Our Motivation Game!

Sean just called me. He just got done knocking on a door and no one answered. So he started walking to find another door to knock on when an idea popped into his head. Sean has been reading a book called, "The Slight Edge" and in this book it talks about the importance of doing the small things that don't seem so important. But, when you do these small, mundane, not-so-important things, they became a huge impact throughout your day, week, month, etc.
So... Sean had this great idea on how to help us get up early each day to get our day started and with the right mindset.

Sean works Monday-Friday from 12:20pm-9:30ish pm.

Our game will go something like this:

- We give ourselves 2 points as a couple for waking up and getting out of bed by 8am. If we wake up by 8:30am we get 1pt. If we aren't out of bed by 9am we get 0pts.

- 1pt for making the bed each morning

- 2pts for exercising together in the morning (walk, run, workout video, etc.)

- We give ourselves 1pt for washing our dishes as soon as we are done using them

- 1pt for cleaning the counters, table, etc. before we go to bed each night

- 3pts for reading at least 1 chapter from the Book of Mormon each night as a couple

- 3pts for kneeling & saying our prayer each night as a couple

- 2pts for writing in our personal journal every Sunday (We can write other days of the week but Sunday is the day we will count the points)

- 4pts Family Home Evening every Monday night

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There will be more added to the list but you get the idea.

At first, Sean was thinking of doing this as a competition. But then he was thinking how he didn't want it to be a race to do things, but rather a way to help us work together throughout each day to better our relationship and help us get into a better routine. We know how important it is to read our scriptures, say our prayers, and do family home evening but it's the most important things that become the easier things to let go out of our day to day routine. It is so sad, but true. We have given ourselves more points for doing these things until they become a habit, then we will maybe decrease the points to 1 or 2 rather than 3 and 4.

Once we reach 100 pts. we can go out to eat, go to a movie, etc.  
Treat ourselves :)