Goals

Last week didn’t go as well as the week before when it came to my goal list. I don’t have an excuse really other than I gave in to watching Dateline with Ruben a few too many times instead of working on my goals, and we’ve begun the process of looking into buying a home and working with a realtor which has taken hours out of our days doing the things that come along with trying to purchase a home.

Here’s a look at how I did:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Come up with a family activity for us to do for our Family Day on Friday. Done. We’ve switched our family days to Tuesday for awhile because our local Chick-fil-A has started offering FREE breakfast on Tuesdays again! So last week we headed to Chick-fil-A on Tuesday morning and then spent some time at the library.

2. Cook with Breanna and Nathan separately for our “cooking day”. Done. Breanna and I made the best sugar cookies, and Nathan and I made mashed potatoes.

Personal Goals:

3. Walk for 40 minutes each day for exercise. Last week, I only tried for 30 minutes each day, but I’m going to try to push myself a bit more this week and walk for 40 minutes each day. Not even close to getting this done. Last week was a bad week for me as far as exercise went. I think I intentionally walked only 2 days. The good news is that I didn’t gain any extra weight. 🙂

4. Finish reading Using WordPress by Tris Hussey (This is a GREAT book if you are new to WordPress, by the way.) and read 4 Chapters from Illustrator CS4 for Dummies, which I didn’t get to last week. Ugh. No real progress here. I’m hoping to get to this goal this week, though, since I don’t have any assignments to work on for the week and no classes!

5. Wake up by 7:15am every morning. Staying up late and watching Dateline did not help me to accomplish this goal. At all. I think I only got up by 7:15am just one day.

Home Management Goals:

6. Find the receiving blankets for the new baby and pack my hospital bag with everything except for the clothes I’ll wear home because I probably don’t know what that will be until the last minute. Done! I ended up finding 5 baby blankets after going through several boxes in the garage, which is a start. I’m still missing a bunch, though.

7. Clean the bathroom and sew buttons and holes on the clothes that need repairing – I’m so bad at letting items that need sewing just sit and wait forever. Done.

Business Goals:

8. Blog for 15 minutes each day. Didn’t get this done, but, hopefully, I will this week.

9. Cancel a subscription I have for graphics. Done.

10. Spend 15 minutes each day focusing on my blog design business, Purely Sensible Design. I also didn’t end up making this a daily priority as I have in the past. I’m back to working on it again.

 

And now for this week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Read all of the library books that we checked out to the kids.

2. Help Nathan and Breanna think through and write out what they are thankful for so that we can share as a family on Thanksgiving.

Personal Goals:

3. Walk for 10-30 minutes each day for exercise. I’m keeping this goal simple for the week because we’ll be busy. I did manage to get in 10 minutes of walking in today, which is a decent start.

4. Finish reading Using WordPress by Tris Hussey (This is a GREAT book if you are new to WordPress, by the way.) and read 4 Chapters from Illustrator CS4 for Dummies, which I didn’t get to last week.

5. Wake up by 7:15am every morning.

Home Management Goals:

6. Organize my desk and remove items that don’t belong there.

7. Make at least one side dish each day leading up to Thanksgiving, and do a big cooking day on Wednesday to finish preparing the dishes that can be made ahead of time.

Business Goals:

8. Blog for 15 minutes each day.

9. Finish an important project I have waiting.

10. Spend 15 minutes each day focusing on my blog design business, Purely Sensible Design.

 I’m hoping for a very productive week! 

This last week was a more productive week than the week before. I was determined to do at least some of my goals on a near daily basis and really push myself to accomplish things on my goal-list for the week instead of doing something less productive with my time…..like watching an episode of Dateline or something.

Here’s how I did:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Come up with a family activity for us to do for our Family Day on Friday. Done. We ended up picking up a couple of cheese pizzas (with a B1G1 free coupon :-)), and we got a free Blockbuster movie rental. We rented Tangled, which at first I wasn’t that excited to sit down and watch, but it ended up being a good pick after all. I really enjoyed it.

2. Cook with Breanna for our “cooking day” and have craft time with her on Monday. Breanna did have her craft time, but I’m saving her cooking time with me until next week instead. We ended up having two birthday parties to attend (with plenty of food) and had an entire leftover pizza plus other leftovers, so I’m pushing our cooking time until next week.

Personal Goals:

3. Walk for 30 minutes each day for exercise. Done! Yay!

4. Finish reading Using WordPress by Tris Hussey (This is a GREAT book if you are new to WordPress, by the way.) and read 4 Chapters from Illustrator CS4 for Dummies, which I didn’t get to last week. Total fail here again. I did get ahead in the “Dummies” book, but not to my goal.

5. Wake up by 7:15am every morning. I’m going to try to push my wake-up time just a little bit earlier. I did this every morning except for Friday since I had gone to bed late the previous night.

Home Management Goals:

6. Clean out the new baby’s changing table which quickly became a place to store random things after Ruben assembled it. We’ve actually never had a changing table before, but we found this one at Target for 75% off! . Done.

7. Go through Breanna’s old baby clothes and take out the ones I want to use for the new baby. Done. Although, I still need to try to find the receiving blankets. I didn’t find a single blanket in any of the things I went through. I was able to set apart some of Breanna’s baby clothes for our new baby girl due next month, plus I now have a whole box of clothes and a bag to donate.

Business Goals:

8. Blog for 15 minutes each day. I blogged every day except for Friday, I believe. Having this goal really helped me to stay on it this week and get those posts written. I think I’m going to keep this as a goal for a while until I make it a regular habit.

9. Finish downloads and cancel a subscription I have for graphics. I finished my downloads, and I’m now free to cancel my subscription.

10. Spend 15 minutes each day improving one thing on my blog design website, Purely Sensible Design. Done. I decided to expand this area to more than just directly improving something on the blog design website. I’m using this time to network, brainstorm ideas to attract new clients, research, and improve other areas of my business as well.

And now here are my goals for the upcoming week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Come up with a family activity for us to do for our Family Day on Friday.

2. Cook with Breanna and Nathan separately for our “cooking day”.

Personal Goals:

3. Walk for 40 minutes each day for exercise. Last week, I only tried for 30 minutes each day, but I’m going to try to push myself a bit more this week and walk for 40 minutes each day.

4. Finish reading Using WordPress by Tris Hussey (This is a GREAT book if you are new to WordPress, by the way.) and read 4 Chapters from Illustrator CS4 for Dummies, which I didn’t get to last week.

5. Wake up by 7:15am every morning.

Home Management Goals:

6. Find the receiving blankets for the new baby and pack my hospital bag with everything except for the clothes I’ll wear home because I probably don’t know what that will be until the last minute.

7. Clean the bathroom and sew buttons and holes on the clothes that need repairing – I’m so bad at letting items that need sewing just sit and wait forever.

Business Goals:

8. Blog for 15 minutes each day.

9. Cancel a subscription I have for graphics.

10. Spend 15 minutes each day focusing on my blog design business, Purely Sensible Design.

What are your goals for the week?

Last week turned out to be a semi-productive week, although I didn’t get everything on my list accomplished. I had a busier school week last week which kept me busier than normal on homework and such and that contributed to my not getting as much done as I wanted to.

Here’s how I did:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Come up with a family activity for us to do for our Family Day on Friday. Done. Because we ended up short on time on Friday due to some other circumstances, we ended up picking up a chicken dinner meal (fully cooked 🙂 for $10) from the grocery store and bringing it home. We then watched a Scooby Doo movie with the kids, but stopped about halfway through for a homemade Kit Kat MckFlurry break. After that, we finished up the Scooby movie, which was pretty good.

2. Finish making fun halloween hand-outs with Breanna and put them in plastic baggies with candy. Also schedule a separate craft time with Breanna this week. Done.

Personal Goals:

3. Walk for 20 minutes every morning this week, and walk for 15 minutes every afternoon/evening. I intentionally walked for exercise about 5 days last week, but I wasn’t able to get it done both morning and afternoon, so I’ll be adjusting this goal for this week.

4. Finish reading Using WordPress by Tris Hussey (This is a GREAT book if you are new to WordPress, by the way.) and read 4 Chapters from Illustrator CS4 for Dummies, which I didn’t get to last week. Totally failed here. I got ahead in both books, but didn’t get anywhere near my goal.

5. Wake up by 7:30am every morning. I was able to wake up around 7:30am almost every day except one.

Home Management Goals:

6. Put the clothes that I’ve decided to keep from when I sorted through them last week into boxes. These are clothes for Isaac and David when they’re older and for the baby. Done. Ruben actually got this done for me. 🙂

7. Go through Breanna’s old baby clothes and take out the ones I want to use for the new baby. I haven’t even started yet.

Business Goals:

8. Get business cards made! Done! Finally! I got a great deal on 100 business cards, and then a nice deal on 50 business cards that are actually shaped like business cards, but they’re stickers. Cool, huh! No, I really needed to get my business cards done for an upcoming “Networking Session” I’ll having in my web site design class.

9. Finish downloads and cancel a subscription I have for graphics. Did not get this done. Didn’t even start – hopefully, I’ll get to it this week.

10. Spend 15 minutes each day improving one thing on my blog design website, Purely Sensible Design. I think I did this 3-4 days last week – not as good as the week before, but I’m going to keep it up.

And now for this week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Come up with a family activity for us to do for our Family Day on Friday.

2. Cook with Breanna for our “cooking day” and have craft time with her on Monday.

Personal Goals:

3. Walk for 30 minutes each day for exercise.

4. Finish reading Using WordPress by Tris Hussey (This is a GREAT book if you are new to WordPress, by the way.) and read 4 Chapters from Illustrator CS4 for Dummies, which I didn’t get to last week.

5. Wake up by 7:15am every morning. I’m going to try to push my wake-up time just a little bit earlier.

Home Management Goals:

6. Clean out the new baby’s changing table which quickly became a place to store random things after Ruben assembled it. We’ve actually never had a changing table before, but we found this one at Target for 75% off!

7. Go through Breanna’s old baby clothes and take out the ones I want to use for the new baby.

Business Goals:

8. Blog for 15 minutes each day.

9. Finish downloads and cancel a subscription I have for graphics.

10. Spend 15 minutes each day improving one thing on my blog design website, Purely Sensible Design.

What are your goals for the week?

First, I’ll start off with a review and how I did with last week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Come up with a family activity for us to do for our Family Day on Friday. (Last week, I got a great deal on a pizza/pop/games package at a local pizza & fun center in our area. Not sure if I can top that this week!) We were going to go to the zoo, but when I started having back pain while walking, too, we decided on plan B. We ended up renting Home Alone 2 from the library and making homemade rootbeer floats. David and Isaac did well with watching the movie, and it kept their attention most of the time. The rootbeer floats were lots of fun, too!

2. Bake with Isaac and David on separate occasions for their “cooking day” with me. I ended up making chocolate chip cookies with Isaac – that were delicious. David and I made breadsticks that turned out just okay, and I threw the recipe in the trash because I know I won’t be using it again.

Personal Goals:

3. Walk for 25 minutes every day this week. I did this intentionally about 4 out of 7 days, so this is something I need to continue to work on.

4. Finish reading One Thousand Gifts by Anne Voskamp and read 4 Chapters from Illustrator CS4 for Dummies. I finished reading One Thousand Gifts, but I only got to Chapter 1 in Illustrator CS4 for Dummies.

5. Wake up by 7:30am every morning. I ended up waking up between 7:30am and 8:00am most days.

Home Management Goals:

6. Go through the piles of old children’s clothing in the garage and figure out what I’m going to sell, donate, and keep. Done.

7. Organize the pantry and remove any expired items. Done.

Business Goals:

8. Get business cards made! I tried to get these done on about 3 occasions but wasn’t able to decide on just what I wanted. I HAVE to get this done this week.

9. Send emails. Done.

10. Spend 15 minutes each day improving one thing on my blog design website, Purely Sensible Design. I did this all but one day, and I must say that it really helped to focus on doing one thing a day for 15 minutes. I’m definitely going to be keeping this up!

 Here are this week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Come up with a family activity for us to do for our Family Day on Friday.

2. Finish making fun halloween hand-outs with Breanna and put them in plastic baggies with candy. Also schedule a separate craft time with Breanna this week.

Personal Goals:

3. Walk for 20 minutes every morning this week, and walk for 15 minutes every afternoon/evening.

4. Finish reading Using WordPress by Tris Hussey (This is a GREAT book if you are new to WordPress, by the way.) and read 4 Chapters from Illustrator CS4 for Dummies, which I didn’t get to last week.

5. Wake up by 7:30am every morning.

Home Management Goals:

6. Put the clothes that I’ve decided to keep from when I sorted through them last week into boxes. These are clothes for Isaac and David when they’re older and for the baby.

7. Go through Breanna’s old baby clothes and take out the ones I want to use for the new baby.

Business Goals:

8. Get business cards made!

9. Finish downloads and cancel a subscription I have for graphics.

10. Spend 15 minutes each day improving one thing on my blog design website, Purely Sensible Design.

What are your goals for the week?