Our Vision Board for the year 2017

Before 2016 ends, I made my Vision board for the year 2017, and I feel good about it. It is a fresh start for me and for my husband too. I am praying to the Lord almighty that He will bless our desire for this coming year. 

My Vision Board shows our aspirations for our Personal and Married Life, our Health, our Business and Education and our Spiritual Calling. I will try my best to elaborate everything here.

Personal and Married Life

Healthy Living is the key for a happy married life. We are not young anymore and we need to take care of our body. Our body is the temple of the holy spirit so we need to be a good steward of it.

Eat Better. We need to be cautious with the food that we are eating. We need to remove all the junks and replace it with vegetables, fruits and herbs. I started to make our own dip (from herbs like basil and tomatoes) and use it for my husband's sandwich instead of Mayonnaise.  We also count our calories and use the My Fitness Pal apps to track what we are eating. It is hard for me at first because I didn’t measure anything when I cook food. That’s why my husband always tease me that I cannot replicate the food that I made. I am proud of it though because I can cook good food even without following any recipe. I didn’t follow any cookbook because I always use the ingredients that are available in the fridge, plus I love experimenting and cooking food from scratch. I am just blessed that my husband is not picky and eat anything I put in the table.

Positive Thinking and Feel Good.  This is my mantra for this year, always be positive no matter how tough life’s going. Norman Vincent Peale mentioned in his The Power of the Positive Thinking book that before we get up from bed, let us feed our mind with positive outlook in life. Imagine things that we want to accomplish in life and mention this verse at least three times, “This is the day that the Lord has made we will rejoice and be glad in it!” and everything else will follow.  It is effective for me so why not give it a try and see for yourself the result. We also commit to magnify God’s love in everything and Start each day with Hope and Trust to the Lord!

Regular Exercise. Honestly, I can count in my fingers the time that I intentionally did exercise. I don’t know but I am so lazy doing it. However, I need to force myself and be more optimistic about it until it becomes my habit. I just need to do it diligently until it becomes part of my daily routine. I need to set a plan and start it by just walking around no matter what the weather condition is.  Without exercising, my body is sluggish and so with my mind. I noticed it when I was running out of breath by just walking from the parking lot to the apartment. I need to become active and breath fresh air outside at least 30 minutes once a day. I have to do it with my husband and do it as our Quality Time together.

She Desires Love, He Needs Respect. This is no brainer but hard to do especially when we are being shaded with our own desires, pride and selfishness. Gladly, Paul gave us the guidelines in his letter to the Ephesians on how to achieve the happy and fulfilling married life.

Ephesians 5:22-33

 ²² Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.²³ For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing^[a] her by the washingwith water through the word, ²⁷ and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. ²⁸ In this same way, husbands ought to love their wivesas their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— ³⁰ for we are members of his body.³¹ “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”^[b] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³ However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Ephesian 5:22-33

Travel and Explore at least 1 place once a Month Together. It is nice to build good memories together. We decided to explore the culture of at least 1 place once a month. It is not necessarily be done by visiting other country but by just exploring the neighboring cities within New York or other States within USA will give us the glimpse of each culture. Yes, every place has their own culture and we have differences in any means. It is also great to learn the history of each place and be fascinated with the beauty of the nature that each place can offer.  I will try to share all of those places that we will visit in this blog (yay something to look forward!). 

BUSINESS AND EDUCATION

My husband to earn His Bachelor’s Degree and 1 Master’s Degree. We value the essence of education in our life. This is the treasure that nobody can take away from us. Knowledge. So we are hoping that my husband can get his Bachelor’s Degree early this year and continue with His Master’s Degree. I might get one too for Entrepreneurship but that could be later this year. I want to dedicate my time with our business first and have it stable before venturing to another thing.

E-Commerce Business  to Earn minimum Profit of $xxxxx. Other people can do it so can I. At this point, my business is just a name and no product yet but I am working on it. I don’t lose hope with this as I don’t even start selling. I might not be selling the original product that we were thinking of but there are so many products out there to sell. We realized that there is opportunity to grow financially in doing eCommerce because American loves to buy anything online. Thanks God for my very supportive husband. I will forever be grateful for this.

SPIRITUAL CALLING

We are all called to share the gospel to everyone. It’s been a long time since we didn’t involve in any church ministries or did mission trips together. We don’t want to be like a Dead Sea that secrete all the minerals of the sea and contain it in one place that makes it dead. It should be flowing like the Jordan River. All the spiritual nourishments that we got from church and mid-week study should be shared to other people so it will bear fruit. We decided to commit to attend at least one Samaritan’s Purse Mission Trip together and conduct Bible Study in our weekly life group at church. We are praying that the holy spirit will give us wisdom and knowledge to share to others and that the God Almighty will use us to bring more people to Christ. We strongly believe that everybody needs Christ for our salvation, and also for our direction in life. With this, we are committed to help others in achieving their dreams by  sharing Christ in their life and walk with them until they achieve their dreams.

I have confidence to the Lord that my husband and I can achieve all these goals in His perfect time. We just have to press on and run the race to win.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13)