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With Imbolc freshly in mind, I’m stating goals:
1: Continue my quest to get healthy. I made good strides toward this in 2014 but fell off the wagon a bit with the holidays. I want to lose 30 pounds by August 1st.
- Track all food with MyFitnessPal, I’m currently on a 30 day streak. (Check out Lindsay’s streaking post, good stuff and works, too.)
- Track my water intake with Hydro.
- Walk daily, with a goal of 2 miles.
- Strength train 3 times per week.
2: Get beastie #4’s Christmas stocking cross-stitched and sewn by December 1st. I started during the Super Bowl.
3: I funded a Roth IRA for myself last week, something long overdue, and have automatic monthly contributions set up. However, I want to save enough so I can max the contributions by year’s end.
- Save 10% of my income.
- Increase the automatic monthly contributions.
4: I cut my reading goal on Goodreads for the year to, hopefully, encourage writing time. You can watch my progress in the side bar 🙂
5: Write. Believe it or not, this isn’t last or least on my list but seems to logically follow the reduced reading goal.
- Schedule time and stick to it!
- Utilize football and archery practice time for writing or, at the very least, writing related activities.
6: Build my brand, once I figure out exactly what it is, LOL.
- Blog two times a week.
- Post on Social Media three times a week.
- Visit blogs, and comment!
7: Rock my routines, AKA flying with Flylady.
- Reestablish my morning and evening routines through baby steps. (Another place where streaking is helping me. I’ve been using the HabitBull app.)
- Plan meals, and shop based on those meals. (Bonus, save money!)
How are you working your goals for 2015?
Raelyn Barclay 
Very doable. It was smart to make time for your writing by reducing the amount you read. Now there’s time for both.
One can only hope, LOL. Though with my new schedule cheat sheet I have been working on writing related stuff over my lunch hour. Mostly gutting and patching but moving forward, kinda.
Thanks Maria.
Those are very good goals! And like Maria said, doable. I carry around papers to edit (seems like the only thing I’ll be doing this year :/) so when I get time, I have them with me.
I’m also working on health. Trying to go to the gym in the morning three days a week and in the afternoon, two days. Still struggling with that. EDJ has been crazy and is sapping all of my energy.
Good luck, my friend. You can do it!!
Yeah, a stack of scenes are living in my purse…gutting and patching those suckers. Of course that’s only half the battle for this particular story as more drafting is needed.
Good luck with your health goals Melanie, and thanks.
Way to rock your goal-setting. Not only do you have the goals, but steps to make them happen. Good for you 🙂
I hope so 🙂 Thanks Angela.