Sometimes I feel like I am fighting an up hill battle trying to be green in this plastic jungle. There are so many things in our home here in Thailand that I want to change to improve our carbon foot print. Every year we try, but just get so frustrated and over whelmed that we give up on many things. This year we agreed to try something new.After reading this article I decided that we needed a family mission statement. I am a total 7 Habits person, and I feel that it is important to begin with the end in mind. So, family meeting time! It's not easy to sum up your life in a paragraph, but I recommended to keep it simple and don't try to over think it. Simply look at what you think is most important and what your family hopes to represent. In other words, when poeple look at you, what do you want them to see?
In order to really live this mission statement,we have decided to concentrate on changing one thing a month that we feel needs changing in our lives. It may be something to move towards lowering our carbon foot print, to a health change or maybe even a spiritual change. Heaven knows we got issues and 12 months ain't gonna change them all, but by taking them one baby step at a time, maybe we will really make important changes..
I challenge you to join us in the baby steps to change our lives. Each moth choose one thing that you would like to change in your home or life style. It might be using only reusable grocery bags, changing to chemical free cleaners, changing to cloth diapers or giving up meat. You make the choices on what you feel are the most important things that you what to change. Through out the month work on your goal and then blog about it, and send me a link to you blog. Or add your comments here. I look forward to hearing what you would like to change and how you do it.
Although it is almost April, I am adding my journals for the past few months so you can see how we have faired.
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