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Annual goals
Jan. 15th, 2014 06:22 pmAt the beginning of last year, I said that in 2013:
Goals for this year are to increase the amount of exercise done, and aim to do something significant along those lines daily; to put an hour in for work and/or study at home every day; to blog daily - possibly twice, one being the quotidian events, and one being something else instead; and to keep working on getting the house sorted
The first of these I managed well - taking up ice-skating Lots helped, and there were points of the year when artisanat and I were going for semi-regular walks. Wearing the pedometer helped, and I should go back to that.
The second and third, not so much. I have managed to keep some track of events, but I'm never going to be a champion diarist, and I'm choosing not to beat myself up about this - some days are too busy, and some days I really do need to just ignore the Internet. And I wasn't happy with the amount of study time I was allocating through term, to the point that I don't *really* feel confident about my understanding of the topics I covered last year. And since term finished, I haven't been thinking about it. Will have to think about a way to motivate myself.
The fourth I'm pretty happy with as well. There have been times when the whole house feels like a disaster zone, and others wherever there are multiple areas clear. We've decluttered stuff, although I haven't kept track of this as much as I would have liked (freecycle emails would help with that!). And I've thrown quite a bit of time at craft projects that are decreasing the amount of Stuff as well, so I'm happy there (now to stop buying fabric. And yarn. And bits for projects I dream of having time to work on).
But what about 2014?
Goals
Goals for this year are to increase the amount of exercise done, and aim to do something significant along those lines daily; to put an hour in for work and/or study at home every day; to blog daily - possibly twice, one being the quotidian events, and one being something else instead; and to keep working on getting the house sorted
The first of these I managed well - taking up ice-skating Lots helped, and there were points of the year when artisanat and I were going for semi-regular walks. Wearing the pedometer helped, and I should go back to that.
The second and third, not so much. I have managed to keep some track of events, but I'm never going to be a champion diarist, and I'm choosing not to beat myself up about this - some days are too busy, and some days I really do need to just ignore the Internet. And I wasn't happy with the amount of study time I was allocating through term, to the point that I don't *really* feel confident about my understanding of the topics I covered last year. And since term finished, I haven't been thinking about it. Will have to think about a way to motivate myself.
The fourth I'm pretty happy with as well. There have been times when the whole house feels like a disaster zone, and others wherever there are multiple areas clear. We've decluttered stuff, although I haven't kept track of this as much as I would have liked (freecycle emails would help with that!). And I've thrown quite a bit of time at craft projects that are decreasing the amount of Stuff as well, so I'm happy there (now to stop buying fabric. And yarn. And bits for projects I dream of having time to work on).
But what about 2014?
Goals
- pass two more units for degree
- finish three crochet baby blankets and three baby quilts for specific recipients (one is nearly done, four are started)
- finish the Tivolettes costume photos
- keep cycling and ice-skating, increase fitness. Hope is that I can improve lungs enough to talk to doctor about not needing asthma pventer
- deal with items in boxes, so that we end up with all the public areas of the house clear
- deal with some of the papers languishing on my publications list
- read all the way through one of the teetering mounds of books in the bedroom, and record in goodreads. Low hanging fruit goal - 50 books. Optimistic goal - 100 books. Stretch goal - 150 books (novels, anthologies/collections, and non-fiction read all the way through.)
- get the sewing/repairs basket down to the pile in the back hall
- pick a set of music (piano, recorder, viola, voice, flute, guitar) and learn it
- make the garden prettier, and grow and harvest some veggies.
