Weekly Goal Reflection

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Money:  I made it to payday and didn’t die.  It was a bit frustrating to not go out and buy things and have to remind myself to be prepared or suffer the consequences.  I did forget to defrost meat for dinner one evening and ran out of butter so rice with tomato sauce was my dinner.  I also do not particularly care for eggs outside the quiche type things I make for breakfast.  Lessons learned.  Goal this week is to not spend except for those things planned.  Only outward expenditure this week is groceries.  Not breakfast on the way in, not lunch because I didn’t plan.  Not vape stuff.  

Writing: I haven’t been writing daily.  This is a planning thing and I am seeing it.  What topic to write about? What voice do I want this space to have? I want this to space to be a showcase of my writing and also of my growth as adult out in the world.  I have some ideas percolating in my brain and now it is just a matter of planning and getting them out.  Stories about how I got here, and what I am doing, developing myself as a coach and other topics I want to explore.  I am working on developing a running content idea folder.  Right now to push my reading goals, I am going to be reading to review books. Yay Me! My goal for this week is to publish the review and “icebreaker” by next reflection.

Reading: I have yet to pick up a book to read for this month! Right now, I have The Desire Map ready to be read on my journey back from being out of state.  My goal is have that complete and a review of it up by next Sunday.

Spring Cleaning: I am almost done with my spring cleaning.  It feels so nice to declutter and get rid of things that I am no longer using and no longer need.  I want to get my space cleared out by the Full Moon so I can do a negativity clearing ritual. Goal is to purge out remaining bin and store the rest.

Where I haven’t made progress:

Meditation and 6am wake ups have fallen off my radar a bit.  They are important and things I do want to be doing. With being sick, I slacked on wake ups.  Meditation – it is something that I am not in the habit of doing and need to make it a habit.  So at least once this week I will meditate for 5 mins.

This exercise in doing a weekly review raised my awareness to the fact that if I am not checking in, I am not holding myself accountable and stuff falls thru the cracks.  I am gonna post my monthly goals to my mirror at home also so I see them in the morning as a reminder.  I already have them as a sticky note on my desktop and the more reinforcement the merrier!

 

Money, Money, Money… MONEY!

So the theme/focus for March is going to be money.  I am rather disappointed with myself since it is the 4th day of the month and I have $20 in my accounts that needs to last me until my next check on the 11th.  Tomorrow, I will be spending $10 to go see my guy.  I have food, the pups have food and my basics are covered, but still.   I work a well paying job and I have no money.  And I don’t really have a safety net.  I don’t have anyone to bail me out if I miss my rent payment (well, I do but really do I want to borrow money when I make a pretty decent income???)  My credit is not stellar (again, history with money) so a personal loan right now is out of the question.  One of the big goals that I have for 2016 is to move in with my guy or at least closer to him.  In order to make that happen, I need to have $2000 saved up by Jan 1, and I have 4 cents in my savings account.  FOUR CENTS!!!!

With the plan that I had set up at the first of the year, I should have had $515 in my savings account and I have 4 cents????

How did I get here?

I blew thru my savings last month because of some mistakes I made at Christmas and commitments that I made to purchase things that I really shouldn’t have agreed, but did.

I have slacked at being prepared with meals.  Looking over my spending for the past couple of months – buying breakfast on my way into the office can average $5 – $8 depending on what I am getting and lunch averages about $10.  So $18 dollars a day on just food, not including dinner?

Lack of impulse control on purchases.  Ok – my bad habit right now is vaping – the Guy and I go to a vape shop and let me try out this new juice that is $20.  I don’t need the juice, specially when I just spent $100 ordering some stuff online.  Need to get that under control.

I have my budget set up and I should be able to meet my savings goal and still have some money left to go play with.  I just need to stick with it and work on it.

March Goals

It is my goal to write daily.  This blog is a means to that goal.  It will be a daily brain dump of stuff that I find, at least for now.

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Found here set goal, make plan, work, stick to it, reach goal – a success concept presented with colorful sticky notes

 

March Goals
– save $336
-play with dogs
-write daily
-read Desire Map
-meditation practice
-wake up @6am
-Get Living Space Cleared out of clutter
-House Clearing Ritual