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2015 Goals

This year I want to keep it simple. I don't want a long list of goals that I'll have to feel bad about at the end of the year if don't accomplish them all. I want goals that will lift me up and make me feel good at the end of the day. 

My (simple) goals for 2015: 

Live Healthy: I want to be more active and only eat things that will nourish my body. I am tired of feeling "blah" and unmotivated to do things. 

Love Wholeheartedly: Just what it says -- "Love Wholeheartedly" -- myself and everything around me. 

Create Daily: I felt like my creativeness died last year and I want to get it back. I want to make sure that I am being creative everyday in some small form. I have always been a creative person and I need this in my life. 

Shake Things Up: I want to do stuff that I would not normally do. I want to shake things up even if it means singing in the shower as loud as I can. Ha! 

Cheers to reaching your goals in 2015! 

October 2014 Goals

To sit here and think that my Baby Boy is going to be turning one year old this month is mind-blowing. I can’t even believe how fast this year has gone by, and this has led me to take everything as it comes, which is usually easiest when I take things one month at a time. Like many new parents, we celebrate the Baby’s birthdate monthly, so a month-to-month timeframe just makes sense for us right now...

In my post last week I talked about how I was starting to feel like my monthly goals were all starting to sound the same. While this remains true, I still feel like I need some kind of list of goals to go by because I am a list person through and through. That being said, I would much rather consider the things I would like to accomplish as a set of “monthly goals” instead of having a laundry list of “things to do." 

We have a busy month ahead of us with celebrating and traveling, but I still want to be creative and get a few projects done. My monthly goals for October are to finish one project each weekend. Here is a list of the projects that I would like to finish this month:

• Catch up on Project Life (23 weeks behind) 
• Refinish our bar cart 
• Finish knitting the sweater I am working on 
• Start a winter balcony garden

Happiness Goals

I have always been a goal setter, but lately I have not been setting goals as much because they all start to sound the same and it felt like a chore. So, I started to think about what really makes me happy and how I wanted to add more happiness to my daily life and decided that this would be my newest goal... my Happiness Goal.

My Happiness Goals for Mid-September: 

• Put make-up on every morning (for work) and wear red lipstick 
• Morning stretching (yoga) 
• Work on some kind of crafty project 
• Journal and read before bed 
• Drink more fruit infused water 
• Nightly family bike rides 
• Sunday ice cream dates 
• Learn more about cooking 
• Start saying yes to fun adventures with friends 

So here's to laughing and dancing more... here's to adding happiness to our daily lives. 

 

 

 

January Goals

It's a New Year. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery.

Three hundred sixty-five bright mornings and starlit evenings; fifty-two promising weeks; twelve transformative months full of beautiful possibilities; and four splendid seasons. A simply abundant year to be savored. 

Simple Abundance: A daybook of Comfort and Joy 

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This month I will FINISH...

1. January socks
2. One project from Elise "Get Quilty" e-course
3. 24 honeycombs for the Beekeeper's quilt 
4. Run 20 miles 
5. Make two cards and 3 scrapbook layouts 
6. Project life for January 
7. First three months of GG's baby album 
8. Move More, Eat Well Jump-start class
9. Set up the office/ baby room
10. One Little Word for January
11. Blog 15 times 
12. Leave 50 comments on other blogs 

September Goals

I have always been a BIG fan of goal setting. I don't really set big (long term) goals; I much rather set monthly goals because I feel like it is something that I can achieve. For the past few years I have set monthly goals and shared them here on the blog. This year I let the goal setting slide since I was not blogging as much, but now I am ready to get back into it. 

Since I am a little rusty at my goal setting, I re-visited the self-paced workshop "I Choose" on Big Picture Classes taught by Elise Blaha Cripe. If you are looking for a great movtivation to start goal-making, this is a GREAT workshop! I truly got a lot out of it both times that I worked through it. 

This month I have decied to make this a "Challenge Month." This is going to sound a little crazy, (trust me, I know!) but I want to do a few 30-Day Challenges.

Blog For 30 Days: I have already made a list of blog posts that I want to work on and I have put them all on a calendar. This challenge is really important to me. I am trying my best to get back into blogging because it is something that I love doing. I feel like it has been a big part of my life for the past seven years and I don't want to let it go. I am working on updating my personal blog story and will share soon. 

Photo-A-Day For 30 Days: Another important thing for me to get back into is Photography. I love the idea that I can capture my story with a camera. I love documenting and I don't want to miss a moment because I don't have my camera. Lately, I have been big on taking photos with my phone, but it is not the same thing to me. I love my camera! With this challenge I want to take a photo every day for 30 days with my camera only. I want to get to know my camera again by spending a little more time re-learning settings and functions from the manual and, who knows, maybe I'll learn something new about my camera! 

30 Days Of Scrapbooking: My friends like to make fun of me because I love scrapbooking. "Are you a scrapper?" (inside joke) When it comes to scrapbooking, I feel like I have lost my creative juices. I will sit down to make a layout or work on Project Life and at the end feel like everthing looks like crap. When I was art journaling all the time it came easy, but now it feels like I try too hard. With this challenge I want to take it back to the begining and make it simple with no pressure. I belong to a few paper clubs and they are just piling up at our house. I want to make sure that I get my money's worth. This sounds like a hard challenge to me... scrapbook for 30 days? How am I going to pull this one off?? BUT, that is what makes this a good challenge. I have two scrapbooking classes that I am going to work through: "Hello Story" and "31 Things" both taught by Ali Edwards from Big Picture Classes. 

Finish A Blog Makeover In 30 Days: I have been wanting to do a blog makeover for a long time now. I will work on the makeover for a few hours everyday. I have made both a to-do list and an action list. This is something that I really need to get done. I want to love visiting my blog again and a lot of stuff needs to be updated. 

I would also like to get a lot of knitting done... I need to:

Finish Greg's sweater. (This project is haunting me and I need to get it done) 

Knit GG a baby sweater. (I am going to make him a little Stanford "Old Man Cardigan") 

Knit September socks. (more on that soon! I am working on a post about sock knitting that will be live on the blog this Tuesday)

What are some of your September goals? 

Love your September and LIVE COLORFULLY!

My Reward: I am not going to be hard on myself about finishing all my goals. However, if I do finish all my goals have a little reward planned. 

There are a few knitting tools that I wanted and the Husband gave me the ok to buy them if I finish my goals. yay! 

Leather clutch took pouch 

Wooden gauge ruler 

Thread snips 

Black stitch marks 

 

* Photo credit: my husband 

* Digit products used: Glitz Design, Wild & Free collection