Goals

I’m not sure what I was thinking when I thought I could continue to film, edit, and upload videos without much change in frequency even though my laptop is dead.

Seriously. I should’ve thought about the fact my husband’s computer isn’t mobile. It stays put, and it can’t travel with me from room to room so that I can work on editing videos around whatever the kids are doing. I also should’ve remembered that Ruben likes to use his computer after the kids go to bed, so trying to edit videos at that time doesn’t make sense anymore.

Soooooo…because my laptop won’t be fixed until next month, I’m going to be realistic about my YouTube goals. 🙂

Here’s what I accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family

2. Read to my children 5x

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 100 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 10 pages of The Lord of the Rings (Part One) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien — I’ve been using the Habit Streak Pro app to remind myself to read a little each day, and because of that, I’ve been consistently reading more than 10 pages per week, which means I could actually finish this book before the end of the year! 😉

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Sew a few things in our home that need it — I sewed one pair of pants, but I didn’t get to everything.

8. Wash my makeup brushes

Business Goals:

9. Shoot, edit, & upload three videos to our family YouTube channel — By the end of the week, we had our three videos, but I wasn’t able to edit and upload them all.

10. Shoot, edit, & upload two family vlogs — I filmed two vlogs, but I didn’t get them edited and uploaded.

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family

2. Read to my children 5x

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 100 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 10 pages of The Lord of the Rings (Part One) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Finish sewing things in our home that need it

8. Fill one bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Shoot, edit, & upload one new video to our family YouTube channel — I’m going to keep this goal super simple until my laptop gets fixed.

10. Shoot, edit, & upload one family vlog — While I’m going to work at getting two vlogs filmed every week, for now, my goal will only be to get one vlog up on my channel. If I end up getting both vlogs up on YouTube, that’ll be a bonus!

What are your goals for this week?

Well, my computer died.

And while that definitely messed with my productivity when it came to editing and uploading videos, I was still able to cross off most of my goals. 🙂

Here’s what I accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family

2. Read to my children 5x

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 100 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 10 pages of The Lord of the Rings (Part One) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Sew a few things in our home that need it

8. Clean out and organize Isaac’s and David’s homeschool drawers

Business Goals:

9. Shoot, edit, & upload three videos to our family YouTube channel

10. Shoot, edit, & upload two family vlogs

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family

2. Read to my children 5x

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 100 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 10 pages of The Lord of the Rings (Part One) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Sew a few things in our home that need it

8. Wash my makeup brushes

Business Goals:

9. Shoot, edit, & upload three videos to our family YouTube channel — I’m using my husband’s computer until we can (hopefully!) get mine fixed next month.

10. Shoot, edit, & upload two family vlogs

What are your goals for this week?

So right now my kids are playing with water balloons in the house. 🙂

I gave them each two balloons and a towel and told them to play and see how long they can make them last before they pop. All this because we have neighbors who like to let their dog run loose outside. It seems we can’t escape these types of neighbors.

Oh well!

On the plus side, the kids are having a lot of fun, they’re using their imaginations, and I crossed off all my goals for last week.

Here’s what I accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family

2. Read to my children 5x

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 100 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 10 pages of The Lord of the Rings (Part One) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Research and create a list of new curriculum I’d like to order

8. Order journals for the upcoming school year

Business Goals:

9. Shoot, edit, & upload four videos to our family YouTube channel 

10. Create a backup of my blog

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family

2. Read to my children 5x

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 100 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 10 pages of The Lord of the Rings (Part One) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Sew a few things in our home that need it

8. Clean out and organize Isaac’s and David’s homeschool drawers

Business Goals:

9. Shoot, edit, & upload three videos to our family YouTube channel 

10. Shoot, edit, & upload two family vlogs

What are your goals for this week?

I hope you had a great weekend.

We spent lots of time together as a family and did a few fun activities together. It was all very memorable, and I don’t think our kids will ever forget “the year the neighbors set off fireworks in just about every direction.”

They set off tons of fireworks last year, too.

But this year?

I think they all went and got permits ( 😉 ), because we didn’t even have to leave the house to see a fantastic show!

As for my goals, I didn’t meet my treadmill and vlogging goals, and I’m actually going to cut back or cut those out for this week.

Here’s what I accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family

2. Read to my children 5x

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 150 minutes on the treadmill — I spent around 100 minutes on the treadmill, but we went outside and walked more as a family. I’m going to decrease this goal for now, because we’ll be spending more time outside.

5. Read 10 pages of The Lord of the Rings (Part One) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Clean and organize my desk

8. Spend 30 minutes looking into curriculum and planning for the upcoming school year

Business Goals:

9. Shoot, edit, & upload three videos to our family YouTube channel — I got this done plus we created and filmed another Play-Doh surprise egg. This time it was a Minions surprise egg! 🙂

10. Shoot, edit, & upload two family vlogs — I decided to put vlogging on hold for another week or so, because I want to spend extra time working on our family YouTube channel.

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family

2. Read to my children 5x

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 100 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 10 pages of The Lord of the Rings (Part One) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Research and create a list of new curriculum I’d like to order

8. Order journals for the upcoming school year

Business Goals:

9. Shoot, edit, & upload four videos to our family YouTube channel 

10. Create a backup of my blog

What are your goals for this week?