I go back and forth (and back and forth) on goal setting. Sometimes, I want to set monthly goals. Sometimes, I want to set quarterly goals. Sometimes, I think this whole goal-setting process is silly and don’t want to do it at all. I know of only one other blogger who uses her blog to set goals, so it’s not something I see very many people doing.
And yet.
I still love to use my blog to set goals. I still love thinking about what I want to accomplish. And I’m still way more likely to work toward my goals if I have to report back to my blog about my accomplishments later. (It’s the Obliger in me.)
I never used to get excited about the start of a new quarter, but there’s something refreshing about it. If we break our year up into three-month chunks, rather than looking at is as a whole or in monthly increments, it makes establishing goals and achieving them a little easier. There’s enough time, but not too much time.
So, here I am. Setting quarterly goals once again. I know I’m a mess when it comes to how I set goals, so I thank you for bearing with me. I’ve broken these goals into six sections – finances, health, writing, nagging tasks, adventure, and personal habits – because these are the sections that I’m always striving for. Finances, health, and writing are the big areas of my life where I’m constantly looking to improve and take chances. Nagging tasks, adventure, and personal habits are areas for me to take care of things, step outside my comfort zone, and experiment with my life and see what happens.
FINANCES | Move my savings to a CapitalOne 360 Savings account.
HEALTH | Use MyFitnessPal to track my food and walk 5,000 steps a day.
NAGGING TASK | Finish my mom’s wedding album (just in time for her second anniversary, oops).
ADVENTURE | Enjoy the hell out of Puerto Rico.
WRITING | Pitch an article.
PERSONAL HABIT | Stop snoozing my alarm.
Your thoughts on goal setting? Yay or nay?
I think this is a great way to approach goals. One per category is the right amount. I think that the downfall of goal making is that many set too many and forget what the goals are or get too overwhelmed or intimidated by them!
I might be the one blogger you are talking about that sets goals. I set annual goals at the beginning of the year and usually check in on them at the half way point. And this year I am doing a happiness project which has a different focus for each month which I am really loving!! It’s nice to change my focus each month based on what is going on in my life. I lumped April and may together and my focus for these 2 months is scheduling which is what I need to focus on. If I hadn’t taken a monthly approach, I wouldn’t have been able to predict that this is what I need! I think the quarterly approach is great too.
Good luck with your goals!!
I say “yay” to goal setting! I’ve seen a lot of bloggers doing goal setting and it’s inspiring me to want to do it too! I keep meaning to start blogging about it but then I never get around to it. I really need to start! I feel like it will help keep me accountable, too. I also like the idea of quarterly as well! I do my Shutterfly photo albums on a quarterly basis and it seems better than once a month. I like the quarterly goals because it gives you more time to work on things.
Your goals for this quarter all look really reasonable and do-able. Good luck!
I think it’s great that you write down your goals here… especially if you feel that writing them down and posting them holds you accountable in some ways.
I’ve occasionally blogged about some goals, but overall, I feel like I would “repeat” myself, because some of the goals would be ongoing goals which I just would like to keep up… other goals might be just one-time goals, but I have a hard time to come up with them at the beginning of the months.
I don’t know, if it works for you, keep doing it!