Is this year flying by, or what? I can’t believe we’re halfway through 2014 already! Weren’t we ringing in the new year a week ago? It’s so crazy.
I have spent the past week thinking about how I want to attack the last half of the year, what I want to put in place now to end the year on a high note. I know I’m not incredibly happy with my progress so far in 2014, so I want to really focus and hone in on my big goals so I can sit back at the end of December and feel proud of myself.
With all that said, here’s how I did on my goals for June.
Recapping June goals…
Start my spending freeze, pay off my credit card, and bring my emergency savings to $700. I was able to pay off my credit card – yay! It wasn’t maxed out or anything, but I had been putting purchases on it here and there so the balance was a little high. But because of that, I wasn’t able to sock any money away in my emergency savings.
Write a new “About Me” page for the blog, and put up “Hire Me”/”Contact Me” pages. Yes! I have a new About Me page up and just added the other two pages over the weekend.
Go back to church. Yes! And I am so happy to be back. It feels so right.
Lose 5 lbs. I haven’t weighed myself lately, but I’m pretty sure I can mark this goal as a failure.
Make a dentist appointment. No, but not for lack of trying! When I called to make my appointment last week, I was informed I needed to claim this particular dentist’s office on my health insurance. (I’ve never heard of this!) So I did that, but it takes a few days for all the paperwork to go through. Hopefully going to make the appointment this month, though!
In July, I want to…
Complete 31 workouts in 31 days. I got this idea from Lisa, who just finished 91 workouts in 91 days(!). I’m so inspired by her, and I think taking on this challenge is exactly what I need to get back to a regular exercise routine. I am aiming to work out every day, but I’m sure there will be some days when I can’t so I’ll have to double up on my workouts on certain days.
Participate in Camp NaNoWriMo and write 31,000 words of my novel. This is a big goal, and I hope I can accomplish it! I know I have some quiet weekends ahead of me, so that will be helpful for catching up if I need it. My main goal is to write 1,000 words every day, which is how I came to my number of 31,000 words.
Take an adventure somewhere. Summer is for simple adventures, right? I don’t care what I do… if I’m with my mom, with friends, or by myself… but I want to just get outside and go on a little adventure.
Start the process of re-categorizing and tagging my posts. Oh, this should be a fun job. I have almost 800 posts to go through, so this is going to be a l-o-o-o-o-o-n-g process. But I’ve wanted to do this for a very long time, so I just need to get ‘er done! My goal is to work through 100 of those 800 posts in July.
Add $500 to my emergency fund. As long as I tighten up my spending habits, this is 100% doable.
What goals are you working on in July?
I’m down 10 lbs in 43 days, so my July goals are to continue with what I’m doing (we’ll ignore that I just inhaled a croissant for breakfast) as well as doing that arm challenge I previously mentioned. I’m going to try not to melt given the obscene heat these days. It’s my birthday month, so I’m going to try to just enjoy it otherwise, and as always, try to enjoy my children and family.
Those sound like awesome goals! Especially the taking a random adventure one. I don’t really set too many goals for summer as it tends to be such a busy season so I just like to go with the flow. So far that’s working out well for me 🙂
Good luck with the 31 in 31 goal! I will be striving to do the same this month. I love the challenge as it makes you realize that you DO have time for a workout, even if it’s a 20-30 minute walk or something like that. It does help to double up on workouts a couple of days a week to give yourself some ‘banked’ workouts for future busy weeks or weeks when you want a rest day.
My goal for July is to ramp up my mileage, continue to strength train, and to pay off my grad school loans (!!!!!). The grad school loans thing is a big deal and it means taking some money from savings but I have thought about it and it feels like the smart/right decision.
I know you said you don’t think you’ve been doing that great with your goals this year but lady, look at you still plugging away! Isn’t the entire basis of goal setting to continually push yourself to achieve things? You’re doing that just by setting these goals on a monthly basis! So many things can change from January to December so remember that and be kind to yourself.
My goals for July: start going to bed earlier, stick to my training plan and try to eat intuitively. That last one is going to be a major challenge for me. Why does food have to be so emotional??
In July, I want to start focusing on my half marathon training. This means waking up early before work and getting a 30+ minute run in.
I feel ya on taking an adventure somewhere. It’s been so long since Chris and I took a trip somewhere. Last place we went was Berkeley, which wasn’t that exciting. Hopefully we can both get some adventuring in this month!
Seriously – where has this year gone?!
31 workouts, get at ’em girl!!
Congrats on reaching so many of your goals! I desperately need to update my About page, so I’m inspired that you re-did yours!