In my last post I went over my four overall goals for 2020. I guess they were more themes for goals rather than specific goals… So I want to revisit each one with a bit more details, hopefully working towards a “SMART” goal that I can eventually say that I have definitively met.
I’ll start with #3 from my last post because once I commit to blogging, then I can use the rest of my goals to fulfill the blogging goal…
Continue readingIt has been a while since I did an updated show and tell of my bullet journal. I still use it daily, and have made some adjustments throughout the months, but rather than going through all of the various iterations, I will just show how I have set everything up for January.
I don’t normally have a title or intro page for my months, but I figured the start of a new year deserved something special. I got inspiration from Pinterest (so I cannot take full credit for my designs). I also added a washi tape border so that I could flip easily to the beginning of the new year. I am very happy with how it turned out, so I may continue doing something like this in the future… We will see…
After the first week of meal planning, which I wasn’t really sure if it was a success… I took some of the advice I received and continued, though I didn’t concern myself as much with things staying on the exact day they were assigned…
Here’s how things went…
My meal plan in my bullet journal didn’t really get any prettier, but I think it was a bit better laid out…
Monday, I made my dinner plan be “my husband”… He had the day off work, and I had a meeting right after work, so we got him to do the meal plan and cooking. Rather than force him in to cooking a specific thing, I left it open for his creativity/desires. We ended up with BBQ chicken skewers, which were delicious! Continue reading
One of my personal goals for 2017 was to have a focus for each month. I did okay with my morning routine in January, and then I went the other direction in February by concentrating on realistic expectations… But then I didn’t define another monthly focus until June, and then it wasn’t even that successful… July and August went by without any focus… And so we have made it to September… I’m going to renew my attempts at having a focus for the month.
I originally tried having this as my focus for February, but that fell through… So, I have decided to revisit meal planning for my September focus.
I showed various versions of my past “meal planning” when I discussed my weekly spread in my bullet journal, but honestly, I wasn’t very good at it. And, at some point over the past year I stopped writing out a full week of daily layouts on my bullet journal ahead of time, and with that I stopped putting in a meal plan for the week… I still tracked what I was eating, but I didn’t have a place to write down the plan… And then, at some point in July, I stopped even keeping track of what I ate in my bullet journal (I still keep track, but I moved to keeping track of it in an app – MyFitnessPal).
Anyway, this is a long winded way of saying that I haven’t had a weekly meal plan written down in a very long time… Continue reading
I have a lot of blog posts that I have started writing, but either they required me to do some more research, accomplish some sort of task, or work through some thought processes before finishing them up. Unfortunately, it seems that a lot of these may never be finished…
Whether or not it was his intention, a recent post published by Steve over at ThinkSaveRetire got me motivated to revisit these posts… (I realize that his post was intended to help us revisit posts that have already been published, and it may help me do that as well, but it reminded me that the drafts that are sitting unloved in my WordPress account could still be worth salvaging if I update them to my current status and mindset.)
But… As is typical with me, I always have grand plans but then fail to follow through. So, I’m going to use you, my faithful readers, as accountability partners. Here are a few posts that I am now committing to finish up and publish in the next few weeks: Continue reading
Remember that time that I said I would get back in to regular posting? Yeah, apparently that was a lie… Since it still hasn’t happened… Anyway, I promised that I would post the rest of my bullet journal transition, so I guess I should get this posted since I’ve already done the second month of my new bullet journal… Continue reading
Despite my best efforts, and using my bullet journal, I still haven’t quite caught up on life since being back from our holiday and then being away for work. But… One of the things I was working on is to transition to a new bullet journal for the month of April. I started the process in March (and also started writing this post then), but just like most things in my life lately, I sort of only half completed the job… I did, however, take some photos of the process, so I thought I’d share them with you. Continue reading
Well, I’m back from my vacation, and it really was a holiday. I didn’t bring a laptop, and I didn’t check email, or keep up on my blog, so it has definitely been a bit of catch-up now that I am back… The number of emails in my collection of inboxes was quite high! I’m still working on getting back to the normal routine, so I don’t have any real content to share with you today…
Instead, I thought I’d share a couple images of my bullet journal that I used as a travel journal for my trip. I’m pretty proud of my doodles, so I’m going to share… I “should” be back to normal by Thursday and will hopefully have something more exciting for you. Until then, “Aloha!”
I never seem to get ahead of the game… every time I think I’m finally getting a handle on being organized, something comes up, or I say yes to one too many things…
Anyway, the latest thing that snuck up on me (other than missing a Tuesday blog post, shhhh) was our spring break vacation. I am currently typing this on my phone while I wait for our flight to Hawaii. (I know, I know, it’s not good to tell the interweb where we are going and when, but we have housesitters in our house, so it’s not abandoned, and that’s all the details you are getting… )
In order to help me get organized, I made a couple spreads in my bullet journal. The first was just the trip details for planning purposes.
This is where I put down the pertinent information about our flights, accommodation and car rental. It made it easy to check on and share with those that needed to have that info.
The second spread that really helped me get sorted and not stress out was my packing list.
I’m sure that I ended up over packing for this trip, but at least with the list I knew I wasn’t going to forget anything important. Or, at least I haven’t discovered that I’ve forgotten anything yet…
Anyway, I probably won’t do another post while I’m on holidays, but will rest up and get lots of good ideas for when I return. Enjoy your spring break!
On Tuesday, I posted about my personal goals for 2017. Goal #4 was to complete a monthly focus. For January, I have chosen my mornings.
I think I’ve mentioned before that my old morning routine is no longer working out as well… The new puppy has added in a whole new set of tasks and requirements. And I wanted to re-think it, and re-work it to fit my life now… Of course, as she always seems to do, just when I needed some inspiration on the topic, Cait Flanders posted about her slow morning routine that she is working on for January.
Unlike Cait, however, I am not trying to slow down my mornings… As much as I would love to… I’m more interested in making sure that I get the important tasks completed. I already naturally have very slow mornings… If I make a cup of tea, I sometimes just sit and drink it staring out the window… And that is fine, if it fits in to the timeline of getting to work on time.
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