I already hate myself for what I’m about to say: I cannot believe July is over. Like, what??? How? I feel like I’m in a vortex. Are you in a vortex, too? Blink and you might miss it. So much for making the most of summer, or being low maintenance. I don’t know what’s going on!
What I do know is that I’m sick with a cold (and laryngitis which is like its own form of torture) and summer sickness is 10x worse than winter sickness. I don’t even want to think about goals AT ALL, but here we are, doing what we do… so let’s go!
My Google sheet tells me I only achieved 64% of my goals, which I should be happy about but honestly I thought I did better. Nevertheless, it’s okay! Considering I’ve been sick or injured for 1/3 of the month that’s pretty good.
I’m falling out of love with the personal curriculum again, to the point that I might ditch it, for now. Except for the art unit, as long as I make time for it. I fell off a little this month. I blame the addition of Junk Journal July in derailing my jewelry unit. I did make a friendship bracelet and watched some YT videos on jewelry making (and remixing) and organized my supplies, bought some critical things I was missing, but I didn’t actually make or remix anything. TBD if I’ll unofficially carry it over into August. Supposed to be doing Anatomy…
I’m not happy that I gave up on The Artist’s Way, even though it’s really not drawing me in. I thought about attempting to pick it back up in August…but I don’t know…
So, what IS in store for August?
Personal
- Self Improvement
- Read Gwyneth Paltrow’s My Father’s Daughter cookbook
- Do routines 80# of weekdays
- Health & Fitness
- Go on one anxiety adventure
- Go to the Y at least 1x on a Wednesday evening
- Use Headspace app
- Wealth Management
- Save $1500 (automated = check!)
- No spend Amazon and AmEx
- Buy more bonds to continue rebalancing portfolio
Relationships
- Friends & Family
- Lunch w/ Fran and the Moms?
- Work on basement
- Send August birthday cards
- Community
- Try new to me restaurant in town
- How can I do more of what I enjoy at work?
- Consume and participate in content
Environments
- Home & Auto
- Hall closet cleanup
- Get new toilet in powder room, and new garbage disposal
- Measure upstairs square footage, get quotes for flooring
- Digital Devices
- PARA on computer folders
- Online Presence
- Unsub from emails as needed
- Change compromised passwords
Recreation
- Hobbies
- Read 2 Lucy Score books
- Work on an altered book
- Write 1 haiku
- Experience
- See The Odyssey?
- Do 4 things from Summer fun list
- Entertainment
- Watch Office Romance
- Finish Season 4 of Emily In Paris
- Listen to 1 artist from Music Jar
Mixed Media
- Practice writing cursive s-l-o-w-l-y
- Continue using serums I have (before buying more)
- Renew Jeep registration
- Finish Summer curriculum?
- “Read” 3 Communication Arts issues
- Plan September and setup Google sheet
Projects
- Deep clean at Mom’s…
- Do 1 thing from Project Punch List
- Start Project 180!
Reading List
I ended up reading two Lucy Score books in July and started a third, so I’m a little bit ahead for my yearly goal to read her backlist. I also got my library hold on the second new KL Walther book, which was a little far fetched but still fun! I got a free Audible trial and used my first month’s credit to get Mythos by Stephen Fry (his narration is on point) because I intended to do a Greece unit this month, but TBD since the whole curriculum thing is up in the air…
On the TBR for August is:
- The Last Second Chance by Lucy Score
- Book 1 in Riley Thorn series by Lucy Score
- My Father’s Daughter by Gwyneth Paltrow
- Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi – reread
- Yes Please by Amy Poehler
- Mythos by Stephen Fry?
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron?
I’m off from my day job this week, so maybe I’ll get more of these goals accomplished just because of that. Or maybe I won’t (because, sickness). There’s already a handful that I don’t think will happen. We’ll see! I want to be okay with August being a little lax on goals. What do we think?
Are you working on goals in August?
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