Each month I plan to have four goals, one for each of my 2014 themes. Depending on the goal, I may continue that goal for more than one month but each month will have one new goal per theme.
What's in store for April?
1. Organized: Planning my weeks and prepping what I can in advance. This was a March goal that needs more practice. And my new goal for the month is creating a budget.
2. Positive: I'm in a bit of mental funk right now and desperately need a change in mindset. So April begins #100happydays. I've seen quite a few people doing this and now I'm going to join the happiness bandwagon.
3. Consistent: Stick to my half marathon training plan. We don't want a repeat of the NYC Half when I hit Brooklyn in May.
4. Social: Celebrate my birthday!
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Monday, March 31, 2014
March goals - retrospective
My March goals didn't get published but I was still working on them. Here's how I did.
1. Organized: Start planning my meals (actually writing them out) AND doing my grocery shopping on the weekend AND pre-preparing what I can for the week.
Hmm, I was pretty good at the planning part and the grocery shopping part but I didn't do so well on pre-preparing. This meant that my good intentions with planning didn't always lead to good execution. I'm putting this one on my April list to keep working on it.
2. Positive: Make a change that scares me.
I love routine and I generally play things pretty safe. But following the old saying "A change is as good as a holiday" and knowing that holidays make me happy, I challenged myself to make a change in March. That change was cutting my hair short. And I love it! While it's not as short as I planned and many wouldn't understand why that would scare me, it did and I'm super happy for challenging myself to do it.
3. Consistent: March goals will be written AND I will hit at least four quality work outs each week.
I'm giving myself a yes on the goal writing (even though they weren't published) and major miss on the work outs. I did get struck down with a horrible cold again but that wasn't the only thing to get me off track. I'm putting this goal on the back-burner and will revisit again later in the year.
4. Social: Go for coffee/drinks/dinner/other social activity with at least two people I haven't socialized with before.
Yay! Another tick on this one. I went to a comedy show and after work drinks with new people this month.
How are you going with your 2014 goals?
1. Organized: Start planning my meals (actually writing them out) AND doing my grocery shopping on the weekend AND pre-preparing what I can for the week.
Hmm, I was pretty good at the planning part and the grocery shopping part but I didn't do so well on pre-preparing. This meant that my good intentions with planning didn't always lead to good execution. I'm putting this one on my April list to keep working on it.
2. Positive: Make a change that scares me.
I love routine and I generally play things pretty safe. But following the old saying "A change is as good as a holiday" and knowing that holidays make me happy, I challenged myself to make a change in March. That change was cutting my hair short. And I love it! While it's not as short as I planned and many wouldn't understand why that would scare me, it did and I'm super happy for challenging myself to do it.
3. Consistent: March goals will be written AND I will hit at least four quality work outs each week.
I'm giving myself a yes on the goal writing (even though they weren't published) and major miss on the work outs. I did get struck down with a horrible cold again but that wasn't the only thing to get me off track. I'm putting this goal on the back-burner and will revisit again later in the year.
4. Social: Go for coffee/drinks/dinner/other social activity with at least two people I haven't socialized with before.
Yay! Another tick on this one. I went to a comedy show and after work drinks with new people this month.
How are you going with your 2014 goals?
Saturday, February 1, 2014
February goals
Each month I plan to have four goals, one for each of my 2014 themes. Depending on the goal, I may continue that goal for more than one month but each month will have one new goal per theme.
What's in store for February?
1. Organized: Start planning my meals (actually writing them out) AND doing my grocery shopping on the weekend AND pre-preparing what I can for the week.
And finish off my January goal of organizing those boxes.
2. Positive: I'd like to continue to work on practicing gratitude. My new positivity goal for February is taking my lunch break away from my desk once a week. I scheduled some "be happy" time in my calendar this week and it completely turned my day around.
3. Consistent: March goals will be written AND I will hit at least four quality work outs each week.
4. Social: My social goal is attend a new social event (new place or new people).
February is already starting off well, as I've escaped the Chicago deep freeze! Getting away from the cold to run my first half marathon for 2014 is certainly helping me feel positive!
What's in store for February?
1. Organized: Start planning my meals (actually writing them out) AND doing my grocery shopping on the weekend AND pre-preparing what I can for the week.
And finish off my January goal of organizing those boxes.
2. Positive: I'd like to continue to work on practicing gratitude. My new positivity goal for February is taking my lunch break away from my desk once a week. I scheduled some "be happy" time in my calendar this week and it completely turned my day around.
3. Consistent: March goals will be written AND I will hit at least four quality work outs each week.
4. Social: My social goal is attend a new social event (new place or new people).
February is already starting off well, as I've escaped the Chicago deep freeze! Getting away from the cold to run my first half marathon for 2014 is certainly helping me feel positive!
Friday, January 31, 2014
January goals - retrospective
Back at the beginning of the month, I set some goals for January. Now it's time to see how I did!
1. Organized: My goal was to clear out four boxes of 'stuff' in my living room.
Of the four boxes, I got got through about one and half. I travelled a bit at the beginning of the month and then got struck down with the plague. Not a success but I'll put on February's list of goals. It will get done!
2. Positive: I planned, every day for at least one week, to write down three things I am grateful for.
Done-ish! I didn't write down but I did use my workout time to reflect on things I'm grateful for. I'm happy with that progress.
3. Consistent: Write my February goals!
Done! I'll post these tomorrow.
4. Social: I wanted to write up a birthday/celebration list and schedule dates to send cards.
Done! List completed and some cards are already sent.
So, not perfect, but moving in the direction I want to and that's enough.
For anyone else who set goals, how are you going?
1. Organized: My goal was to clear out four boxes of 'stuff' in my living room.
Of the four boxes, I got got through about one and half. I travelled a bit at the beginning of the month and then got struck down with the plague. Not a success but I'll put on February's list of goals. It will get done!
2. Positive: I planned, every day for at least one week, to write down three things I am grateful for.
Done-ish! I didn't write down but I did use my workout time to reflect on things I'm grateful for. I'm happy with that progress.
3. Consistent: Write my February goals!
Done! I'll post these tomorrow.
4. Social: I wanted to write up a birthday/celebration list and schedule dates to send cards.
Done! List completed and some cards are already sent.
So, not perfect, but moving in the direction I want to and that's enough.
For anyone else who set goals, how are you going?
Friday, January 3, 2014
January goals
Each month I plan to have four goals, one for each of my 2014 themes. Depending on the goal, I may continue that goal for more than one month but each month will have one new goal per theme.
What's in store for January?
1. In the theme of being organized, in January I will throw away any unused, no longer needed (or more likely, they were never needed in the first place) items stored in four archive boxes I have in my living room. These boxes and their contents have not only moved house with me a number of times but also half way around the world. And in the 18 months I've lived in Chicago, I have sought out items in them maybe three times!
2. In the theme of being positive, every day for at least one week I will write down three things I am grateful for.
When I was planning my January goals, one of the things I was considering was working on reducing how judgmental of myself I can be. Then this came through my twitter feed.
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
It made me laugh! And also helped me decide to work on gratitude first. Changing thoughts is not a one step, one month process!
3. In the theme of being consistent, in January I will write my February goals!
4. In the theme of being social, I will write up a birthday/celebration list and schedule dates to send cards. I really have to plan ahead with this because the US to Australia postal service = very inconsistent timing. Sometimes it takes just over a week, sometimes it takes three weeks! Ridiculous!! I will purchase cards and send them to my friends and family who have a birthday this month or early February.
So, there you have it. Please ignore the fact that there isn't a single running related goal here, despite that this blog is supposed to be about running.
And, yes, I did notice my excessive use of exclamation points. Maybe one of my February goals should be about reducing my exclamation point use?
What's in store for January?
1. In the theme of being organized, in January I will throw away any unused, no longer needed (or more likely, they were never needed in the first place) items stored in four archive boxes I have in my living room. These boxes and their contents have not only moved house with me a number of times but also half way around the world. And in the 18 months I've lived in Chicago, I have sought out items in them maybe three times!
2. In the theme of being positive, every day for at least one week I will write down three things I am grateful for.
When I was planning my January goals, one of the things I was considering was working on reducing how judgmental of myself I can be. Then this came through my twitter feed.
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
It made me laugh! And also helped me decide to work on gratitude first. Changing thoughts is not a one step, one month process!
3. In the theme of being consistent, in January I will write my February goals!
4. In the theme of being social, I will write up a birthday/celebration list and schedule dates to send cards. I really have to plan ahead with this because the US to Australia postal service = very inconsistent timing. Sometimes it takes just over a week, sometimes it takes three weeks! Ridiculous!! I will purchase cards and send them to my friends and family who have a birthday this month or early February.
So, there you have it. Please ignore the fact that there isn't a single running related goal here, despite that this blog is supposed to be about running.
And, yes, I did notice my excessive use of exclamation points. Maybe one of my February goals should be about reducing my exclamation point use?
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