Well, well, well, here we are in June already. How time flies when you set goals. Okay, time tends to fly whether or not you have goals but it goes extra fast, I think, when you have goals. This isn’t necessarily scientific fact (you know, like climate change) but just Tanya thoughts, which have been known to be wrong. And occasionally crazy.
How Did I Do in May?
Yo. I did just fine. That’s right I set two simple goals of blogging twice a week and exercising five times. And guess who is a Goal Queen? That’s right. Me. Little ‘ol me.
Goal Met: Blogging Twice a Week
I did not blog Memorial Week because I typically don’t blog during holiday weeks. While this break wasn’t noted in my original May Goals post (oops, my bad), I’m still counting this as a victory. My blog, people. My rules.
Goal Met: Exercising Five Times in May
Whew. I honestly just made this goal. Five times a month seems so doable because it is, but I made the mistake of not scheduling when I would exercise, so it was at whim. Not my best move because I can be a horrible procrastinator. And I might have needed to exercise three times the last week of May … including May 30th and 31st to reach my goal. But again, it doesn’t matter when I exercised, it matters that I did.
Two Goals for June Because I Like Simplicity
Listen, why fix what’s not broken? And I met my goals. I exercised, which is something I haven’t done in a loooooooong time and should have been doing. Hello, weight gain. I hate found pounds. And blogging is good for my mental health. It helps me connect and get thoughts out of my head, but laziness (and a certain amount of meh-ness) kept from regularly sitting down at my laptop.
My goals for June will be blogging AND exercising twice a week. Blogging days will remain Mondays and Thursdays with workouts scheduled for Tuesdays and Thursdays. I’d like one day to be strength training and the other day to be cardio but that’s not set in stone. It’s cool if I do something else but I must exercise twice a week. I’m also hoping by setting workout days that exercise won’t be an afterthought, which happened to me last month.
Routine is the Real End Goal
If we’re being honest, routine is really what I seek. Blogging and exercise are simply the vehicles I’m choosing to get some routine back into my life. Sometimes I chafe at too much rigidity because I see myself as a creative free spirit, but routine also provides comfort and direction too. I can be extremely disciplined and also very undisciplined. Because I’m complex, people. Super, super (not) complex. 😉
Did you set goals for May? How did you do? Any goals for June?
Tanya
i thrive on routine; if i dont have a routine down, I feel all over the place and unsettled.
To be honest, I do better with a routine too but still I resist them, especially with my personal life. I’m not as resistant to them professionally because they keep me organized and on task. Not sure why I’m not as open to them for myself, but I’m putting my big girl pants on and getting over it.
Way to go with the goals! Regardless of when you checked them off, you did it!! And there’s no way (I imagine) that you’d have exercised May 30th and 31st without that goal in place! So go you!! Good luck with June! You’ve got this!
Great point, Audrey! Because you are 100% correct. Without the goal, I would definitely not have exercised the last two days of May (or likely at all), so let’s keep a good perspective!
I am such a routine person myself. It really throws me off when my routine gets changed. Its’ why my exercise has failed so much myself lately. Having to now help with my mom so much, if I miss my work out, I’m like Screw it – & carry that attitude for a few days after… So I feel you. & like your idea of 2 goals… & getting them on the calendar. Keep it up – if anything, that’s good for your spirit knowing you’re reaching your goals!!!
Yup, I totally get the screw it mentality. When I stopped exercising last year, it was a slow, gradual death but once I wasn’t exercising at all, I also stopped eating as healthy too. It was like “why bother” and now I see my pants start to tighten up a bit and remember why I was bothering with exercise and eating healthy. Achieving goals is definitely is a mood boost and I need to remember that too!
I can’t remember where I heard this, but someone said they put discipline in their life for things that should be routine so that they have MORE bandwidth to be more creative…ie, it’s ONE less decision you have to make each day/month, etc. Congrats on achieving what you wanted to! I didn’t have any major goals for May but doing a credit card ban for June (with the exception of a couple of expenses already auto deducted like health insurance and phone).
That’s an excellent point, Tonya. For whatever reason many creatives, or at least me, tend to think schedules/routine stifle our creativity. But it’s probably the exact opposite. We’re so distracted, chasing after our own tales, that we use a lot of energy on non-creative tasks that leave our well dry. Good luck on your June goals!
Congrats on reaching your May goals and setting your June goals. I like simplicity! And I feel the more simple, the easier to achieve. Why complicate things?! Good luck on your exercise and blogging!
Yup, simple is generally better. Sadly, it’s my nature to sometimes want to overcomplicate simple things! A habit I need to break!