A few days after writing out my October goals, I thought I was being a bit lofty in my ambitions. But now, 9 days in, I'm feeling pretty good about it. I've done better than I thought I would. I realized that most of my goals, even though I've broken them down into lots of categories below, fit into 2 bigger categories. The obvious one is health, the fitness and health goals are to help me get back to a healthy weight. And stop me from gaining anymore weight.
The second grouping is organization, in a broad sense. I want my life to feel more organized. I don't want to feel like I'm always rushing to get somewhere (like work) or like I have so much on my to do list that it's paralyzing. With that also goes all of the storage/cleaning goals - if my environment is organized, I'll feel more organized. Which will lead to a better feeling overall. At lease I certainly hope so. If it doesn't, at least my to do list will be significantly smaller.
Work
1. get to work on time 2x per week (My work is really flexible - if I show up late, I stay late. But I just got promoted, so I'm trying to break my bad habit of being late all the time. This goal is going to reoccur each month, until I'm getting there on time more often than not)
Fitness
2. be active at least 3x per week (Working on this - I'm already regularly active once a week, I'm trying to increase that to be healthier, and help me on my overall goal of losing weight and inches)
Health
3. book juice cleanse
4. figure out a healthy calorie consumption level for losing weight DONE
5. start tracking calories and eating healthier DONE
(I joined www.sparkpeople.com, once you put in your weight loss goal and timeframe, the site calculates a healthy daily calorie range for you, and there is a feature that allows you to track your meals. There's also a lot more to the site too! So far I've been doing fairly well at keeping within the calorie ranges. I exceeded on Thanksgiving, but I was expecting that and compensate by eating healthy earlier that day. I'm still struggling with getting enough protein, but since the site also tells me whether I've met my protein goals for the day, I think I'll be able to get a bit better.)
Personal
6. make plans with 2 friends I haven't seen in a long time (Done one, working on the second)
7. book laser appointment again
8. find a vet, and take cat to vet for checkup
Condo
9. move more stuff to storage locker, get rid of stuff in storage locker (Done second half of goal)
10. get roommate to deal with some stuff in the hallway (DONE)
11. start going through jewellery (DONE - I spent a good chunk of this weekend cleaning and organizing my jewellery, as well as purging a fair bit of it. It all looks so great now, I can't wait to wear it. There was so much jewelery I was forgetting about)
Craft
12. finish green tiger blanket (Almost - need to finish binding the sides. I'm still deciding between doing it by hand and making it look pretty, or doing it with the sewing machine and sacrificing looks for sturdiness. I'm leaning towards hand sewing right now, and might try to do this tomorrow night or on the weekend. I'm so close I just want to finish it!)
13. start working on red sweater (not until green blanket is done)
14. figure out pattern for frog pillow (not until green blanket is done)
Financial
15. make RRSP appointment
16. figure out a new budget
Next post I'll take out the goals I finished for this one, and so on for each post, until there are no goals left! Now I have to get on the remaining goals. Otherwise, my list won't get smaller.
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