March Goals

It’s the beginning of the month, which means it’s time for a goals update. I’ll admit that February wasn’t a great month for goals, as I only achieved half of what I set out to do. Womp! But February always seems to be a rather lackluster month, at least for me, so this isn’t entirely surprising. It just means I can come back with a bang in March, right? Right. Let’s review:

1) Eat one serving of fruit every day. Nope. I was remarkably bad at this goal! I really need to get my act together about eating fruits and veggies on a daily basis.

2) Write 12,000 words in my novel. Nope. I wrote maybe 2,000 words and then I hit a major roadblock in my story. I’m nearing the end of the novel so I really need to figure out how I want things to end. I started to write a scene that causes my characters to break up (called the “dark moment”) but it felt so inauthentic and I didn’t want to write myself into a hole. So I decided to spend February brainstorming about my novel rather than writing so I can come back to it in March with fresh eyes. (Time will tell if this strategy worked.)

3) Work out 14 times. Nope. I worked out just 10 times in February so now I’m behind on my goal of working out 150 times this year by four workouts.

4) Read The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver. Yes! Finally, something I can mark as complete! I read this book to fulfill the February category for the Unread Shelf Challenge, gifted to you. I loved this book immensely and am so glad I read it!

5) Participate in a mud run. Complete! It was a highlight of my year so far. So much fun!

6) Order Warby Parker try-ons. Complete! I ordered them towards the end of the month and had such a fun time trying them on and modeling them for people.

7) Schedule vet check-ups for the girls. Complete! Scheduled and done. Ellie only needed a wellness check and Lila had to get two shots, poor thing. But I’m glad that’s over and done with for the year!

8) Develop a nighttime routine. Not complete. As I sit here typing up this post at 10pm, yeah, the whole “developing a nighttime routine” isn’t going so well for me.

9) Cancel checking plus. Not complete. This is such an easy task! Why can’t I get it done?!

10) Switch over my files. Complete! Yay! 2019 files have been moved over to my big filing bin and I also organized that bin, getting rid of a lot of stuff I had been keeping (like school transcripts and some online courses I had done in my early-to-mid twenties).

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March Goals

1) Don’t eat fast food. I eat fast food a couple of times a month, which is a bad habit I really need to break. It’s just so easy to whip through the drive-thru on a Friday afternoon—it’s become a little “treat.” So my healthy challenge for March is going to be to stop eating fast food (and hopefully, it’s a habit I can keep up well after the month is over!)

2) Work on my novel for 30 minutes every day. Rather than a word count goal this month, I’m setting an easy time goal. And this can be anything from brainstorming or outlining to writing. A very doable goal!

3) Work out 17 times. I’m behind on my goal of logging 150 workouts this year. To get back on track, I need to log 17 workouts this month. Fingers crossed I can make it happen!

4) Read Every Wild Heart by Meg Donohue. March’s challenge for the Unread Shelf Challenge is to read the book that’s been on your unread shelf the longest, which is this book. I won it in an Instagram giveaway years ago and haven’t ever felt compelled to pick it up. It has a 3.37 rating on Goodreads so I don’t have high hopes for this one, unfortunately.

5) Go kayaking. This is my “try something new” goal for March, and one I know for sure will get checked off as I’m planning an outdoorsy weekend with a group of friends this month. We’re going to go to a natural spring to go kayaking and paddleboarding, and since it’s a 3.5-hour drive from where we live, we’re going to make a weekend out of it. I’m both looking forward to it and having lots of anxiety about it because, ya know, that’s how social anxiety works!

6) Order new glasses. I am still debating between three separate pairs, but since Warby Parker glasses are so inexpensive (compared to Visionworks and the like—my last pair of glasses was around $400), I may go crazy and buy two pairs.

7) Buy a desk. A few weeks ago, I decided that I really want a desk and I haven’t been able to get the idea out of my head. I’m imagining having a space to work that’s not my kitchen island and a place to organize mail and important documents. I’m thinking something really simple.

8) Sell my cat carriers. Now that I have a new and improved cat carrier, I want to sell the bulky kennels I bought before I got the girls. They should be pretty easy to sell, I’m thinking, and it will be nice to have more room in my outside storage closet!

9) Cancel checking plus. Back on the list it goes. Maybe the third time is the charm?

10) Wash and vacuum my car. Is anyone else ridiculously bad about vacuuming their car until it absolutely needs it? Oof. This month, my car needs a little extra love at the car wash.

What’s something you want to accomplish this month?