Goals

I was able to fully complete 7 of my 10 goals for last week.

And while that’s not bad, I still made the decision to re-evaluate my goals and be more realistic about what I can get done each week.

After thinking things over, I came to the conclusion that my blog redesign needs to wait. Instead, I’m going to use that time to create videos for my YouTube channel, which is something that I definitely want to be doing right now. 🙂

Here’s what I accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

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

2. Plan a fun family day

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 190 minutes on the treadmill — I’m increasing this goal. The main reason that I can go up again in how much time I plan to spend on the treadmill is that I’m using the My Fitness Pal app to track my food intake & exercise. The app has been a highly motivating tool that I’ve been utilizing for a little over a month now, and I love it!

5. Read 20 pages of The Lord of the Rings (Part One) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien — I read 11 pages.

6. Journal 2x — I journaled once.

Home Management Goals:

7. Unpack one old, worn out box of ‘stuff’ in the basement and place stuff in a new box

8. Fill one bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Shoot & upload a video on how to make peppermint sugar scrub — I’m hoping to start posting weekly on my personal YouTube channel. It’s been months since I’ve uploaded a video there, but now that we have a working system in place for filming videos on our family YouTube channel, I feel like I can stop making excuses and start uploading to my own channel again.

10. Spend 1 hour on my blog redesign — I’ve decided to put this project on hold for now.

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

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

2. Plan a fun family day

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 200 minutes on the treadmill — I’m increasing this goal by 10 minutes.

5. Read 20 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. Unpack one old, worn out box of ‘stuff’ in the basement and place stuff in a new box

8. Fill one bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Shoot, edit & upload a video on how to make a honey sugar facial scrub — I’m starting to post weekly on my personal YouTube channel.

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

What are your goals for this week?

I decided not to post new goals last week.

The main reason being is that I needed a break from a few of my regular goals, and I wanted to go through my schedule/calendar and look for things I could cut back on or cut out to make more time to create, edit & schedule videos for our new YouTube channel. Basically, I wanted to find ways to work on our videos during more “normal” hours. 😉

I’d been editing and uploading the majority of our videos after the kids went to bed, and that resulted in late, late nights for me.

I’m so over that now. And I feel like I’ve reworked my schedule enough that I should be able to get to bed somewhere between 11:00PM and midnight each night.

I can live with that.

Here’s what I accomplished two weeks ago:

Family/Mothering Goals:

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

2. Plan a fun family day

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 160 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 20 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. Unpack one old, worn out box of ‘stuff’ in the basement and place stuff in a new box

8. De-clutter the area under my desk

Business Goals:

9. Edit outro for new YouTube channel videos

10. Spend 1 hour on my blog redesign

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

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

2. Plan a fun family day

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 190 minutes on the treadmill — I’m increasing this goal. The main reason that I can go up again in how much time I plan to spend on the treadmill is that I’m using the My Fitness Pal app to track my food intake & exercise. The app has been a highly motivating tool that I’ve been utilizing for a little over a month now, and I love it!

5. Read 20 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. Unpack one old, worn out box of ‘stuff’ in the basement and place stuff in a new box

8. Fill one bag with items to donate

Business Goals:

9. Shoot & upload a video on how to make peppermint sugar scrub — I’m hoping to start posting weekly on my personal YouTube channel. It’s been months since I’ve uploaded a video there, but now that we have a working system in place for filming videos on our family YouTube channel, I feel like I can stop making excuses and start uploading to my own channel again. 😉

10. Spend 1 hour on my blog redesign

What are your goals for this week?

Last week was mostly productive.

I feel like I got a lot done because I scheduled it and then actually did the work. 🙂

Here’s what I accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Continue to work on memorizing two verses of scripture as a family — We didn’t all practice the verses.

2. Plan a fun family day

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 140 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 20 pages of The Lord of the Rings (Part One) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien — This is a long book with small print, so it’s going to take me a while to read through it. However, I love the story and know that it’ll be worth it.

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Unpack one old, worn out box of pictures in the basement and place them in a new box

8. Scrub & clean the kitchen sink

Business Goals:

9. Work on YouTube channel header — You can see our updated header here.

10. Spend 1 hour on my blog redesign — I only ended up working on this for about 15 minutes. Instead, we spent a lot of time filming an intro & outro for our new YouTube channel, which ate up a lot of time. We even experimented with a green screen and wearing green “gloves” but things didn’t quite turn out like we’d hoped. Oh well! We’ve been learning a lot more about creating & editing videos, and things can only get better from here. 😉

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

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

2. Plan a fun family day

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 160 minutes on the treadmill — I’m increasing this goal by 20 minutes.

5. Read 20 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. Unpack one old, worn out box of ‘stuff’ in the basement and place stuff in a new box

8. De-clutter the area under my desk

Business Goals:

9. Edit outro for new YouTube channel videos

10. Spend 1 hour on my blog redesign

What are your goals for this week?

I crossed everything off of my list of goals for last week.

The small way I’ve ‘found’ more time in my days is to be disciplined about when I hop on Facebook. I try only to check it once or twice early in day and then again after the kids go to bed.

Honestly, by checking it less often, I’ve found that I don’t miss much. I think, instead, I end up heading down fewer rabbit trails during the day, which means I have more time for my to-do list. 😉

Here’s what I accomplished last week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

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

2. Plan a fun family day

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 140 minutes on the treadmill

5. Finish reading The Most Important Place on Earth (affiliate link) by Robert Wolgemuth — I’m excited to be finishing up this book, but I do think I’ll read it over again in the future. My favorite takeaway from last week’s reading: Treat your words with care. 

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Spend 30 minutes cleaning/organizing the basement — This has become a fun activity to do with the kids over the weekend.

8. Sew items in our home that need it

Business Goals:

9. Create custom thumbnails for two YouTube videos & update the description box of two videos

10. Spend 1 hour on my blog redesign

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

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

2. Plan a fun family day

Personal Goals:

3. Do resistance band exercises 4x

4. Walk a total of 140 minutes on the treadmill

5. Read 20 pages of The Lord of the Rings (Part One) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien — This is a long book with small print, so it’s going to take me a while to read through it. However, I love the story and know that it’ll be worth it. 🙂

6. Journal 2x

Home Management Goals:

7. Unpack one old, worn out box of pictures in the basement and place them in a new box

8. Scrub & clean the kitchen sink

Business Goals:

9. Work on YouTube channel header

10. Spend 1 hour on my blog redesign

What are your goals for this week?