March Goals Recap
Small Steps Towards My Yearly Goals
1) Install floating shelves in my kitchen. Complete, and just in the nick of time! My stepdad came over yesterday and hung up a shelf. I wanted to have two shelves, but I quickly realized I could only have one, otherwise the other shelf would have made opening and closing my freezer very difficult.
2) Read Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie. Complete!
3) Watch two seasons of a TV show. Not complete. I watched two episodes of one TV show. So there’s that.
4) Buy the “I’m Dead, Now What?” planner and fill out one section. Half-complete. I bought the planner, but I have not opened the planner.
5) Clean up my categories/tags. Not complete.
Daily(ish) Routines
1) Go for a walk Monday-Friday (three of which should be 30 minutes or more). I was less successful with this goal once my sciatica started to act up because even a 15-minute walk causes my back to hurt.
2) Take my meds daily. Complete-ish. Taking my meds is one of those tasks I do as my morning/evening routine. However, if I skip either of these routines for any reason, it also means I forget to take my meds. No bueno!
3) Do my skincare routine daily. Mostly complete. I don’t do my skincare routine every day of the week, but probably 80-90% of the time and that’s good enough for me.
4) Continue doing 30-minute standing sessions once a day. Another goal that was going well until sciatica. It hurts to stand for too long so I’m not going to worry about this goal until after sciatica treatment is complete.
5) Go to bed by 10:30 p.m. Not complete, ugh.
TASKS
1) Get my tub unclogged and install the TubShroom. Half-complete. The tub was unclogged but the TubShroom remains in its packaging.
2) Declutter my junk closet. Complete! It looks so much better.
Big things: got rid of my vacuum (it was falling apart), moved my broom and mop to the wall, and reorganized the rest of the items differently.
3) Do a big Goodwill drop. Complete!
4) Do my taxes. Complete! In the end, I owed $8 and that was only because TurboTax’s “free” service cost $59 and my tax refund was $51. Not too shabby!
5) Do a week of time logging. Complete! I’m excited to share my results next week.
April Goals
Small Steps Towards My Yearly Goals
1) Hang up 3 more prints for my living room gallery wall. Once these have been added, I think the gallery wall will finally be complete!
2) Start researching rewards credit cards: make a spreadsheet to compare at least 5 cards. One of my goals this year is to switch my credit card to one that offers rewards. Just need to do the research at https://creditrewardperks.com/las-vegas/ to find the one that works best with my lifestyle.
3) Watch two seasons of a TV show. I am currently behind on my goal to watch one season of a TV show every month. In April, I’m once again challenging myself to watch two seasons of a show. I want to finish Mr. and Mrs. Smith and watch Apples Never Fall, which just came out on Hulu. I only have 6 more episodes of Mr. and Mrs. Smith left and ANF has 7 episodes, so it is an ENTIRELY doable goal!
4) Fill out the first section of the “I’m Dead, Now What?” book.
5) Clean up my categories/tags. Rollover goal.
Daily(ish) Routines
1) Daily movement. It can be a 10-minute stretching routine right before bed or a hard workout at the gym, but I need to move my body every day no matter what.
2) Play with the cats for 10 minutes. I want to be better about playing with the cats! I have some fun teaser wands and bought some new toys for them (including catnip bubbles! We’ll see how that goes…), and while I tend to find playing with the cats kind of boring, I know they enjoy it so I need to do it!
3) Do psoriasis treatment every day. I’ve talked about my scalp psoriasis on this blog many times. I’ve started a new regimen from my dermatologist that includes using a prescription-grade shampoo twice a week and treating the dry spots on my scalp nightly with a steroid solution, but I’m not always great at remembering to do those nightly treatments. If I want my psoriasis to go into maintenance, I need to be better about treating it!
4) Take my meds. I really shouldn’t be this bad at taking my meds every day, but alas.
5) Go to bed by 10:30 p.m. A goal that is so very difficult for me, but I’m committed to getting back to a normal bedtime!
TASKS
1) Install the TubShroom. Rollover goal.
2) Declutter my “Deal With It Later” basket. The basket where I just throw all of the things I don’t have time to put in their proper locations is overflowing so it’s time to bring it out of the closet and go through everything in there.
3) Get a new nose piercing. It’s been two months since I got my nose pierced, which means I can graduate to a hoop piercing now! I want to go to the same place where I got the piercing done so they can fit me for a properly sized hoop. Apparently, they are all different sizes because humans have differently sized noses—who knew?!
4) Go to the gym twice a week. I’m not putting pressure on myself to use my gym any more than this! I’m starting small and my mom and I are trying to find two fun classes to take every week. I don’t like taking the same class every week, so we want to switch it up to keep things interesting.
5) Put my bedroom door back on its hinges. I took my bedroom door off its hinges way back in January so my reading chair would fit through the doorway, but I have yet to put it back. I never close my bedroom door so there isn’t a huge need for this, but it’s a task I should do anyway.
What’s a goal on your list for April?