2022 Goals July Update

2022 July Update

Here is my 2022 Goals July update:

Goal: Lose five more pounds.

I am maintaining my weight but currently not losing. I need to get more serious about losing weight. No progress in June or July.

Goal: Ancestry: Contact at least two cousins. I have reached out to 2 cousins but have not heard from them. I tried someone else. Most of these cousins are a lot younger than me, and I think that may be why they are not responding since I’m old. A great excuse, isn’t it? No progress in June or July.

Goal: Read 30 books. I have read 29 books. I read a lot in July. Currently I’m on the last book in a 3 book series written by James Patterson. I find his books hard to put done. One book to go, and I’m sure I’ll be done with it by August 10th.

Goal: Get through at least my second and third drafts of the book I wrote in 2021 and finish the first draft of my second book. I have joined a group that will help me with this. And I have a writing coach now, so that should help. She and I talked on the 31st of January, and I’m excited I have been going through the third draft and making changes. On June 11, I started a class that will be helpful in writing my first draft of the second book. I have created an outline for that one. The goal for book number one is 55,000 words, and then we will discuss the next step. I plan to be working on my 3rd draft until I hit that word count. Currently I have 3,774 words to go. Great news – I have found two people to be Beta readers.

Goal: Visit three states that I have not visited before. We are going to New Mexico, Wyoming, and North Dakota this year. We traveled to New Mexico trip in April. I need to plan the other trip to Wyoming and North Dakota. No progress in June or July.

Goal: Complete 2 quilts. I plan to finish a quilt for my son-in-law and one for my daughter-in-law. July was successful in that I cut out all the fabric for both quilts. I also started sewing one. If you know anything about quilting, this one has 174 squares, that are made from 3 different fabrics. It involves marking a line done the middle of hundreds of squares. I decided after sewing a lot of squares together, I should mark them all before I continue sewing. I’m almost half way done with that.

Goal: Walk 1000 miles. I have attempted this for 4 years and never reached it. I need to be really serious about this year. The fifth attempt must work. So far this year, I have walked only 340 miles. If I did this evenly each month, I’m about 233 miles behind, which is an increase, once again, not the decrease I had hoped for. I’m getting further behind each month, which isn’t good.

July was good for my reading, writing, and quilt goals. I’m miserably behind, and I blame it on writing, since I love to write. I am working more on my quilts, in August, since I want to have them ready for Christmas and that means they have to be to the quilter soon.

How are you doing on your goals? Let me know below. Keep working toward your goals. We can do this.

2022 Goals – April Update

April Goals update


Here is my 2022 Goals April update
:

  1. Goal: Lose 5 more pounds. I am maintaining my weight, but currently not losing. I need to get more serious about losing weight.
  2. Goal: Ancestry: Contact at least two cousins. I have reached out to 2 cousins but have not heard from them. I tried someone else. Most of these cousins are a lot younger than me, and I’m thinking that may be why they are not responding since I’m old. A great excuse isn’t it?
  3. Goal: Read 30 books. I have read 15 books. I’m still reading about four books at the same time. They are mostly books about writing. They are going slow.
  4. Goal: Get through at least my second and third drafts of the book I wrote in 2021. Finish the first draft of my second book. I have joined a group that will really help me with this. And I have a writing coach now, so that should help. She and I talked on the 31st of January and I’m excited. I am finished with my second draft and moving on to the third. I have found out that I should not work on the first draft of my second book. It is non-fiction and those should be written after they have been accepted. I did start looking for an agent to represent me.
  5. Goal: Visit three states that I have not visited before. We are going to New Mexico, Wyoming, and North Dakota this year. We made most of the plans for the New Mexico trip in 2021 since we are going with a group. I still need to find any other things that I would like to do while we are at the “must-see” spots. I need to plan the other trip. We visited New Mexico so we have one state complete.
  6. Goal: Complete 2 quilts. I plan to finish a quilt for my son-in-law and one for my daughter-in-law. I already had the pattern for my son-in-law. In January, I bought some of the fabric for this one. I bought a pattern and most of the fabric for my daughter-in-law in 2021. I didn’t make much progress this month, but I believe I have purchased all the fabric I need.
  7. Goal: Walk 1000 miles. I have attempted this for 4 years and never reached it. I need to be really serious about this, this year. The fifth attempt must work. So far this year, I have walked 205 miles. April was a good month until the end of the month. I’m not feeling very good. Yes, it’s currently May, but I had a lot of tests run to figure out why I’m not feeling very good. So unfortunately my miles may not be very good in May.

April was good for my walking and travel goals. How are you doing on your goals? Let me know below. Keep working toward your goals. We can do this.