I thought I would mix things up instead of just doing a bunch of recaps that I want but don't know who actually enjoys reading them. {grin} So I still need to post about Christmas, our trip to Ruidoso, and the girls' birthday stats, I'm going to share the results of my worst year of goal setting ever. [Original post here]
Health Goals
1. Develop a better relationship with food and 2. Hit goal weight - let's just say a big fat nope and move on, shall we. I'm feeling really awful about these goals and where I stand compared to them and they will both be ongoing goals until I master them...so probably until I die.
3. Keep running - also nope. I think I ran twice in 2021. My running buddy moved away, and while we promised to keep running together, it didn't happen, and I don't like running alone! The upside is not running didn't mean I wasn't working out! I definitely maintained my workout schedule of 5-6 workouts/week, so I'm very happy about that.
4. Increase my flexibility - Success! One goal that I can say I did a good job with. I go to Pilates or Yoga about once a week, and I can really see a difference in my flexibility. I even had some success with the Mermaid Pose - I can't hit it every time I try, but I definitely have made progress.
5. Eat more vegetables - This is hit or miss. If I'm in the groove with food, I'm doing good, and if I'm not, I'm not. Will continue on as a goal, sigh.
Family Goals
1. Create a chore list for the kids - As an official list, no. As me telling them to do chores, yes. Are we doing it consistently? Also no, ha, but we have made progress here.
2. Get an evening schedule going - This is continuing to evolve and get better, but I still feel like we could improve here. Part of this involves having the kids perform chores in the evening to help clean the kitchen and that isn't happening. But we are doing well overall with an evening routine...minus that part ha.
3. Kid dates - I'm going to give myself a C- here. I took the girls to several movies but didn't do nearly as much as I planned and really almost nothing with Trent 1-on-1. Not to say I didn't spend time with him but not much, eek.
4. Travel as a family - Here's one we did, yay! We went to Brent's cousin's house, to the lake, and our vacation to Ruidoso!!!
NYE in the mountains!
Personal Goals
1. Read the Bible - Nope. But I'm not giving up...Eventually I will do this!
2. Close all monthly challenges - I got 10/12, so almost 85%! They got harder each month, and I finally got to the point where I just couldn't do it anymore for my mental health! I hit all but September and November.
3. Book goals - I did really good here and will do a whole book post later this month.
- Read 100 books - I hit 124!
- Continue to reduce the pile of physical books in my room - well, I definitely read/got rid of some old books in my 'pile' but also added to it ha. I think I'm going to track what I get for the pile and get rid of in 2022!
- Educational books - Looking at my reads from 2021, I'd say 10 or so I would classify as 'educational', so I'm happy about this!
- Books by/about POC - I wanted to increase my percentage from 25%, and I hit over 30% this year!
- Classics - I wanted to read 2 books but only read 1 {I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings}. One of my neighbors and I have picked a couple to read this year together, so this should be easier this year!
So there we have it. A very lackluster year of goal achievement. I'm still working on my goals for 2022, but don't be surprised to see some repeats since I did such a crappy job of accomplishing these, ha.
