June Goals
1) Schedule an appointment with a cardiologist. Complete! I had my first appointment on June 19th, which did not go as planned, but all is well now. I really like my cardiologist and feel confident in the diagnostic path ahead.
2) Create my organization spreadsheet. Half-complete. I didn’t realize what a big job this would be! I spent a little time in June going through my different organizational systems in my home, but didn’t quite finish the project.
3) Move my body every day. LOL, no. I only managed 13 out of 30 days of intentional movement. This is better than May (9 days) but worse than April (15 days). I miss having a regular workout routine.
4) Go to my apartment pool twice. Nope! However, I did enjoy a lot of pool time during book club weekend. Does that count?
5) Figure out my 401k situation. Somewhat?? Forward progress was made, at least. The next thing I need to do is mail the check my old 401k company sent me to my new 401k company (which feels like a really wild way to do things, but here we are), and pray everything goes to plan.
July Goals
1) Finish my organization spreadsheet. Rollover goal.
2) Figure out a workout routine. What I need is to figure out exactly what I’m going to do (and when I’m going to do it), rather than winging it, which is how I’ve been approaching exercise the past few months. Every day needs to have a specific routine, whether that’s going for a walk, riding the bike at my gym, or stretching, and a specific time I’m going to do it.
3) No caffeine after 3 p.m. I sleep so much better when I limit my caffeine intake, and these days, my sleep has been wretched. I think some of that has to do with long-term steroid use, but I also figure it can’t hurt to cut down on caffeine and see if that improves my sleep.
4) Start wearing my Apple Watch again. I’m planning on doing a full review of my Oura ring after I’ve been wearing it for three months. The short version is that I really love it, but I think I want to pair it with my Apple Watch for activity monitoring. The Oura does a lot of things well (the sleep data is great!), but a part of me is missing the real-time stats that come with the Apple Watch. This is an experiment, as I may end up hating the fact that I have two different devices measuring everything going on in my body.
5) Figure out my 401k situation FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING HOLY. Rollover goal.
Do you have any goals for July?
Girl, if you have the check from the old 401k company, you are 90% there! GET THAT CHECK IN THE MAIL ASAP!!!!! Then it will be on someone else’s to-do list and not yours. What you said about the companies sending paper checks in this day and age…it’s unbelievable but it’s true.
The check is in the mail! Now we just hope I did everything right. I’m like 85% sure I’m going to have to redo everything, but that’s the pessimist in me.
Ugh. Caffeine. I’m sure I’ve told you before that I cut out caffeine because a doctor said it would help with my chronic headaches and it has not, but I can’t bring caffeine back in because whenever I go to the doctor about the headaches, it’s the first thing they ask about. I miss Diet Coke with a passion. Some people say they stop craving it after you go without it for awhile. Those people are lying.
My goals for July: Finish a journal project I’m working on for 2021, clean up the photo gallery on my phone, text one friend a day (stolen from you, but not two friends a day because that seems CRAZYPANTS), repot my office plants, and do a photo a day project. That all seems ambitious.
But you and I are goal people. We can do this, right?
I brought my texting goal from two friends to one friend because yes, it was crazypants! Hahaha.
I have cut out soda from my life many times, and the craving NEVER GOES AWAY. I also don’t lose the massive amount of weight I’m told would happen. Liars, all of them!
My friend from Japan is coming tomorrow and staying for a week, and I can’t wait! And I know that after she leaves, it’ll be a huge letdown and I’ll be bummed!
So my main goals will be to stay cool and distract myself with books and crafty projects.
Aww! I’m glad you have a game plan for how to soothe yourself once your friend is gone. It’s so hard when something we look forward to and plan so much is all over!
Oh, that’s what this month is missing- goals. Maybe I should start thinking about that! Your goals are good- I think you’re right to set up a workout routine. Winging it never works out well.
Winging it has been the WRONG plan for me, that’s for sure!
Pool time always counts!
I have all my caffeine in the early morning and then none the rest of the day. An afternoon coffee would kill me!
I have, as usual, no real goals. But there is lots going on in July – garden, friends, etc. – so all is good!
I’ve been known to drink coffee in the evening and sleep just fine! But I think those days MIGHT be behind me, wah.
Anything I need to mail anything serious like that I am also like… are you sure? We trust the USPS? 😂
How have the first 5 days been with figuring out a workout routine? Have you seen any patterns you think will work? Kinda hard to figure out when a lot of those days are off work.
My goal for the month has been to limit my social media time to the timers on my phone and so far, so good!
I…. did not start my workout routine until this week lol. I needed the weekend to get my bearings, especially since it was a holiday weekend!
Yay for the timers working! I have a 15-minute timer set up for IG and I’m pretty good at staying away from the app once my time is up. I’m less good about doing that with all my games, sigh.
I wear my Apple watch and Oura ring. I rely more on my Oura ring for data about sleep/readiness/etc, but I need my Apple watch for its alarm feature, timers (essential when you have small kids, I am always setting timers!), text notifications, etc etc.
The 401k roll-over process is quite weird. But I think my roll-overs have all been done via check. It’s wild.
I really don’t like the way the watch buzzes me with notifications so I turned off ALL notifications, aside from anything related to workouts/activity. I think that will help!
The 401k process is WILD.