Hi, friends! Can you believe we made it halfway through the year already? This year has been such a wonderful adventure and I can’t wait to see what the rest of the year holds. My June goals went surprisingly well and it has me itching to set July goals.
June Goals Recap – 7 of 11 Complete
document more on my blog and clean up my Pinterest boards- hang picture ledge – I ended up rearranging our bedroom on a whim, and now the place where I planned on hanging this needs rethought.
Complete Whole30– Done! We ate only healthy whole foods for 30 days. It was hard, as expected, but certainly worth it!Write out my top 3 tasks every morning— Done! I attribute the amount I accomplished this month to this one easy task. It helped me so much with prioritization.Friday adventures— Done! We went on a small hike (walk? Not sure what the difference is sometimes, to be honest) at Scott’s Run Nature Preserve, which felt like a wonderful little burst of nature.Ask for prayer requests— Done! This was a super easy but meaningful action to start the month out.find a local primary care physician— not only did I schedule the appointment, but I’ve already had it AND taken care of all the routine bloodwork.pull out my camera for some fun non-iPhone pictures— Done! Getting them to my computer for editing will be a whole other taskMake an IKEA trip for wall storage for our kitchen, jars for making kombucha, and baskets to organize our cat supplies better— Marking this as complete even though it didn’t go as planned. I reorganized a few things and now we don’t need the extra storage. I bought kombucha jars from Amazon for the same price and now have my first batch brewing, and I found a $2 basket at Goodwill to collect all our cat toys. Wins all around!- Go through 2+ years of phone photos — this is partially complete. I purged my 2013 photos, which had about 800 pictures. I took even more pictures each subsequent year, so I still have a lot more work ahead of me!
- Call or text a loved one every day — I totally forgot about this goal. This is why it pays to keep your goals somewhere visible.
Celebrating the end of Whole30 with patio drinks
Fun Things Happening in July
- On July 1st we celebrated our 2nd anniversary <3
- Our 1st 4th of July in Washington, D.C.
- This month also marks six months since we moved here.
July Theme: Little by little
For most of June I felt like I wasn’t making much progress or doing enough. But looking back? I made so much progress in a lot of areas. When I would write out my top 3 tasks each morning, I always wanted to add 5 or 6 things (and usually did) but focusing on the most important 3 first made it much easier for me to do the meaningful and important things. I’m definitely going to keep doing this!
July Goals
I use eight life categories to give me focus and help me realize if I’m neglecting a particular area of my life. The eight life categories are my environment, career, health, relationships, money, personal/spiritual development, fun, and service. Some of my goals hit more than one category, so I won’t always come up with eight different goals for each category. The great thing about using the categories as a guideline is that it gives me some structure to work with and helps me see if I have any blind spots.
Top 3
- Get connected to our new church – We’re hoping to visit a community group or two
- Journal every day – I had been so good about this for a while and fell out of the habit again. As an Enneagram 5, this does wonders for keeping me in touch with my feelings and helping me express myself better.
- Cull 2014-2015 iPhone photos – This is a task that doesn’t feel at all urgent but that I’ve been wanting to get done for years.
Bonus July Goals
- Trade in our old iPhones – We got new phones at the end of last year and I’ve been meaning to do something with them ever since
- Take new pictures for my blog bio – the one I have currently already feels outdated, plus I never really loved it to begin with. Taking pictures of myself feels icky to me so this seems like quite the chore
- Take our foster cat to at least one adoption event, preferably two!
- Organize our closet – I don’t have a good system right now and I know I’ll feel much better about it once it’s organized a little better
- Get into an exercise routine again – I switched the time of day I work out and now it’s become a lot easier to skip my workouts. I need more clarity about what I’ll do when!
- Order prints of our wedding photos – now that we’ve been married for a couple of years, I should really get around to this 😉
What are your July goals?
