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After much thought, I have decided that I am going on a blog vacation. I am not sure how long this vacation will be, but know I will be back in a bit. I will be gathering inspiration, taking photos and documenting my time away so that when I come back, I will have lots to share with you. I may stop in from time to time to share a photo or two.
xoxo,
Vivs
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January was a CRAZY month for me--I had something to do every single day. Most of it was fun stuff, but I think I want a little more low key month for February.
One of the biggest goals that I accomplished was leaving 200 comments on other blogs. I really enjoyed the process and it always makes me feel good when I give some one a complement.
You can see January goals here.
In February I will FOCUS on...
Cleaning and organizing my room- I have been living out of boxes since last October because I don't have room in my bedroom for things. I want to take this month and go through all my stuff and get rid of anything I will no longer use or wear.
Make more time for myself- I want to keep my schedule open and take things day by day. I have always been the kind of person that needs to know what I am doing and what time I need to be somewhere. I start to stress out if I don't know what is going on. I want to take this month and learn to let go of my time and live by the moment.
Take 200 photos- I love setting goal like this for myself because it adds a little bit of fun each day and month. I want to get to know my camera better and really learn to take a GREAT photos. I will be blogging about a new project that I am working on later this week that has to do with my camera. oh- when I say take 200 photos I mean, 200 good photos. I want to be able to have them all printed at the end of the month.
Project Life-- I have already started this project, but have not blogged about it and I will next week. I want to continue to document this year and take the time each week to work on Project LIfe. This is another reason why I want to take more photos.
Make a vision board for this year.
What are your goal for this month?
I have not posted a to-do-list in awhile and since mine is really long, I thought I would share some of it with you today.
1. Go through boxes that I still have not unpacked and get rid of anything that I do not use. I still have a few boxes from my move back in October 2011.
2. Order photos
3. Finish knitting the Bedford sweater. I put it down for a few weeks, but I am about 85% done. I think I can finish it this week if I knit every day.
4. Finish updating a few pages on the blog
5. Make a new workout playlist
6. Clean up email and Calendar
7. Take photos of my art journal
8. Give Penny (my bike) a bath and take photos of her for the blog
9. Make a project list for Feb
10. Write out my goals for Feb
11. Paint my nails
12. Take photos of my Project Life
13. Go through yarn and start selling some of it that I do not want
14. Go to the market and buy food for the week
15. Send out Holiday thank you cards. I am so late on this :(
This is about half of what I would like to get done this week. What is on your to-do-list?
If you read my January Goals then you know that one of my goals this month was to leave 200 comments on blogs that I love. I have a bad habit of NOT leaving my Google Reader and just browsing through all the blogs posts in less them 10 minutes. Meaning... I was not reading the whole post and sometimes I was just looking at the photos.
One day I was sitting here getting upset at how low my blog stats were getting and then it hit me. Why would anyone want to take the time to come read my blog and leave a comment, if I was not doing the same for them. Does that make since? I was not taking the time to click out of Google Reader to view the post in its entirety and leave a thoughtful comment.
For the Past 30 (31) days I have been clicking outside Google Reader and visiting all the blogs I love. Here are a few things that I learned about commenting on other peoples blogs
1. I love leaving comments on blogs
2. By leaving comments, other bloggers were leaving comments on my blog
3. My stats have gone up a ton
4. Finding new blogs from other bloggers and comments
5. Seeing all the beautiful blogs out there and their designs
6. Feeling more connected
7. Enjoying my morning blog reading time. I look forward to it everyday
8. I don't really love Google Reader
9. Learning how to be a better blog friend
I loved this goal and I will continue to take the time to leave comments on other blogs. There was something so fulling about this goal and seeing it all the way through.
