My Personal Goals Progress Update for May 2019
As you know, I set, go public on and report my personal goals progress annually. This is an exercise I have been doing since 2015 and as a result I have seen a significant improvement in my achievements and in the areas of my life where I choose to focus. You can click these links to read My 2018 Goals and my monthly progress updates for 2018 if you want to know how things went last year 🙂 (it wasn’t plain sailing!).
As in previous years, I’ve used the Wheel of Life template to get a visual representation of where I am now. This helps me prioritise the areas that need most attention or that I’m most drawn to, as trying to work on things that don’t interest me or serve no real purpose will see my motivation dwindle to nothing very quickly!
For those of you who are familiar with my 2018 goals, then you will see some common ground here. Some goals, although progressed, weren’t completed last year, so I’ve picked them up again for further action in 2019.
I’ve also considered which goals are public and which ones will remain private, so even though you see a list of goals here, I also have a number of other goals that (for now, at least) will remain private.
So here we go… 🙂
The Summary Table
Here’s a summary of progress so far:
Fun and Travel
In early May we took our planned trip to Rome. Wow! What an amazing place to visit! There’s history, sights to see and excellent food to eat around every corner! It’s probably one of the best city hops we’ve done so far and we definitely intend returning.
While we were there we visited the Vatican, The Forum and The Coloseum. They were all awesome! We also enjoyed a wander around taking in the shops and history, cobbled streets and river walks. If I have one criticism, it’s that there is just so much to see and do! But hey, that just means that we need to go back…and I can’t wait!
Our next trip is to London and that’s very soon 🙂 ! Can’t wait!
Here are our travel plans for 2019:
~> Venice – Complete!
~> Knaresborough, Yorkshire – Complete!
~> Rome – Complete!
~> London & Show – Booked
~> Family holiday to Spain – Booked
~> Stratford Upon Avon – Booked
Health and Fitness
To Weight 9 1/2 stone (133lbs)
I’m carrying on plugging away at my weight loss goal. This month it’s one whole pound that’s come off!! I can now see a pattern emerging where I lose weight early in the month, then gain, then lose again and just manage to lose a little more than the gain. It’s a frustrating journey, but at least overall it’s in the right direction.
I don’t think our trip to Rome helped this goal much!!
To Join and Regularly Attend A Yoga Class
I’ve decided to put attending an actual yoga class on hold for the time being. Right now I’m making an effort to get outside more and do more walking. I’m currently managing around 40,000 – 50,000 steps per week, which isn’t too bad considering I spend most of my day sitting at a desk.
Achieve Your Best Life
Publish 1 Blog per Week
This is complete for May and you can see or click and read from the list below!
1 – My Goals Progress Update for April 2019
2 – Is The Decision Risky or Brave
3 – How To Make Yourself Do Something Even When You Don’t Want To <<– most popular post this month!
4 – How Can I Change My Life?
To Create and Run 1 or More Workshop(s)
As we’re now heading into the main holiday period of the year, I’ve decided to hold further progress on this for a month or two with a view to holding a workshop in September. I think this will sit well with the feeling of holidays being over with and it being time to get back to business.
To Increase Total Follower Numbers Across All Media
Follower numbers at 30th April – 1,424
Follower numbers at 31st May – 1,430
Complete Overhaul of my Website Including New Theme
The tidying up continues (I seem to discover new, useful functionality as I go along), so will keep chipping away at it. But as far as the goal is concerned, this is now complete! (Reported last month.)
Personal Growth
Create A Vision Board in Support of my Goals
This is now complete! I love vision boards, so this has been a fun task to do! (Reported last month.)
Read A Minimum of 18 Books
I’ve finished reading or listening to (via Audible) four books so far in 2019, with a few more in progress.
Books completed in 2019
> Black Hole Focus
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> Atomic Habits
> The Miracle Equation
Attend (virtually or in person) at least 1 course in support of my goals
At the end of 2018 I started an online course about course creation and have continued with it into 2019. This course is now complete!
Contribution (Environmental)
To Set Aside Part of the Garden and Grow Some Veggies
Not started yet.
Home Environment
To Re-Decorate & Furnish Two Rooms (Conservatory & Living Room)
Not started yet.
To Continue and Complete My Garden Makeover
The garden makeover is continuing. More hiring of skips and much digging has ensued. Some of the patio stones have been jetted-washed and are looking much better, but overall it still looks pretty awful, but that’s to be expected.
Hopefully over the coming weeks, things will begin to improve 😉 !
Here’s a recent picture!
Family and Friends
To Log Meet-Ups and Birthdays Remembered
• Meet-ups: (2)
• Birthdays remembered (0); Missed (1) 🙁
Completed Goals
~ > We’ve been to Venice, Knaresborough and Rome 🙂
~ > All planned March, April and May blog posts published 🙂
~ > Overhaul of website = done 🙂
~ > Vision Board has been completed 🙂
A pretty good month. A fabulous trip to Rome and ongoing progress on most goals with others awaiting their turn. Onward now to June and reaching the half-way point of the year!
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