Q1 (JAN-MAR)
Professional:
Write and teach “fútbol” chapter. This is for my 6th graders and will require a lot of work, but will hopefully be very rewarding.
Connect with two difficult students in each class. This is part of my attempts to be proactive about classroom management.
Personal:
Meditate 5-10min/day during work week. This is proving to be difficult – my son interrupts me most mornings! My new plan is to meditate in the evening if I don’t get it done before work.
Take Vitex every morning and Tumeric every night (make this a habit). The Vitex is to help ease the moodiness I’m experiencing during the second half of my cycle. The Tumeric is to combat shoulder pain (I re-injured my torn rotator cuff and the discomfort it just not going away. Blerg.)
House:
Find contractor and make appointment to look at water damage and talk about the possibility of pocket doors. We have avoided dealing with some water damage for a while and now it’s been raining all winter and the damage is, of course, much worse. We’re also going to look into pocket doors to separate our “bedroom” from the living room, mostly because we don’t expect to move downstairs anytime soon and we’re sick of not having any privacy (or at the very least quiet) in our bedroom.
Get heating ducts/furnace replaced. We just learned that all our heating ducts are insulated with asbestos. Awesome! The whole heating system needs to be removed and replaced. The good news is after it’s done we can get an automatic garage door! Of course we won’t have any money to do that after the water damage and heating system are dealt with.
Financial:
Track spending for 3 months. I’m not doing this very well yet. I really need to get on this bandwagon. I’m trying to avoid cash so I can go back and categorize it all, but I’m still slacking on this and it’s frustrating.
Only buy necessities. I’ve done well with this so far. I’ll write more about it soon.
Family:
30-60 minutes of quality time with each kid per week. I know my kids really appreciating having one-on-one time with me. I really want to work harder on making that happen.
Buy St. Louis tickets for summer. This needs to happen regardless, but it would be much better if I did it earlier in the year.
Marriage:
Hang out 2 times per week (put on calendar). This has been hit or miss. We’re still working out the kinks. The good news is my husband seems genuinely interested in figuring out how to make it happen. I appreciate that.
Friends:
Meet up with a friend one time per month. Keeping the bar low on this one. I better be able to manage that.
Q2 (APR-JUNE)
Professional: Apply for at least 2-3 jobs (even if I’m not really interested in them).
Prepare “fútbol” chapter for TeacherPayTeachers and post
Purge when I pack up my classroom (UGH!!!!)
Personal: Meditate 10-15 minutes a day
Creative: Morning pages during work week
House: Purge winter clothes before packing away
Purge kids’ toys
Financial: Review tracked spending
Marriage: Continue hanging out once during work week and once during weekend
Friends: Meet up with a friend 2 times per month
Q3 (JULY – SEPT)
Professional: ??? (Not sure what I’ll be doing at this point.)
Personal: Meditate 15 minutes a day
Creative: Morning pages during work week
House: Do ultimate “junk stuff” purge
Marriage: Go away for a long weekend
Friends: Meet up with a friend once a week
Q4 (OCT – DEC)
Professional: ??? (Not sure where I’ll be at this point)
Personal: Meditate 15 minutes per day
Creative: Re-read The Artist’s Way (or sequel)
House: Purge summer clothes
Marriage: Read an article and talk about it every week
Friends: Continue meeting up with someone 2-3 a month
Thank you. I think this is an impressive way to think positively and concretely about goals. You are being measurable too which helps. Most important: Please remember having a goal does not mean failure if it is not 100% achieved at the end of each quarter. Goals are for measuring progress towards an end point; goals are about stretching your self. If you could 100% achieve each goal with ease from day one, it would mean you set your goals too low. So be kind to you as well.
Now I have to gather pen and paper and follow your example!
I understood the idea of quarterly goals as doing one quarter at a time…so its more short term. You over-achiever you! I have no idea what my goals for the fall are going to be. I’m focusing on this winter. These are good goals, though, overall.
LV wrote hers out for the year so I guess I was following her lead. But I’m already rethinking a few of them. 😉