Each year I set goals to help me focus on my priorities and grow as a person. I spend an hour or so each month looking back at what I’ve accomplished that past month and planning specific steps I can take to move forward during the next month.
2015 Goals
Professional
1. Add high school certification to my teaching license
-I’m so excited! After passing my PRAXIS test in February and submitting all of the necessary information to my state board of education, I am now certified in grades 6-12 English!
2. Develop a remediation curriculum for middle school English
-I taught a 6th grade English remediation class at my school last year. I also tutor after school and teach summer school. I hadn’t found a curriculum that I really liked for this group of kids, so I decided to make my own. It is working well so far!
3. Add 10 products to my Teachers Pay Teachers store
-I have now added 4 products. If you are a teacher or homeschooling parent, check out my post on selling on Teachers Pay Teachers! Honestly, I’ve put my Teachers Pay Teachers store on the back burner since I started this blog. I hope to add a few more products to it this fall, as I do enjoy the passive income gained from it.
Spiritual
4. Pray the Morning Prayers at least 4 times a week
-I am really excited at how much improvement we’ve made on this. I wrote about our new morning plan for including prayers here.
5. Read through the New Testament
-I am now finishing Philemon
6. Read 3 spiritual books
-I have finished two: In the Heart of the Desert by Fr. John Chryssavgis and The Way of A Pilgrim translated by Olga Savin.
-Does anyone have any suggestions for my third book?
Family
7. Do one family outing a month
-In September we went on a camping trip with my brother and sister-in-law. I shared more about that trip, as well as tips for camping with little ones, here.
8. Have one date night a month (in or out of house)
–We had a fun in-house date night where we watched the last two Astronaut Wives Club episodes of the summer and ate Chinese food. I love the simple nights!
9. Watch 12 movies on AFI Top 100 list
-We have watched 9 so far.
-If we watch one movie per month the rest of the year, we will easily make this goal!
Personal
10. Complete the 30 Day Abs Challenge
-I am beginning to despair of ever accomplishing this one. I’ve started at least three different times but always get bogged down around Day 10. Has anyone else tried this?
11. Run a 5K
-I registered to run a 5K on October 31. I am so excited (and scared to death!).
12. Publish one piece of writing
-I submitted my first guest post to Money Saving Mom in February. Then I had another post in June. Check them out!
13. Read 100 books
-86 so far! I’m definitely on track to complete this goal this year. When I started this challenge I thought it might be too outrageous. Now I’m excited that it seems completely reachable!
What are your goals? How are you doing on reaching them?
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