I’ve been struggling with completing my goals for the last few months, and I’m struggling to come up with new ones for this month. Failure to finish them means, I think, that I’m not setting good ones (or ones that I actually care about doing) in the first place. Failure to set them, on the other hand, makes me feel a bit aimless.
While I let those thoughts roll around in my brain for a bit, there are a couple things I’d like to get done this month:
Clean out the garage. A carryover from last month, and I actually am pretty motivated to do this one. It would have gotten done in March if we’d actually been home for any significant amount of daytime on the weekends.
Figure out how to rearrange the living room/office/guest room/bonus room. I’ve been daydreaming repeatedly about moving to a new house, and I think a lot of it stems from a growing dissatisfaction with how some of our current spaces are functioning. Ideas include moving part or all of our home office upstairs, figuring out a way to combine a guest room and playroom, and/or coming up with new storage solutions for the living room.
Monthly “make stuff” list. First, I want to frame my Once Upon a Time sampler. I’ve got the frame and everything — I just need to do it. Next, I want to start on the next quilt on my list. I’ve got the fabric and the plan, so it’s time to start cutting and stitching. And finally, I want to make a bit of progress on the block of the month club that I signed up for, and have all the materials for, but haven’t started.
Misti says
I find that I set too many goals for myself often times. Or that I make up an urgency for some reason, like people can read what’s in my head.
I’m starting to throw a lot of ‘goals’ out and just try to focus on a few.
good luck with April’s goals!
saroy says
I do that too — give things more urgency than they truly need! Thanks for the reminder that that is silly.
June says
Setting goals for the simple reason of setting goals is a recipe for failure. Plus you are only going to do things you truly care about as you stated. Why not set REALISTIC goals. Some of the goals you have mentioned, in this post and in others are what is called being an adult. Sometimes you gotta be that. And please don’t be one of those people that just move to avoid doing work. You seem to have a time management issue. Not trying to be rude, just an observation.
saroy says
Hmm. I would say for the most part that the goals I’m setting are realistic, I think I’m doing pretty well at being an adult, and when I look at my life as a whole I wouldn’t say I have a time management issue.
For the past couple months I’ve certainly had a motivation issue, but I think that’s a bit different. It’s also worth noting that my goal posts are just small slices of my life. Sometimes I check everything off my list, sometimes a few, sometimes none. Where I fall on that spectrum in any given month depends a lot on external factors that I may not always talk about here.
I share my goals here not because I’m necessarily looking to be held accountable. I can do that on my own, and be firm or easy on myself as I see fit. I post them because I like reading these kinds of posts from others, and because it’s nice to be able to go back later on and see what I was doing and thinking at a given time.