Spend more time with your parents
  27. Start a journal or diary
  28. Get up to speed on the truth in politics, not just the media
  29. Enrich your vocabulary with a word of the day
  30. Be Optimistic: Vow to always view the glass to be half full
  31. Schedule 15 minutes a day to be by yourself and breathe.
  32. Take everything you haven't used in the last two years to the thrift store or the dump
  33. Take a parenting class
  34. Be sincere about punctuality and commitments
  35. Make a career move
  36. Make a will, get life insurance and update your financial files
  37. Join a networking group
  38. Send birthday cards to all your family and friends in the mail
  39. Learn to cook
  40. Get a home energy audit and go green where it makes sense
  41. Learn to play an instrument
  42. Grow a garden
  43. Adopt a pet
  44. Read a book a month
  45. Hydrate: Drink 6-10 glasses of water per day
  46. Move a grown child out of your house
  47. Be Happy
  48. Start a business
  49. Get a home inspection to make sure you are addressing hidden concerns
  50. Send care packages overseas or to local care facilities
  51. Find church to attend
  52. Spend more time with your parents 
  53. Start a business
  54. Cut up your credit cards 
  55. Volunteer 
  56. Repair your credit
  57. Stop procrastinating
  58. Save up the down payment for a house
  59. Get a makeover - and keep it up!

Now get to it! :)


Friday, December 2, 2011

Mistakes Wives Make With Their Husbands

Check out these common mistakes wives make that injure their husband's sensitive pride (adapted from Secrets of Fascinating Womanhood) and tell me what you think. Agree or not? Do you think taht working on these things could improve your marriage? Do you have experience with any of these things?

1) Criticizing his weaknesses.
2) Speaking angrily when he fails in a masculine area of responsibility.
3) Disagreeing with him on masculine matters.
4) Pouring cold water on his ideas.
5) Giving him advice when he has not asked for it.
6) Discussing his career or occupation as if you know as much about it as he does.
7) Reminding him how you struggle on his income.
8) Telling others how much your parents have done for you since you got married.
9) Admiring a masculine quality in another man.
10) Suggesting he call a repair man when he is trying to repair something.
11) Not paying attention when he is telling you about something of which he is proud.
12) Not praising him when he does something outstandingly well.
13) Telling him he is losing his figure or his hair.
14) Holding yourself up as an example for him to follow.
15) Reminding him of your superior education.
16) Excelling him in a male-dominated sport such as athletics, golf, swimming, etc.
17) Going out to work when he would prefer that you stayed at home.
18) Telling others that you have to go out to work to make ends meet.


All these mistakes BELITTLE your husband. They sap his self-confidence.

He feels less manly. He may feel unworthy of you. No matter how much he knows that he should, or would like to. Nor can he bring himself to confide in you, although he may long to. His fear of further hurt and his resentment prevent him. More often, the hurt causes him to feel angry and resentful towards you. He then shows his bad side, his ugly side.

He just can’t feel loving and tender towards you.

There is also another reason why a man may not confide in his wife, even when she is not hurting his pride. That is when she is a blabber mouth. When he cannot trust her to keep it to herself. We must learn to be discreet when our husband confides in us.