This post contains affiliate links. Crazy to think we’re 2/3rds done with 2021! My yearly goals are coming along nicely, but I still want to stop time from passing so quickly!
Every week, I set weekly goals and share how I did on those goals. I think of them as micro goals. Then, once a month, I’ll update you on my yearly goals. This is my eighth monthly update post.
Concrete Goals
Read 26 Books
This goal is 100% accomplished. As of the end of August, I had read 26 books in 2021, which was my goal for the year.:
Who Gets in and Why (review coming soon!)
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Elisabeth Elliott: Joyful Surrender,
Complete Half of The Bible in a Year Program
This goal is 95% accomplished. As of the end of July, I’d listened to 175 days of Father Mike Schmitz’s podcast, The Bible in a Year. My goal is to complete 1/2 of this in 2021, so I have 8 more days to go.
Complete & Utilize Two Trainings for My Blog
This goal is 8% accomplished.
I have not yet completed the trainings, but I’m working on a training for SEO right now.
Live a Healthier Life
Sure, live a healthier life is vague, but here’s how I break it down:
Track my points on WW’s Green plan every day
Accomplished in August. I did great with this in August. I continued using Weight Watcher’s Green Plan. I did have a plateau for almost all of August, but I’m sticking with it!
Exercise at least five days a week
In August, I used our treadmill three to five times a week except for 7 days last week when the temps were between 104 and 108.
Lose weight
Thanks to my plateau, I only lost 1.5 pounds in August. But the weight does seem to be coming off again, and any weight off is weight off.. I’m now down 43.5 pounds total since I started losing weight last year.
Watch videos and read books on how to stop emotional eating healthy living.
I only listened to two in August.
Find and Eliminate Time Wasters
This year I’ve been working on way to become more efficient. However, I didn’t work on this in June or July.
In January, I found ways to reduce my time in the kitchen!
In February, I started limiting my social media time to 30 minutes a day.
In March and April, I had my kids taking cooking classes so they could cook a few times a week and give my husband and me a break!
In May, I rearranged my schedule with the kids’ help so that I have about two hours during the day to work rather than doing all my work on the weekend.
I haven’t done much with this since June.
Research My Ancestry
This goal is 100% complete. My Ancestry.com subscription is done. However, for Mother’s Day, the kids and my husband gave me money that I can use for ancestry research. I plan to get a subscription to newspaperarchive.com so I can learn about those ancestors, but I’m going to wait a few months because the next few months will likely be busy for us. I plan to work on this again closer to wintertime.
Declutter the House
This goal is 75% complete. I didn’t do much with this in August.
Complete Home Improvement Projects
This goal is 75% complete!
No improvements in August. We used up all our house money in July painting the house and maintaining our roof.
July’s Improvement
July was a costly but productive home improvement month. We had our roof repaired because we had several broken tiles.
Then, we finally got the exterior painted. I never really cared for the peachy color it was when we bought the house. The color just seemed like it was from the 90s. I like the new color scheme much better.
We have a patio off the back of our house, and since we moved in, large pieces of the paint blew off during monsoon storms. The painters said that whoever did the painting before just painted directly on the ceiling dry wall, which made it not stay on. This painting company sent out a man who put on three layers of plaster over the drywall before they painted. It looks so much better!
June’s Improvement
I wanted to buy some curtains for our house, but I waited until Amazon Prime Day. The first curtain I replaced was the ratty green one by our front door. I replaced it with a creamy one that makes the entry way much brighter.
I also ordered curtains for our bedroom, but we haven’t had time to put them up yet.
Previous 2021 Improvements
Here are our completed projects:
The ugly livingroom:
The kids’ bathroom cabinets:
This year, we’d like to:
paint the livingroom,paint the kids’ bathroom cupboardspaint the kitchen cupboards,paint PB & J Girl’s ceiling,- replace the carpet,
- replace the sliding glass door handle, and
paint the outside of the house
There’s more we’d like to do like replace some light fixtures, fix our rusty wrought iron gate (the painters were able to do this)put in back splash, and replace our bathroom mirror, but we’ll wait on the other items.
Maybe Teach Bookworm to Drive
10% Complete. In August, Bookworm advanced from driving in empty parking lots only to driving around our subdivision. So far, so good.
Overall, I’m happy with the progress I’ve made so far on my yearly goals.
What are your goals for 2021? How much have you accomplished so far?
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