Resolutions

I used to be really big on new year's resolutions. Well, not "really big", but I always made a couple. Then like the rest of America, I'd promptly forget said resolutions about 3 weeks in to the new year. Hooray! In recent years I haven't made any because I don't like to fail, and it always felt like resolutions were just giant set ups to fail.

Well, this year is different...and I'm not just saying that :) I decided to make multiple smaller goals instead of one giant resolution. What's more is that I decided to split my goals up quarterly. I thought about writing everything down at once and then splitting from there, but frankly I just can't think that far ahead. There are things I'm pretty sure I'll still want to accomplish at the end of the year, but goals change and I wanted the freedom to change things up without feeling like I'm failing at not following through. So with that in mind, I decided I'd just do my Jan-March goals and then make my next set of 3 month goals when the time came at the end of March.

I split my first quarter goals into 5 categories
Home, Health, Personal, Work, Fun

I won't bore anyone with the full list of my goals, but a sampling of some were...
HOME: Organize under the bathroom cabinet.

Which included all my make up.

 And skin care...

PERSONAL: Make a home made bath or beauty product- I made two sugar scrubs.
1) Almond scented brown sugar scrub
2) Lemon sugar scrub

HOME: Another goal was to get more of our kitchen functionally organized. We don't have a particularly small  kitchen, but we have really limited cabinet space so it makes things tricky. I purchased this industrial shelving from Cost Plus and really love it. So far, so good.

Some other goals I had for Jan-Mar.

WORK: to gain 10 new business facebook likes. I started at 210 and now am at 243 I believe. I way surpassed that goal and I'm really happy with that. These days marketing is less about spending money on magazine ads and more on social media, so the more people see my page, the better.

FUN: Go snowshoeing 2 times. (only made it out once)
HEALTH: Eat in M-F (we were really good about this Jan-mid Feb and then started slacking at bit, but this goal will be ongoing I'm pretty sure)
HEALTH: Exercise 4x weekly including 3x yoga (I stuck to this pretty well)

Under all of the 5 categories, I had three goals. 15 total. I accomplished 8 total, which is 8 more than I would have, had I not done this at all, so I'm happy with that.

We're now 3 weeks into April and I've yet to sit down and make my second quarter goals, so I need to do that...today, and I will.

Yea accomplishment!