#2017 goals

[darkestwings]

GUESS WHO MET THEIR GOODREADS GOAL FOR THE YEAR!!!

THAT'S RIGHT BITCHES

IT'S MEEEEEE

I HAVE OFFICIALLY READ 75 BOOKS THIS YEAR

SUCK IT 2017

[pet-diary]

I forgot to post these last year, but here was my 2017 New Year Resolutions. I’ve added a tick box for whether or not I actually achieved them. :) I’m happy to see that a lot of them have either or to fruition, or I’ve at least started them! I still have a lot of work to do in some areas, but overall, 2017 was a very productive year. :D Here’s to another productive one!

❑ Did not achieve, ⬔ Somewhat achieved, ◼ Achieved, N/A.

ACADEMIC // * ❑ Get back into learning Japanese, learn & use vocab everyday * ⬔ Learn all 1000 GRE vocab words, develop a more creative vocabulary * ❑ Take GRE prep class, get a good score on the GRE! * ⬔ Complete an internship or two (TA?) * ◼ Graduate from ASU in the fall! * ⬔ Apply for grad school

LIFE // * ❑ Start doing volunteer work again! * ◼ Join an autism group or two * ⬔ Be openly autistic – fuck worrying about what ppl will think anymore * ⬔ Make new friends, make an effort to meet ppl * ◼ Set down roots, even if you have to uproot them eventually * ◼ Take the bus, be more self-sufficient, grocery shop, run errands alone * ⬔ Learn how to talk about what you know, about yourself, & to talk in general * ⬔ Be more confident in yourself * ⬔ Be nicer, control anger better, be more empathetic & friendly * ◼ Continue with vegetarianism! * ⬔ Continue working on time management, take breaks, eat, set alarms * ◼ Look cute more often, even just around the house * ⬔ Start to love holidays again * ⬔ Go on more day & weekend trips – at least once a month go somewhere new! * ❑ Get a passport, plan a trip, travel out of the country for the first time * ❑ Go camping & hiking more often! Join a group if you have to * ❑ Push yourself to do things that scare you! Esp if it’s irrational fear * ⬔ Listen to music more often, get into new stuff * ⬔ Play video games! You don’t need an excuse to relax * ❑ Start watching movies again, the feels can be good in the long run * ⬔ Reconnect w/ movies & art that inspired you years ago

ART // * ⬔ Finish what you start, stop expecting immediate pay-off – stick with it * ⬔ Make art all the time, everyday! Don’t always try to perfect it, just make it * ⬔ Draw every single day, even if it’s just doodling * ❑ Open a PO box & make pretty mail again * ⬔ Start the ephemera shop! * ❑ Get back into your novel, 2nd draft? * ⬔ Start working on graphic novel!! Don’t let the idea die unrealized * ◼ Experiment w/ equipment & mediums, learn how to use them, develop techniques * ◼ Explore abandoned places again, take lots of photos!

PHYSICAL // * ❑ Start working out regularly, stretch everyday * ⬔ Start eating earlier in the day * ◼ Start going to therapy again * ❑ Get something to deal w/ anxiety * ◼ Go to the doctor regularly * ◼ Drink enough water everyday * ❑ Stop chewing the inside of your mouth!!!

[marvella15]

2017 Goals Wrap Up

As I’m making 2018 goals, it’s time to look back on how I did in 2017. Below are my goals and the results. Overall, feeling good!

THE RESULTS!

Do more of the following than I did in 2016:

Be active (bit of a toss-up; I was traveling and sick for a bit so I wasn’t super diligent but I also started hiking more and doing at home workouts and joined a new gym)

Drink water (YES)

Be nice to my dad (...Gonna have to try this again.)

Edit and post photos (I did edit some but didn’t post any.)

Compliment others (Getting better)

Eat fruits and veggies (Yep!)

Stretch (Half credit lol)

Tell the people I love that I love them (Actually YES ❤)

Be educated on political and world issues (It’s depressing but I’m doing it.)

Take photos of myself and family/friends when we’re out (partial credit)

Do less of the following than I did in 2016:

Be afraid (I had planned to say maybe but I did some pretty courageous things this year so I’m counting it as a win.)

Fail to pay attention to others (I did better!)

Spend money on things I don’t like (Much better! Spend money on food and you can’t lose on this one lol!)

Focus on the destination and forget to enjoy the drive (I very much enjoyed the drive, especially in Michigan.)

Also:

Travel (YES YES YES! Alaska, Canada, Niagara Falls, Michigan, Boston, Roseville, Albany, San Diego, San Jose)

Write (Omg I published multiple fics so like what even??)

Read (Probably about the same (why doesn’t goodreads count fanfic?))

Eat something new (Lots of fish, a small portion of which I liked. I also tried duck and various shellfish.)

Visit a friend out of state (YES! In Canada and Michigan.)

Meet John Barrowman (dream big!) (My friend did but I did not. Boo.)

and yeah, while I’m at it I’ll put “Meet Peter Capaldi” on here again because let’s go ahead and make that an annual thing (IT HAPPENED AGAIN YOU GUYS OMG! And he is honestly the sweetest human being alive. I still keep thinking it was a freaking dream I had but no! We chatted a few minutes and he’s just the best and also far too handsome irl. I’m still blushing.) 

[billiethepoet]

2017 Goals Wrap Up Post: This Year Was A Dumpster Fire

Yooooooooooooooooooooo, I basically did jack shit about my goals this year even though my goals were really stupid easy. I wanted to get back into good habits and that didn’t happen. Basically at all. 

But in the interest of accountability and data integrity, here’s my wrap up post.

Below the cut are my original goals and my end of year comments are in italics.

Work

Publish something. I’ve got several conference presentations in the works from the past few years so I’d really like to turn at least one of those into a peer reviewed journal article.  

          I didn’t publish anything in a peer reviewed journal but that’s still on the                table. Also, I did get two articles in the big conference proceedings. This              one gets a failed rating.

Learn R. I tried to do this on my own in 2016 but that didn’t work. It was too much too fast. I’m planning on taking a two day course in February and then I can go back to the on my own route.

          I took the two day course and basically did nothing else. I joined a ladies              R user book club a few weeks ago with some coworkers but haven’t done            anything there yet. Failed here too.

Profesh Org. Last year, I was nominated to the leadership council of my profesh org but I didn’t make it down to the final two candidates to run for election. I’m nominated again this year and hopefully I’ll make it to the election, win the election, and then be able to do some cool work with my big profesh org.

          I did make it to the election! I was one of the two final candidates chosen              by the executive council, but I didn’t win. That wasn’t really in my control              so I’ll call this one partially achieved. 

House

Bathrooms. I need to do the tiniest, smallest reno on all of our bathrooms. I only say reno because I want to tear out the sink and backsplash in one and replace them. And then all three need painted. I phrase this as if I’ll be doing it, but I’ll just be paying someone to do it.

Porch-pacolypse. I have a dream. A dream to wrap my awkwardly long concrete stoop around the front side of my house and build a great big front porch. There will be ceiling fans and comfy chairs and maybe even a hammock for reading pleasure.

          Okay, so neither of these got done because we discovered our basement            wall was moving. We had to get some landscaping done and drains                      installed to help prevent that from getting worse. Failed here, but some                needed house stuff got done instead. 

Personal

Vacation. I want to go a big vacation again. We didn’t go on a vacation last year because Mr. Mac switched jobs and needs some time to accrue PTO. There’s talk of China with some friends but I’m not sure that’s going to work out. I just want to go somewhere cool though.

          We didn’t do a big vacation but we did go to see Hamilton in Chicago                   over a long weekend so I’ll say this is achieved. 

Will. Mr. Mac and I need to be adults and get our wills and all that paperwork in order.

          We started the process on this! We have an appointment with a lawyer to            finish it up! A tentative achieved here. 

Con chair. I’m chairing a small sci-fi convention in Jan 2018, so all my work will really be in 2017. I need to find a Guest of Honor stat. I’ve asked two people already and have had no luck.

          Con is in two weeks and I am stoked! I got two bangin’ guests of honor                and the events we have planned are dope. Achieved! 

Savings. Save some money. The amount will depend on the fanciness of the vacation and if porch-pacolyse actually happens.

          Failed, but we’re financially good so whatever. 

Writing. I’m going to finish this Hobbit fan fic that I’ve been working on. I quite like it. There’s lots of boning. I’m also going to resubmit my first manuscript somewhere and finish the second one.

          That Hobbit fic got done and I was happy with it. I also wrote a couple of             Sherlock fics and wrote Star Trek for the first time. I got my first                             manuscript out again and accepted at @carnationbooks . I’ve spent a                   good portion of the year editing and rewriting it, which has been awesome.           I didn’t finish a second manuscript but I’ve got a fair number of words                  down on a couple projects. Achieved, suckas. 

Work It Out, Gert

Yoga. Go at least twice a week. That’s the minimum goal. My studio gives bands, like those rubbery bracelet things, for total classes taken. I’m somewhere between silver (325 classes) and gold (500 classes), but definitely closer to the 325 milestone. My stretch goal will be to get the gold band. I don’t know if that’s even possible but whatever.

Run. Run twice a week. I’m also going to go back to my 2014 (I think?) goal of running a race a month, just to keep myself motivated. I won’t be as strict as I was in 2014 though. If I miss one, eh. It’ll be fine. I probably won’t document them one by one like I used to either. Just the big one. Which is another sub-goal under running: run a spring and fall half marathon.

          The only thing I did here was run my second half marathon in the spring              and finished in 2:58ish. I didn’t get back into regular work out habits at all.            So, failed. 

[kaywillruns]

2017 Goals

Since the combination of illness and pregnancy is keeping me kind of attached to my couch, I figured I’d finally look back at my 2017 goals in preparation for making my 2018 goals.

2017 Goals

Run a 5k

Run a 10k (run/walk if necessary)

Read 16 books (limiting this because of school)

Get As in my 4 pre-reqs

Determine my last 2 recommenders from those 4 classes

Get pregnant!

Finish the 10k running program

Stay active when pregnant!

Honestly, I’m pretty proud of myself this year. 

1. Run a 5k

I achieved this early by running in the Frozen 5k in downtown Cincinnati in February. I crushed my time goal so much that I almost cried once I realized I was near the end of the course. It was awesome and incredibly motivating. It also wasn’t anywhere near as cold as it often is according to many of the other runners. I hope to go to that race again and maybe do the 10k.

2. Run a 10k (run/walk if necessary)

I signed up for the Flying Pig 10k. My goal was to be under 1:15 and not walk. I achieved both of those, but it was awful. I know digestive issues while running are fairly common, but I had never had any issues so I think there must have been something else going on. I felt sick very early into the race. My GPS also messed up and told me I was a mile from the finish line when I had at least 2 if not 3 left and totally messed up my pace. I felt sick the rest of the day. But, I achieved my goals and left proud of it. 

Oh, also, I didn’t know it at the time but I was pregnant. So maybe that’s why I felt awful! But now I can tell baby girl that I carried her across my first 10k finish line.

3. Read 16 books

I’ve been really up and down with my reading this year, but managed to read a lot more than I expected to considering I spent half of the year in school. I’ve completed 21 books and have 3 I did not finish for various reasons. I intend to finish 2 of them, but I just wasn’t that in to the 3rd one. I killed this goal!

4. Get As in my pre-reqs.

I did this! The first class of Anatomy & Physiology got a little dicey at the end but I have all As on my transcript. 

5. Determine my last 2 recommenders from those classes

Also did this. The two professors I had for the two sessions of Anatomy & Physiology were happy to recommend me to the program at Xavier. 

6. Get Pregnant!

Success. Now 37 weeks pregnant and so incredibly done. I had hoped to get pregnant a month or two earlier but this works out so well too and I’m so thankful to both get pregnant and on a timeline that makes things work for school. 

7. Finish the 10k training program

I think I did this? I ran a 10k, so probably? Haha. 

8. Stay active while pregnant

The one I failed to do. When I first got pregnant, I was nauseated about 100% of the time and it was so hot and humid that I just couldn’t get myself to do it. As I got farther along, i was both limited by my early decision to not work out and my own general laziness. But now I’m itching to get back out running!

Goals for 2018 coming soon!

[myaffairwithnabokov]

2017 GOALS

1. Focus on writing I’m going to shift away from having a reading goal this year. I want to really focus more on writing, and read more leisurely, whether it be re-reading favourite books (which I haven’t done in a while) or buying books at random.

UM did this not quite happen. I started writing like 3 different things seriously and completed nothing. Also, no reading goal was not good for me.

2. Eat well I’m dairy free like 90% of the time and overall vegan like 80% of the time because I mostly eat fruits/veggies and carbs. I want to continue eating mostly plant based, and perhaps try being 100% vegan for a while (maybe do the 30-day vegan challenge and see how my body reacts?)

PLOT TWIST, I ate more vegetables and fruit than ever and became 100% vegan since July!

3. Exercise regularly Once my gym is done I know I’ll want to work out more. Also important to go on walks when the weather is nice. I don’t want to have strict goal with exercise, but I’d like to be active 3-4 times a week in some way.

Again, I usually work out Jan-March and then have a break until like Oct/Nov. But.....I barely exercised past March. Need to get back into it.

4. Movies Instead of trying to reach 52 new to me movies, I’m going to make a short list (Aviator, The Thin Man series, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland x2, From Here to Eternity, etc.) of movies I’ve been meaning to watch and watch those.

Did not watch Aviator or the Thin Man series but meh. I feel like this goal was blah.

5. Career I need to figure out where I want to go in terms of work (location, role, etc.). Also want to be making more money - I have a review in 2017 which is where you get a raise but if I end up switching jobs this year I want to be making more than I do now.

I’m still at the same job (over a year, a new record) but exciting changes have been planned for 2018! I got the top raise possible in 2017 for my one year anniversary as well.

6. Socializing Hang out/go out with friends at least once a week! And maybe visit my family more LOL

Why do I always say this kind of stuff, knowing damn well I am a compete hermit at heart? I think I hung out with people like once a month lmao but saw my family about once a week at least!

7. Be less selfish Find 1 or 2 causes and donate regularly. Volunteer. Ideally, these would revolve around books/nature and helping women.

Only did one tree planting but donated more than ever before! I have a lot of volunteering and donating planned for 2018.

[riffatmatinpoetry]

I'm going to end this year right by keeping the promises I made to myself in January.

Affirmation of the day.

[doyoueverwonderwhy]

12*/12!

I made a goal at the beginning of this year to run a race every month, fully expecting to make it maybe to April. Today I ran number 12. I’m actually really proud of myself - this goal forced me to be more aware of my running, and inspired my new goal of 500 miles this year (I’m ~55 away after today). 

I AM A RUNNER.

*I have to throw an asterisk next to this one in the record book - I registered to run the Jingle Bell Run that was held yesterday morning, but had to attend my grandmother’s funeral instead. So I put on my JBR shirt this afternoon and ran my fastest 3.1 to date, though it technically wasn’t a proper race.