Ah, goal-setting. My favorite thing to think about at the beginning of each month! I just love the process of setting monthly goals and having something to strive for each month, even if it’s something small. I’ve decided to change up my goal-setting starting in July: setting five simple goals and then having three recurring goals. This process felt a lot easier to me and I think I’ll be able to focus on my goals much more easily now. That’s the hope, at least.
In June, I only completed four out of the 10 goals I set, so it’s not my best showing but not my worst. Ya win some, ya lose some!
1) Log 10 Peloton workouts. Complete! I could have logged an 11th workout on Tuesday, but I opted to go for a long walk outside instead. I haven’t hit this goal for the past two months so it feels really good to be back on the Peloton train.
2) Walk 4,000 steps per day (5,000 on workout days). Not complete. I managed this 20 out of 30 days.
3) Drink water every day. Complete! This was an easy goal to complete, mostly because I didn’t force myself into a specific measurement like drinking X amount of ounces per day. Still, I’m proud of myself for drinking water every day, even if it was just a little bit, because there are days (weeks?) I don’t drink any at all. I KNOW.
4) Go on a date. Complete! Wahoo! I went on a wonderful first date this week and we have a second one planned for tonight. <3
5) Eat at least 75% of my meals at home. Complete! I actually ate 83% of my meals at home! What what!
6) Clean my oven. Ugh, no. I just do not have any motivation to get this done, but it really needs to happen.
7) Go to bed at 9pm. Nope, this most definitely did not happen this month. I need to do a better job at turning off the TV/shutting down the laptop at a reasonable hour so I can start my evening routine and be in bed by 9. I didn’t make it a priority this month.
8) Stretch my back every morning. Not complete, ugh. I need to be better about doing my sciatica stretches but I get lazy.
9) Complete one unit of Google Analytics. Lol, no. This isn’t getting done until my workload dramatically decreases.
10) Take my car in for a checkup. After thinking about this goal, I ultimately decided there isn’t a point in seeing if my car needs any repairs. For one, it’s running fine and for another, I’m definitely not putting any money into a 16-year-old car so why do I need to find out if it needs any repairs? So, not complete.
July Goals
1) Drink one soda per day. Soda is forever and always my #1 vice. One soda per day is very reasonable and it helps me sleep better at night, too, so that’s a win/win.
2) Clean my oven. Rollover goal. Will I ever get this done? Time will tell.
3) Eat at least 90% of my meals at home. I did so well with my restaurant goal last month that I decided to up the ante. I want to get my food budget under $500 (to accommodate the rise in rent starting in September) and that means developing a habit of eating more meals at home.
4) Renew my passport. My passport has been expired since March, but I haven’t been too worried about renewing it with COVID and all of that. But I need to get this taken care of anyway and it’s an easy thing to accomplish!
5) Sketch out my tattoo design and make a plan for getting it done. I am not an artist by any stretch of the imagination, but I have a very specific idea for my tattoo that I need to get on paper. It’s too hard to describe! I’m hoping to give a rough idea to my tattoo artist and they can take that terrible drawing and make it what I want it to be. I also want to set the tattoo appointment because, otherwise, I’m just going to let this idea lag on and on, and I’m so ready to get it done.
Recurring monthly goals:
1) Log 10 Peloton workouts/work out 3 times per week.
2) Walk 4,000-5,000 steps daily.
3) Go to bed at 9pm Sunday-Thursday.
What’s a nagging task that you need to take care of? (Mine is definitely that damn oven.) Let’s encourage each other to get it done this month!
First of all, June sounds like a rollicking success!!! Great work!!! And I love that you have rollover goals. That just makes good sense.
I have two phone calls I have been putting off that I just need to make, so I will try to do at least one of them today!
The goals you did accomplish in June were a really big deal, though. Like all the eating at home! I know that is a challenge for you and you rocked that goal!
I have a pretty low bar for goals these days so I pretty much only set recurring ones: culling photos from past months (so I’ll do July 2013-2020 this month), cull the previous month photos and log 3 workouts/week. But this month my goal is 3 non-walking workouts. Walks are still a great workout but I wanted to challenge myself to do a run or strength training workout 3 times/week which is totally doable. I also need to work on the May and June pages for my 2022 photo book (I work on it throughout the year to make it less overwhelming).
And yay for going on a date and having a 2nd one lined up!!!!
Well done! Some really big wins for June! Selling our old Buick is the eterni-goal of mine, ugh…I HATE selling cars, mostly just because it takes me forever to even find our car’s title, lol.
Nice job on those goals!!! I have been meaning to put a bunch of old cameras – some have film! – on my neighbourhood “buy nothing” page, and it would literally take five minutes to do that, and yet I have not done that. I think it was my goal at the beginning of the pandemic! I hear you on the oven. Every time I clean my oven I think “if I did this more often, it would not be such a pain” and then I wait another two years to clean it.
You might not have completed all the goals in June, but the ones that you did were big ones. So awesome you completed 10 Peloton workouts (woot!) and so exciting to hear you’re going on a second date. <3
You checked off some really important things in June. I’m particularly impressed by your eating at home achievement (you mentioned that was tough for you), as well as drinking water. I also like that you made a decision about your car (no need to keep a goal that you do not need to achieve!). And, I’m reading this late so hope the second date had a good outcome. A promising first date is the necessary first step, though! 🙂