Friday Five | Midyear goal check-in 

I know, I know, we’re little over the halfway mark of this year already, but it occurred to me just now that I had set some tentative goals guidelines for this year and that it might be a good idea to check in. Which means, I had to dig through my archives and find the post where I listed those goals (and see what they actually were, haha!) and figure out if I was brave enough to publicly share here how I have been doing (or if I should just let sleeping dogs lie and just pretend that post never happened.)

I am not really this great with new year’s resolutions and the like (which doesn’t mean I don’t have goals I am working towards), but I do like list-making and crossing off of things… so I guess, this is where these two meet.

Well, turns out, I am actually not doing all that bad either, so of course, I am going to share the status quo with you guys, because a) I don’t feel too embarrassed and b) maybe this will hold me accountable, too, going forward.

1. Fill a jar with notes of happiness. Yes. J and I have been writing down one happy thought for the week every Sunday for the last 28 weeks. I hope we can keep this up, this is really fun and I can’t wait to read through all of them at the end of the year.

2. Run 1000 miles. On track. Well, actually I am a little bit behind. My tracker stands at 460 miles, but I think that I might still be able to catch up if I set my mind to it. I was a bit derailed by my ankle pain and didn’t run as much as scheduled for a couple of weeks.

3. Cross train. Kinda. I definitely did more cross-training than before, but I could still be more diligent. Oh yeah, and have I mentioned yoga lately? I definitely should go back to yoga.

4. Read 25 books. Done. As of right now, I have read 42 books and I don’t even know myself anymore. Last year, I didn’t think it was possible to fit more reading into my week, but I am so happy that I am making more time for books again.

5. Invest some time in my Etsy shop. Nope. Big fat fail so far. I had a handful of orders in the first half of this year and designed a Thank you-card for a wedding, but that’s pretty much it. My creative juices seem to be dried up currently. Sigh. Maybe they’ll come back to me in the second half of the year? One can hope.

How are you doing with your goals so far?

I am linking up with  Running on Happy and Fairytales and Fitness for the Friday Five 2.0 Linkup

  1. I love your jar full of happiness idea! I bet they will be so much fun to read through at the end of the year.

    This post prompted me to check in on my goals. I set 8 this year and have reached 4 of them so far, so I feel like I’m right on track!

    1. Seems like you’re on track! :)

  2. Your jar full of happiness is such a great idea! I might borrow that idea from you :)

    A mid-year check in for goals is great. I’m doing okay with most of my goals so far this year, so I’m glad to be on the right track1

    1. The jar of happiness idea is something I wanted to do for a while and so far, we’ve really stuck with it… can’t wait for the end of the year to read all the positive thoughts ;)

  3. I didn’t really make goals for the year except for some house projects I wanted done and I did complete those.

    Thanks for linking up!

    1. House projects are huge goals!

  4. That happiness jar is such a great idea! I should do that for a month this year as part of my happiness project and then should make it a goal to do that next year.

    I’m doing pretty good on my goals. The first was to plan a wedding and not lose ourselves in the process and we definitely accomplished that! I didn’t LOVE planning the wedding but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it might be (except tracking down RSVPs – that was not fun at all!). My 2nd goal is to read 52 books, including 6 I own. Like you, I’m doing really well on that goal as I have read 50 books. I think I have only read 1 book I own, though, so I need to work on that aspect of the goal. And my last goal is to have a shouldless day/month and I’ve managed to do that!

    Nice work on your goals so far this year! I am not the best at looking back at mine but I kind of set the bar low this year since I knew the first 6 months of the year would be consumed by wedding planning!

    1. Glad to hear you’re doing well on your goals as well… I can imagine that getting the wedding out of the way without a glitch was HUGE! :)

  5. You are doing amazingly, San! Nice job on your goals – especially the reading goal. You blew that goal out of the water halfway through the year!

    1. You are definitely one of my inspirations when it comes to reading, Stephany!

  6. Running 1000 miles in a year has been a goal forever but between travel and injury, I’ve never managed it. This year has been a little crazy with coming home, so I’m hoping to get back on track with it next year and kick some serious running ass.

    1. I have no doubt you will, Terra!

  7. I think I’m mostly on track with my goals/resolutions, and I have some ideas of edits for next year, for sure. My biggest struggle has been consistent writing (creativity! Where did you go!?) and consistent working out (triple-digit temps, why do you hate me!)

    xox

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