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one little word® | for february 2017

 

Usually once a month I set goals.  Well I say that, I just went over my blog and seen I'd skipped July and August for 2016, dived into September 2016 with goals and nothing since.  I started thinking to myself, do I blog my goals because I feel like I have to, do I even want goals for 2017?  My one little word® for 2017 is FOCUS.  Then all of a sudden I got this idea.  Instead of posting goals every month, I'm going to FOCUS on a monthly blog post based on my one little word®.  With that being in mind it could be something I want to focus on more, something I'm currently focusing on and even shifting my focus. 

Today I'm putting all my focus onto letting go of what others think.  I've mentioned this at the start of the year and maybe you are over it and I absolutely get that.  But what I keep seeing on mainly instagram, [favourite social media EVA], is a bunch of amazingly talented ladies letting what others think and say, give them self doubt.  These ladies then doubt their ability, their work they share, their life snippets they add in and worst of all they judge themselves.  YES I'm guilty of this, YES I've started something, shared it, announced it and then failed and then I worry about what people will think.  Hey, at least I tried right?  YES I've judged myself many of times, OH so many.  YES I've overly focused on someone that doesn't even know and you know what?  I bet they have someone they focus on and think is better than them and has it all sorted out.  We need to FOCUS on ourselves, on our family and friends, on the community that honestly I absolutely love this crafty community and to stop focusing on the negative or caring what others think.  As long as you are happy, or excited or sharing what you love to do, does it matter what others really think?  REALLY?  What about all the people cheering you on?  Shouldn't we be aiming our focus on the wonderful supportive people?  I mean don't you think it would be a boring world if we were all the same?

I want you to know that you ARE amazing!

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goals for september | 2016

Goals are something I set monthly, but the past two months I didn't.  Let's call it winter blues, haha.  I find myself not really motivated during the colder months.  Am I alone here?  In my monthly goals blog post I always share my goals and then the goals I achieved in the previous month, here goes.

GOALS FOR SEPTEMBER :

• Read a book.
• Knit a cup cozy.
• Get back into walking everyday.
• Work on finishing my second knitted blanket.
• Work on finishing two granny squares for the girls blanket.
• Finish knitting 20+ coasters to send out to friends as planned for last year.

I've set mainly crafty goals as this is 90% of what my blog is about.  For the goals for June I almost thought I had most ticked then I realised I did some , but not in June.  Still counts right?

GOALS FROM JUNE :

• Clean out hallway closet. TICK
• Send out 3 happy mail cards. TICK
• Finish cleaning out craftroom. TICK [but feels like I can do it again].
• Knit girls a scarf for school each. FAIL
• Get blog posts schedule for month. FAIL
• Start 1 new routine and stick with it. FAIL
• Share 5 weeks of project life album 2015. FAIL [shared all in August].
• Share 2 weeks of project life week/s for 2016. FAIL
• Share 1-2 months of Project 'my' Life on my blog. FAIL [shared all in August].
• Work on finishing two granny squares for the girls blanket. HALF TICK.
• Finish knitting 20+ coasters to send out to friends as planned for last year. HALF TICK.

goals for june | 2016

 

GOALS FOR JUNE :

• Clean out hallway closet.
• Send out 3 happy mail cards.
• Finish cleaning out craftroom.
• Knit girls a scarf for school each.
• Get blog posts schedule for month.
• Start 1 new routine and stick with it.
• Share 5 weeks of project life album 2015.
• Share 2 weeks of project life week/s for 2016.
• Share 1-2 months of Project 'my' Life on my blog.
• Work on finishing two granny squares for the girls blanket.
• Finish knitting 20+ coasters to send out to friends as planned for last year.

June I've decided to set more goals  While most are craft or something along those lines I do set myself personal goals, but they are just that, personal.  These are goals I aim to get done by the end of the month.  Sometimes I forget about them mid month and remember just before the end of the month and sometimes I tick most off within the first week.  It's still fun for me to set these goals.

GOALS FROM MAY :

• Send out 2 Happy Mail cards. TICK.
• Blog at least 2-3 times a week. TICK.
• Start 1 new routine and stick with it. NOPE, routines are a little harder to keep than I thought, for me.
• Share 1 week from project life album 2015. TICK.
• Share 1-2 weeks of project life week/s for 2016. TICK.
• Share 1 month from my Project 'my' Life from 2016 on my blog. TICK.
• Work on finishing another two granny squares for the girls blanket. TICK, worked on it, but didn't finish.

goals for may | 2016

GOALS FOR MAY :

• Send out 2 Happy Mail cards.
• Blog at least 2-3 times a week.
• Start 1 new routine and stick with it.
• Share 1 week from project life album 2015.
• Share 1-2 weeks of project life week/s for 2016.
• Share 1 month from my Project 'my' Life from 2016 on my blog.
• Work on finishing another two granny squares for the girls blanket.

It seems that with the colder weather I am less than motivated to stick to my goals.  Something I want to work on for sure, with the colder weather coming and plans for things ahead.

GOALS FROM APRIL :

• Send out two Happy Mail cards. TICK.
• Start walking again, slacked off lately. NOPE, SLACKER!
• Share 2 weeks of project life week/s for 2016.TICK.
• Share 1 month from my Project 'my' Life from 2016 on my blog. NOPE.
• Work on keeping our business book work up to date now that I have it there. TICK

goals for april | 2016

GOALS FOR APRIL :

• Send out two Happy Mail cards.
• Start walking again, slacked off lately.
• Share 2 weeks of project life week/s for 2016.
• Share 1 month from my Project 'my' Life from 2016 on my blog.
• Work on keeping our business book work up to date now that I have it there.

 Can I say that for the first time in what feels like forever I am up to date more so with my husbands business book work than ever and it feels amazing and freeing, guilt be gone.

GOALS FROM MARCH :

• Send out 2-4 Happy Mail cards. TICK
• Start 1 new routine and stick with it. TICK - involves a planner.
• Share three scrapbook layouts on my blog. NOPE, shared on my instagram instead.
• Share 1-2 weeks of project life week/s for 2016. TICK, sure did!  Shared 6 weeks worth.
• Share 2 months from my Project 'my' Life from 2015 on my blog. TICK, shared 3 months.
• Work on finishing another two granny squares for the girls blanket. NOPE, did two rows, surely that counts?

goals for march | 2016

 

GOALS FOR MARCH :

• Send out 2-4 Happy Mail cards.
• Start 1 new routine and stick with it.
• Share three scrapbook layouts on my blog.
• Share 1-2 weeks of project life week/s for 2016.
• Share 2 months from my Project 'my' Life from 2015 on my blog.
• Work on finishing another two granny squares for the girls blanket.

 Can I go with February being smaller, and therefore I don't get as long, haha!?  Kidding.  Goals from February crossed off and failed.

GOALS FOR FEBRUARY :

• Send out 2-4 Happy Mail cards. TICK
• Start a routine and stick with it daily. HALF TICK, haha.
• Share 3 scrapbook layouts on my blog. TICK
• Share 1-2 weeks of project life week/s for 2016. TICK shared 1
• Clean out my wardrobe and donate a bunch of my clothes. TICK, felt great.
• Share 2 months from my Project 'my' Life from 2015 on my blog. Only shared one.
• Actually finish making a herb garden from pallets seen in cafe, Melbourne. NOPE.
• Work on finishing an unfinished project I've started and not finish and share on blog. STARTED on one.

goals for february | 2016

GOALS FOR FEBRUARY :

• Send out 2-4 Happy Mail cards.
• Start a routine and stick with it daily.
• Share 3 scrapbook layouts on my blog.
• Share 1-2 weeks of project life week/s for 2016.
• Clean out my wardrobe and donate a bunch of my clothes.
• Share 2 months from my Project 'my' Life from 2015 on my blog.
• Actually finish making a herb garden from pallets seen in cafe, Melbourne.
• Work on finishing an unfinished project I've started and not finish and share on blog.

I guess you could say I sort of cheated with my February list as most are goals from last month.  But something to also keep me going and my blog content rolling with creative shares.  Which is something I want to do for 2016.  The herb garden I think may be one of those, shows up every month sort of goals, haha!

GOALS FOR JANUARY :

• Send out 2-4 Happy Mail cards. TICK
• Share 3 scrapbook layouts on my blog. TICK
• Share 1-2 weeks of project life week/s for 2016. TICK
• Share 2 months from my Project 'my' Life from 2015 on my blog. FAIL
• Actually finish making a herb garden from pallets seen in cafe, Melbourne. FAIL
• Be prepared for back to school, and not rush around a few days before girls are due back! TICK

 

goals for january and intentions for 2016

I thought I would kill two birds with one stone in this blog post, by sharing my intentions for 2016 and my goals for January while also sharing what my goals from December 2015 were.  I'm not sure I've really set intentions before on my blog and I'm not calling them 'resolutions'.  At our new years party, while wishing people a happy new year, I would ask what their 'goal' was for 2016 and they all loved the question.  Mainly because it's a goal, not a resolution.  For some reason I think resolution feels so set in stone.  Once said, you HAVE to get it done.  Goals and intentions are just that, a goal and an intention.  NOW that I've blabbered on about that, let me share with you my intentions for 2016 :

Blog 3-5 days a week

Make 2-4 diy projects a month

Go camping for Easter long weekend

Make my herb garden and actually keep it alive

Walk 1-2 times a day and make my goal/s set on my fitbit

Work on project life for 2016 and set some consistency into it, so I'm not falling behind

Get caught up with book work by end of January and stay up to date all year.  I'm already there!

GOALS FOR JANUARY :

• Send out 2-4 Happy Mail cards.
• Share 3 scrapbook layouts on my blog.
• Share 1-2 weeks of project life week/s for 2016.
• Share 2 months from my Project 'my' Life from 2015 on my blog.
• Actually finish making a herb garden from pallets seen in cafe, Melbourne.
• Be prepared for back to school, and not rush around a few days before girls are due back!

Goals for December, what was I thinking?  Our December felt like it flew by and the fact that our camping trip was bought forward made it feel like it went by even faster with even more to plan and not just Christmas parties, concerts and presents.  So I'm not surprised as I was looking them over for this blog post I was going to be typing a lot of 'fails'.

GOALS FROM DECEMBER :

• Get ORGANISED! - Tick.
• Send out 3 ABM cards. - Tick.
• Send out 10 Christmas cards. - Fail.
• Share 3 scrapbook layouts on my blog. - Fail, shared 2, I was close.
• Share 3 project life weeks made via app or not. - Fail.
• Share 2 months from my Project 'my' Life album on my blog. - Fail, only shared 1.
• Finish making a herb garden from pallets seen in cafe, Melbourne. - Fail
• Keep up with two December Daily albums that I plan to make for gifts. - I'm not calling this a fail just yet as I'm still working on them.

goals for december

 

GOALS FOR DECEMBER :

• Get ORGANISED!
• Send out 3 ABM cards.
• Send out 10 Christmas cards.
• Share 3 scrapbook layouts on my blog.
• Share 3 project life weeks made via app or not.
• Share 2 months from my Project 'my' Life album on my blog.
• Finish making a herb garden from pallets seen in cafe, Melbourne.
• Keep up with two December Daily albums that I plan to make for gifts.

 

GOALS FROM NOVEMBER :

• Get ORGANISED!  Somewhat
• Send out 3 ABM cards. Tick
• Send out 10 Christmas cards. Tick
• Share 6 scrapbook layouts on my blog. Tick
• Paint the top of my kitchen table white. 
• Have Christmas shopping done mid November. I've only got to pick up a few laybys so I'm calling this done, Tick!
• Share my #30minutesfor30days on my blog Wednesday. Blog break so Fail.
• Make a herb garden from pallets seen in cafe, Melbourne. Started, half done.
• Share 2 months from my Project 'my' Life album on my blog.

goals for november

I almost feel like breaking into song, singing, it's the final count down....   We are officially on the count down to Christmas.  I'm NOT ready, wasn't only Christmas like three months ago?

GOALS FOR NOVEMBER :

• Get ORGANISED!
• Send out 3 ABM cards.
• Send out 10 Christmas cards.
• Share 6 scrapbook layouts on my blog.
• Paint the top of my kitchen table white. 
• Have Christmas shopping done mid November.
• Share my #30minutesfor30days on my blog Wednesday.
• Make a herb garden from pallets seen in cafe, Melbourne.
• Share 2 months from my Project 'my' Life album on my blog.

GOALS FROM OCTOBER :

• Get Organised - Slowly.
• Send out 3 ABM cards. - Tick
• Share 3 DIY projects on my blog. - Nope, too busy scrapping
• Share 3 scrapbook layouts on my blog. - Yes, 6 in fact
• Share my #31minutesfor31days on my blog Wednesday.  - Yup
• Share 3 months from my Project 'my' Life album on my blog. - 2, close
• Have at least one granny square done to go on my girls blanket. - Nope
• Clean out the middle wardrobe aka don't know where it goes shove it in there wardrobe. - Nope

goals for october

September was a bit of a was for me mid month.  So I'm not being really hard on myself for all the 'fails' in my September list, instead I'm moving forward and looking at my October list and going for it.  New month, fresh start.

GOALS FOR OCTOBER :

• Get ORGANISED!
• Send out 3 ABM cards.
• Share 3 DIY projects on my blog.
• Share 3 scrapbook layouts on my blog.
• Share my #31minutesfor31days on my blog Wednesday.
• Share 3 months from my Project 'my' Life album on my blog.
• Have at least one granny square done to go on my girls blanket.
• Clean out the middle wardrobe aka don't know where it goes shove it in there wardrobe.

GOALS FROM SEPTEMBER :

• Send out three ABM cards. - Tick
• Work at getting more organised. - Fail
• Share three DIY projects on my blog. - Bummer Fail
• Share two scrapbook layouts on my blog. - Tick, can I get points for more than two, haha?
• Share two weeks of Project Life spreads on my blog. - Fail
• Get Luke's August accounts done and sent by mid month. - Fail [due to system error so technically not my fault this month].
• Keep up and blog with the blog-tember challenge by Bailey. - Fail
• Share one month from my Project 'my' Life album on my blog. - Fail
• Have at least one granny square done to go on my girls blanket. - Fail 
• Clean out the middle wardrobe aka don't know where it goes shove it in here wardrobe. - Fail

goals for september 2015

My goals for September seem to be very "blog" orientated this month and about what I want to share.  I am still joining in with the 'blog-tember' challenge.  I've decided to blog them in the afternoon, making it almost on time with the people in the US.

GOALS FOR SEPTEMBER :

• Send out three ABM cards.
• Work at getting more organised.
• Share three DIY projects on my blog.
• Share two scrapbook layouts on my blog.
• Share two weeks of Project Life spreads on my blog.
• Get Luke's August accounts done and sent by mid month.
• Keep up and blog with the blog-tember challenge by Bailey.
• Share one month from my Project 'my' Life album on my blog.
• Have at least one granny square done to go on my girls blanket.
• Clean out the middle wardrobe aka don't know where it goes shove it in here wardrobe.

GOALS FROM AUGUST :

• Send out three ABM cards. - Tick
  
• Share three scrapbook layouts. - Tick
  
• Share four weeks of Project Life spreads. - Fail, only shared the one week.
• Get July accounts done and sent by mid month. - Fail, wait after mid month, always late.
• Have two, 20 row granny squares finished for blanket. - Nope, didn't even touch this blanket.
• Clean out the girls play room, HUGE clean out of un-used toys. - Tick, done!
• Clean out the middle wardrobe aka don't know where it goes shove it in here wardrobe. - Fail, it's a dreaded job.

goals for august 2015

GOALS FOR AUGUST :

• Send out three ABM cards.
• Share three scrapbook layouts.
• Share four weeks of Project Life spreads.
• Get July accounts done and sent by mid month.
• Have two, 20 row granny squares finished for blanket.
• Clean out the girls play room, HUGE clean out of un-used toys.
• Clean out the middle wardrobe aka don't know where it goes shove it in here wardrobe.

 

GOALS FROM JULY :

• Share two scrapbook layout - Yes done, tick.
• Send out three ABM cards - Tick.
• Share 4 weeks of Project Life - Tick.
• Get June accounts done and sent - Tick.
• Have all book work for the last months - Half, so half a tick.
• Have two, 20 row granny squares finished. - One and 5 rows left on second one, so another half a tick.

 

goals for july 2015

GOALS FOR JULY :

• Share two scrapbook layout.
• Send out three ABM cards.
• Share 4 weeks of Project Life.
• Get June accounts done and sent.
• Have all book work for the last months.
• Have two, 20 row granny squares finished.

GOALS FOR JUNE :

• Blog more! - Yes I sure did get back into my blogging and sharing of Project Life spreads.
• Share a scrapbook layout. - Yup, two in fact.
• Send out three ABM cards. - Made sure I did this the moment the box showed up and not the last couple of days before the end of the month.
• Get project life up to date. - 2 weeks off.
• Get May accounts done and sent. - Yup and earlier than usual, SAY WHAT?
• All bookwork up to date.  I can do this! - Almost, basically.
• Have two, 20 row granny squares finished. - YES, I only started this in the last week and a half having completely forgot and I did it!  

 

goals for june 2015

 

GOALS FOR JUNE :

• Blog more!
• Share a scrapbook layout.
• Send out three ABM cards.
• Get project life up to date.
• Get May accounts done and sent.
• All bookwork up to date.  I can do this!
• Have two, 20 row granny squares finished.

GOALS FROM MAY :

• Make a coaster. - NO
• Send out three ABM cards. - TICK
• Get project life up to date. - No, but almost, two week out.
• Get May accounts done and sent. My guess is I meant April, being we are in May, so TICK!
• All bookwork up to date by end of May. Almost, I'd say 70%
• Have six 20 row granny squares finished. - I think I was giving myself a bit of credit here, this was never going to happen, I've done 2, haha.