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.
Professional
1. Add high school certification to my teaching license
-I’m so excited! After passing my PRAXIS test 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! I plan on doing more work on my store over the summer.
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 I Corinthians
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.
Family
7. Do one family outing a month
-This month we went to a swimming pool and had pizza with another family.
8. Have one date night a month (in or out of house)
–In June we had an entire date trip (thanks to the generosity of my brother and sister-in-law who watched our kids!). We got to spend five days together exploring a new city!
9. Watch 12 movies on AFI Top 100 list
-We have watched 9 so far. This month we saw The Searchers, Titanic, and Goodfellas. Talk about your radically different movies!
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
12. Publish one piece of writing
-I submitted my first guest post to Money Saving Mom in February. Then I recently had another post in June. Check them out!)
13. Read 100 books
–62 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!
Altogether, June was a wonderful month of small victories and baby steps in the right direction.
How are you doing on your goals?
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Hello! I discovered your page through your recent post on Money Saving Mom and I must say, I like your goals! I’m glad to see you are having success.
Thanks, Rachel! I’ve followed Money Saving Mom for years, so I’ve learned a lot from Crystal 🙂