Week 8

13 to-dos: 5 completed 2 progress made 6 untouched

Some weeks achieving my goals feels like driving up a mountain on a paved road – beautiful views, fun turns, new sights. Other weeks it feels like climbing up by my finger tips with no climbing gear. While I absolutely prefer the nice drive weeks, I learn a lot more about myself on the difficult climb weeks.

You’d think after last week’s mid quarter check in, that I’d have an extremely productive week. Instead I had one of my worst weeks this quarter. There were so many goals I didn’t even touch! I just couldn’t seem to get traction and got overwhelmed quickly. I was actually feeling quite low about it when I started thinking about why such a difficult week was putting me in a spiral.

I was feeling like I had failed in many of my quarter one goals just because of this off week. I realized – there will be weeks like this; honestly there may be weeks where I don’t achieve a single goal. So why not factor bad weeks into my goals?

One of the things I’ve heard about achieving goals is the importance of measurable goals. I’ve touched about that a bit already. But I’m still learning. For example my goal of 90 minutes of yoga a week. This is measurable, 90 minutes, so that’s good. But if I only do 89 minutes in one week then, that whole quarter, I didn’t achieve my goal. I got close, really close and that’s still good, but my perfectionist side gets me down about it. So then I thought about well how about for quarter two I give myself the goal of 1,170 minutes of yoga in the quarter? But part of the reason behind the yoga goal is I do want to be pushing myself to do yoga each week. This lead to my new plan of for Quarter 2, wording my goal to be averaging 90 minutes a week.

I’m still going to be working on my goals for quarter one how they are worded currently, but I’m also not letting myself feel like I’ve failed my goals. One week at a time – this week is a new week with new goals!