It's quarterly goals update time! As a reminder, here are my goals for 2022. Here's how Q1 went. Now on to the second quarter. My health goals went okayish. Everything else was so so. It was a tough quarter for me professionally and some of that unhappiness bled into these personal goals.
Area One: Health
1) Work out five times a week for 30 minutes or more. Yoga twice a week. Something else three times a week.
April
24/30 days of formal workouts of 30 minutes or more
13 yoga workouts
12 strength/cardio workouts
May
26/31 days of formal workouts of 30 minutes or more
9 yoga workouts
16 strength/cardio workouts
June
24/30 days of formal workouts of 30 minutes or more
8 yoga workouts
16 strength/cardio workouts
I did 74/91 days of formal workouts (81.3%) this quarter, which is higher than the 5/7 days goal I had set (71.4%). The yoga goal of twice a week would work out to 26 over the quarter and I did 30, so I hit that. My "something else" three times a week would work out to 39 over the quarter and I did 44, so I also hit that metric. I feel pretty darn good about this.
*2) Drink at least sixteen ounces of water before lunch and sixteen ounces of water after lunch every day.
April: 16/30 (53%) days in the morning, 29/30 (97%) days after lunch
May: 10/31 (32%) days in the morning, 29/31 (94%) days after lunch
June: 25/30 (83%)days in the morning, 29/30 (97%) days after lunch
After a lackluster early performance, I did get better about filling my mug with water after my morning tea in June. Let's call it a small win.
Area Two: Professional
*1) Apply to a new job at least once a week until I have a new job.
I've sent out a bunch of resumes and cover letters and have even had a couple of interviews, but I'm still stuck at my current job. I'm honestly so unhappy about this that it's even hard to type it out.
2) Respond to emails for my volunteer gig in a timely manner.
Ha ha ha. People have taken to texting me when I actually need to respond. I'm obviously letting this slide.
Area Three: Communication
1) Continue to post in my blog at least twice a week.
April: 20 posts
May: 20 posts
June: 17 posts
Easily met this goal. Yay!
2) Continue to write a note to K/D/M once a month.
April: Everyone was sent an Easter card.
May: I sent everyone a card for Mother's Day.
June: I guess I just didn't do it this month. Oh, well.
3) Keep lists of snail mail I send and books I read.
April: Book list here. I sent one bill, eight Easter cards, including to K/D/M, two birthday cards, and a legal document through the mail for a total of 12 items out in snail mail.
May: Book list here. I sent four Mother's Day cards, three bills, and one birthday card for a total of eight items out in snail mail.
June: Book list here. I sent three birthday cards, one Father's Day card, and one bill for total of five items out in snail mail. June was not my best month for mail.
*4) Text T/T/M every week. I feel like I'm letting some of my best friendship sort of fall to the wayside because I'm mired in work-related unhappiness, but I need to let these people know I think about them all the time. Texting isn't intrusive to them, either, so this is a win-win.
April: Completed!
May: I did fail this for one of those people on one week, but otherwise completed.
June: Completed!
Area Four: Post-Pandemic Re-Entry
1) Visit a new park/nature preserve/outdoor space at least once a quarter.
This quarter I went to a park for a graduation party in Michigan. It was new to me!
*2) Visit my mom.
I did not visit my mom, but I'm going to be seeing her in the first week of July, so just barely outside of the second quarter.
*3) Have people over to our house at least once - for a game night, dinner, or just a hangout. We can't keep ourselves in a bubble forever.
April: A friend was visiting from out of state and she came over for lunch.
May: We had friends over for dinner one night.
June: Womp womp. No one entered our house except for us.
Area Five: Miscellaneous
*1) Keep track of mileage walked with the dog.
April: 53.78 miles logged this month, which is roughly 1.8 miles a day. Most days we walked three times, but there were occasional days when we did one more or one less. On an average day, we walk about a quarter of a mile around the block first thing in the morning, a mile or so in the afternoon, and whatever Hannah feels up to right before bed. On any day that we only went on two walks, she was walked by my husband to get her to three walks a day.
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Number of Walks
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Number of Days
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2
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3
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24
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4
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2
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May: 48.8 miles logged this month, which is roughly 1.6 miles a day. There were a couple of really hot days when Hannah was not up for anything and a few days when she was in some considerable amount of pain and we got less than a mile on those days.
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Number of Walks
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Number of Days
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2
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3
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24
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4
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4
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June: 40.82 miles logged this month, which is roughly 1.36 miles a day. There were a couple of really hot days, Hannah has had some bad pain days, and I was out of town a couple of days. Also, and this is key, fireworks started at the end of the month and Hannah has been basically refusing to go for her evening walk for a couple of weeks now. This will probably go on all summer. Poor scared dog.
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Number of Walks
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Number of Days
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0
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1
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7
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21
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*2) Keep track of how I spend my time for a week. Lisa did this in January and I stole the idea from her. Stephany and San did it, too, so I'm really just being a follower.
In college, I was overcommitted and I was having a mini-breakdown in my therapist's office when she had me take off my watch. She kept it for a week and in that week, I stopped watching the seconds pass by and chilled the fuck out. I still don't wear a watch to this day. I started this exercise on a regular, not much scheduled, nothing urgent happening Saturday, but by 1:30 that afternoon, I found myself checking the clock every two minutes and freaking out over a whole lot of nothing. I immediately stopped tracking my time. As much as I'd like to have the data this exercise would produce, I think I'm going to have to just pass on it.
*3) Create a document for Dr. BB in the event of my untimely death. Inspired by Suzanne's post.
Ha ha ha. I did not even start this. Rollover to next quarter.
*4) Just figure out how to put more money in my investment accounts. (rollover from last year and last quarter)
I DID THIS! Holy hell. I figured out how to log in to the online account in early April and I set it up to take more money out every month. It wasn't even that hard!!
*5) Continue to donate $50 a month to a local charity.
April: This month was high in expenses, but I donated $30 to the community foundation for the community center where I worked, so I consider this a job well done.
May: Nope. I bought raffle tickets at the Farmer's Market ($20), but that hardly seems like it counts.
June: I donated $100 to our local community center ($50 for our yearly membership and $50 for a fundraiser).
I'm basically just including my goals for next quarter here so they're all in one place. Most of these are remaining the same.
Area One: Health
1) Work out five times a week for 30 minutes or more. Yoga twice a week. Something else three times a week.
*2) Drink at least sixteen ounces of water before lunch and sixteen ounces of water after lunch every day.
Area Two: Professional
*1) Apply to a new job at least once a week until I have a new job.
2) Forget responding to emails in a timely manner. Just figure out how to organize the email inbox for my volunteer gig.
Area Three: Communication
1) Continue to post in my blog at least twice a week.
2) Continue to write a note to K/D/M once a month.
3) Keep lists of snail mail I send and books I read.
*4) Text T/T/M every week
Area Four: Post-Pandemic Reentry
1) Visit a new park/nature preserve/outdoor space at least once a quarter.
*2) Visit my mom.
*3) Have people over to our house at least once - for a game night, dinner, or just a hangout. We can't keep ourselves in a bubble forever.
*4) Buy more KN-95 masks. For a while I thought I could get away without them, but I'm still not comfortable going into public places without a mask, so here we go again.
Area Five: Miscellaneous
*1) Keep track of mileage walked with the dog.
*2) Create a document for Dr. BB in the event of my untimely death. Inspired by Suzanne's post.
*3) Donate $50 a month to a local charity.
*4) Brush the dog and cat's teeth. I did a great job in the first quarter when I tracked it, but when I stopped tracking, I stopped doing it, so I'm adding it back.
How are your quarterly goals going? Are you setting any new one for the third quarter?
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