What About Those Quests For 2014? Week #1

About a week or so ago I sat down and wrote out some major quests I wanted to accomplish in 2014. Then I wrote out specific goals to help me accomplish those quests. Today is my first post to track my progress. I will break these down a bit differently for tracking purposes.

Daily Goals:

1.  Shine the sink every night before going to bed.
2. Swish and swipe my bathroom daily (hair off the floor too).
3. Swish and swipe Gary's bathroom on even days.
4. Do one load of laundry daily, including drying, folding and putting it away.
5. Clean off the hot spots.
6. Deal with the mail every day.
7. Read 30 minutes daily from a non-fiction book. 
8. Drink water and plenty of it

Weekly Goals:

1. Contact A.J. and Daniel at least once a week.
2. Blog once a week, even if it is just a partial blog that needs more work before it is posted.
3. Once a week, update the orange notebook with money spent during the previous week.
4. Get your online Reading Comprehension class DONE! Do at least two lessons a week.
5. Get the Reading Buddy lessons done. One lesson complete per week starting Jan. 6th.
6. Eat to be healthy, eat Primal 80% of the time, but make some conscious choices to enjoy the foods you don't typically eat.
7. Prepare one new recipe weekly and post it on your blog.
8. Do a 15 minute (minimum) Yoga workout at least 3 times weekly.
9. Running: Keep running in your fat-burning zone (HR 126-135). One run per week can be at a comfortable pace.

 Monthly Goals

1. Have a "date" two times a month with Gary. One time I plan/one time he plans.
2. Send two cards to friends or family monthly.
3. Call two people monthly just to say hi.
4. Scrapbook once a month.
5. Rubberstamp once a month.
6. Work on a "you've been putting it off" project once a month.

Special Goals

1. Set up a "Rewards" account ($20 monthly). Rewards can only be purchased if earned and if there is money for them. 
2. Apply Quality Matters to your online Reading Comprehension class. Due date August 1, 2014.
3.  Develop a Reading Buddies class.
4. Develop a combined Reading Comp/General Studies course class.
5. Complete your first Nerd Fitness Challenge starting Jan. 6th. Continue to level up my fitness by doing the challenges throughout the year (complete at least 4 NF Challenges in 2014).
6. Complete at least the first level of the Dumbbell Workouts (Beta version) in Nerd Fitness Academy.

REVIEW OF MY GOALS: WEEK #1

Daily Goals

• I pretty much nailed these except reading from a non-fiction book 30 minutes daily. However, I spent a great deal of time reading through educational information as I was prepping my Intro. to Education materials.
• I am VERY PROUD of the fact that I shined my kitchen sink every night except Friday when I went to bed super early (6:00PM) because I wasn't  feeling well. Shining my kitchen sink means washing ALL the dishes  and cleaning off ALL the kitchen counters. Preparing meals is much easier when you are starting with a clean area. 
• As I was focusing on completing all these daily goals I kept thinking about what is going to happen when I get super busy, because it is going to happen, and I don't get some of them done. I came up with a plan, NEVER SKIP A DAILY GOAL TWO DAYS IN A ROW!

Weekly Goals

• I didn't do as well with the weekly goals as I did the daily. 
• I did not get any online Reading Comp. lessons done, but the class got cancelled so it wasn't a priority. 
• I didn't get a Reading Buddies lesson planned.
•  I need to write my work goals down at work somewhere so they are visible. I have all my goals written out at home on a board that I look at several times a day. I need to do the same thing at work, it will keep me more on track.
• I only did 2 yoga workouts (one of them 30 minutes long) instead of 3.
• I didn't run at all, as a matter of fact after Monday of last week I didn't do any of my regular workouts because I was staying up too late working on teacher stuff. Last week was an exception, exercise is a part of who I am, ignoring it completely doesn't happen often.