At the beginning of 2012, for the first time ever I compiled a list of goals. I thought that as we are a quarter of the way through the year I would look at how I am doing with these goals.
Goals
Soul and spirit: friends, faith, fellowship, community
Invite people
round at least once a month – hasn’t happened
Respond to
comments on my blog – have
done this occasionally
Meet people for
coffee once a week - met with Liz twice
and Rebecca 3 times
Speak to people
rather than just text or e-mail - occasionally
Visit Pa more
regularly -
been once!
Spend time with
God: pray, read the Bible - have been
following a daily reading plan for reading the Bible chronologically.
Complete Divine
Romance - gave up on this
Completed the
Confident Heart book study - gave up on this
Attend Lifegroup - have been every
week apart from when I was in Pembrokeshire
Attend church - have been every week
I’ve been in Solihull
Body:
fitness, diet, sleep
Attend Rosemary
Conley weekly - have attended
unless I was somewhere else!
Exercise three
times a week - haven’t kept this
up but have been walking more
Go for a long
walk each week -
have done a long walk every week of this year so far
Drink three glasses
of water each day -
hasn’t happened
Sleep 6 to 7
hours every night -
hasn’t happened
Do the Made to
Crave study -
gave up on this
Mind: art, reading, Etsy, photography, blog
Art
Complete
Scrapbook Life Journal -
up-to-date at the end of March
Complete Doodles
Unleashed –
didn’t complete this as the latter part of the class didn’t interest me, but at
least I found out what wasn’t my style
Complete ATC swap
each month -
have completed the first 3 months
Watch jumpstart
videos - watched all the videos and read the
blogs
Do Art Every Day
Journal -
I don’t necessarily do it every day but the journal is up-to-date to the end of
March
Take part in 21
secrets -
this only started on 1st April
Just do art - haven’t done much,
particularly in March as I was doing Ashes to Beauty.
I didn't include One Little Word in this list but I am up-to-date with that also. I discovered Ashes to Beauty after I had written these goals and I have completed about 75% of it.
Reading
Read a book each
week - haven’t
necessarily read one a week but have read quite a few books but sometimes
several in the same week.* Also in the midst of dipping into at least 4 other
books all at the same time.
Complete A
Confident Heart book study - gave this up, but will definitely read the book
Photography
Take a photo each
day for the 365+1 challenge - gave this up
Take part in Snap:2012
- gave
this up
Use the camera in
manual at least once per week - have taken lots of pictures this year but have taken
them all on automatic
Etsy
Make three mini
books per month –
I made the basis of 3 journals in January and in February so have 6 ready to be
finished.
Investigates new
styles of mini books -
have been thinking about this
Make three
SONflowers per month -
haven’t done this at all
Accounts - not touched this
and need to be done by May
Blog
Newlycreative: blog 3 times per week - have blogged 22 times out of a potential 39
WhollyCreative: blog once per week - only blogged once this year
Artful Faith: blog once per week - only blogged once this year
Books I’ve read in 2012
Fiction
Psalm 23 Series: The Lord is my Shepherd; I Shall Not Want; Lie
Down in Green Pastures by Debbie Viguie
From Ashes to Honor by Loree
Lough
A Sweethaven Summer by Courtney Walsh
They Almost Always Come Home by Cynthia Ruchti
A Hearth in Candlewood by
Delia Parr
The Pastor’s Wife by Jennifer AlLee
Non-Fiction
You’re already Amazing by Holley Gerth
Personality Plus by Florence Littauer
Let Me Be A Woman by Elisabeth Elliot
Restoring Your Spiritual Passion by Gordon MacDonald
I can see that there are areas that need more focus but on the whole I am quite pleased with my focus so far. I am sure that I have actually achieved more in 3 months than I normally would have done because I wrote these goals down in the first place.
Did you set yourself goals this year? If so, how are you getting on? Do leave a comment telling me how you are doing.
It does seem like you've done a lot. I've been moving along on my one little word goals - to focus on "home" in all its aspects.
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And you say I am always busy! seems a lot going on there but at least it all sounds fun!
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