And how did I do?

… pretty well, if I do say so myself!

I accomplished some of the goals I set for myself a year ago, though not all. But I also accomplished some things I never had on that list to begin with, so I’m not beating myself up for what I didn’t do.

So here’s how I’m doing since my mid-year check in…

Goals I have accomplished:

• Get to bed earlier
• Stay involved in politics
• Start looking at properties to buy
• Adopt a cat or two
• Maintain community of excellent humans
• Eat more good foods
• Drink less alcohol
• Don’t pour energy into work in off time
• Pray with intention
• Take better care of skin
• Be more philanthropic
• Learn to use my Instapot
• Do things I’m afraid of
• Speak and act with more confidence
• Be brave
• Rewrite the faulty parts of my second contemporary (Swim) and submit them to my mentor
• Switch to all-natural beauty
• Stop calling myself a late bloomer
• Get new desk chair
• Go somewhere I’ve never been before. We went to Maine, which isn’t Asia, but was still nice
• Create a budget and stick to it
• Ready myself for major life changes. I like to think I was as ready as I could be!

Goals I didn’t set at the beginning of the year but nonetheless accomplished:

• Survived pregnancy
• Birthed a child
• Kept said child alive for 30 days so far
• Figured out how my breast pump works
• Did an exciting literary thing I can’t post about yet 🙂

Goals I almost accomplished:

• Finish rewriting my first manuscript. I did this once, am now doing it again, and am very close to finishing, but don’t foresee myself finishing today
• Write 10 hours every week. I am 34 hours short of my yearly goal of 520 hours. Not bad!
• Write book reviews. I’ve been doing a good job of getting them up on Goodreads and Litsy. I need to cross-post to Amazon still
• Get administrative tasks done. I did a pretty good job with this this year, though was not perfect. To work on!
• Drink water. Ditto!
• Seek out new music. I found some new stuff but not much…

Goals to work on next year:

• Do yoga 3 times per week. It happened in the earlier trimesters, not so much in the later ones
• Do cardio twice a week. See above
• Don’t mindlessly scroll through phone. To work on more!
• Be less wasteful. I want a reusable coffee cup and I want to forgo plasticware entirely
• Evolve personal style. Must lose weight first, then will work on culling my closet and buying clothes more mindfully
• Blog more. I did terribly this past year!
• Read 52 books. Same!
• Draft something new. I started several things, and did not get far on any
• Stop worrying. I am who I am
• Watch my posture. Need to work on more
• Get things framed. Nope, didn’t do
• Print photos. Nope
• Whiten teeth. I was pregnant so didn’t really want chemicals in my mouth, so I excuse myself for this one
• Journal more. I didn’t do this and I need to
• Therapy. Hardly went at all
• Do something new and local every month. No time!
• Go back to France. No time…
• Go to Seattle. No time…
• Visit niece in North Carolina. No time…
• Compost. To be postponed until I have a house
• Pitch freelance work. No time… I’m not sure this is a thing I’ll do unless I find my commute entirely unbearable. I’d rather focus on novel-writing in the every-shrinking spare time I will have
•  Host dinner parties. To be postponed until we have a house
• Plan more outdoor activities. Maybe my baby will incentivize me to do this?

I’m going to do a separate post on my 2019 (!) goals, to come shortly!

Did you have goals? Did you meet them? Are you disappointed or happy with yourself? I believe in being flexible when it comes to these things, but let me know what you think!

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