A Look Back at November’s Goals

Goals for November

Small Business Goals

• Film and post four videos to my art channel
• Add one item to my Etsy shop each week
• Install my new printer
• Design a very small Christmas range
• Buy five each of the Sea-Life Notebook Range

I did everything but the Notebooks. I’m still in two minds about the notebooks and whether I want to keep them on Amazon or make my own from home.

Seasons of Joy

• Go through the book case in the hallway so I can use it as an extension to my office
• Paint the hallway
• Organise the leads around Abs’ office
• Neaten around the door frame

I didn’t do so well here. No excuse or reason. I just didn’t do it!

Health Goals

• Morning Routine
• Evening Routine
• Lose four pounds
• Eat between 10am and 6pm and stop snacking at nighttime
• Walk over 10000 steps each day, every day
• Get out in sunlight for at least one hour per day
• Take supplements

I am doing so badly here I’m going to devote the whole of December getting back to peak health again. I’ll be writing about this in more detail tomorrow.

Precious Moments

• At least one Date Night with Gary
• At least one Girl Club with my girlies!
• Eat together as a family at least five times a week
• Organise at least one family night
• Go to a garden centre with mum

We’re really struggling to do anything as a family because we now have such varying schedules. Even eating together is hard since Charlotte started work. She is not back until gone six but the littles need to have eaten before then to get to their various clubs and activities. Juggling everything is getting progressively harder.

Reading Books

• Read at least ten books
• Read at least one classic, one academic and one about fostering/adoption
• Reread The Complete Guide to Therapeutic Parenting and write a review (Christianity magazine has asked me to review it (And they’re paying me to do it!!))
• I have a large TBR list which I really want to focus on getting through. I did not feel like October was a particularly strong month for getting through books. I met my goals but I had not set myself a very difficult goal list to meet. I want to push myself a bit harder this month and make some real head way through the TBR list.

Done

Homeschool

• Rebecca to have completed the booklet for Mixed Media and Textiles and for me to have sent them off for marking and made head way on the next Photography booklet and the next Textiles booklet.
• Have Becs signed up to complete her courses within the next year.
• Abs to complete two lessons each of Sociology, Psychology, Chemistry, Biology and Physics
• I’d like to have helped Abs make some revision cards and to have photocopied some past papers.

Although technically I can’t cross these out, we have almost completed them all. Gary has taken this week and next week off work as he couldn’t get his usual Christmas time off. Although we’re not going anywhere, we are trying to spend as much time with Gary as possible. The girls would have completed everything by the end of this week, but we have given them some time off so will complete it once Gary has gone back to work.

Master’s Degree

• Finish this term’s work
• Continue with Assignment one and try to have the first draft written by the end of November
• Read Beyond Listening and start to make notes for assignment two

All Done

Blog

• I would like to update four old posts this month (aim for one per week) – obviously, this is something I am struggling with so I am going to schedule for me to do this whilst watching TV in the evenings when Gary is not around. It doesn’t require much thought or concentration so I am hoping having a specific time to do this will help.
• Repost one updated post per week
• I would love to get to the end of this month and say that I have posted everyday bar Sundays. 
• Focus on my living maths page and create a more cohesive selection of posts to help homeschoolers who are wanting to go down this route.
• Record a video about morning meeting/basket time and write an accompanying post about it

I’ve done much better than it looks here! I have updated the posts but chose not to repost them, keeping them where they were (if that makes sense?). I have posted almost every day, missing only a couple of Saturdays, so that is almost a win! I have also done a lot of work on my living maths page, I just haven’t completely finished yet, although I really am very close.

Writing

• I am still plugging away at my Mesopotamia Unit Study and this month I just want to carry on. Specifically, I’d like to record a video about cylinder seals of Urek and write an accompanying blog post
• I’d like to publish my ‘Six Week Unit Study Planning’ booklet on Amazon
• Each month I try to read about writing from one of the greats (I’ve done C. S. Lewis and Stephen King). This month I want to read Phillip Pullman’s Daemon Voices. This has been the goal now for the last two months and I haven’t got round to it. I intend to use this month’s credit to buy this book as I really do want to actually read it and not just write about reading it!
• I’d like to start to collate all of the printables I have made for my Mesopotamian curriculum and some how amalgamate them into one place so they are not just scattered around my blog. This will take a lot of time so I just want to make a start on it in November.

Lol! I STILL haven’t read Phillip Pullman’s Daemon Voices. I think that’s been a goal for the last three months! And I haven’t published my six week planning guide. It’s ready to go but I think I somehow forgot…

Art

• My mum has asked me to design her Christmas cards this year. I wasn’t necessarily going to create a Christmas range for my small business but I think this has given me the impetus to do just that. So this month I’d like to complete two Christmas designs.
• My new printer prints A3 size so I’d like to use my designs to perhaps make a Christmas wrapping paper to go along with the card. I don’t find pattern making that easy so I don’t know that I have the skill to do this, but I’m going to give it my best shot.

Yay! Did these and more!

Home-Making

I’m adding a new category here because my home-making skills are woeful and there are small things I’d like to do each month to automate things so I can become a bit more of a reliable housekeeper…

• I want to do one thing this month and that is to have milk delivered to the house each morning so we never run out of milk. Ahem. So I want to research milk delivery options in our area and organise a daily delivery.

Done

I’m not sure if I’m proud of myself or not. I seem to have spent an inordinate amount of time at my desk and not enough time doing other things that are important to me. I’ve done way over and above with things towards my art and art business but my health goals have drastically suffered.

I’m going to post about this tomorrow, but December is going to be the month that I get my health back to how it was at the end of August.

How have you done with your monthly goals?