February Goals

In the spirit of Eat that Frog by Brian Tracy, I’ve been trying to plan out each month’s goals.  I’m working from my master list of projects and goals.  The master list includes all my to-dos from house projects to craft projects to work projects to life list goals.  I selected several projects that I wanted to accomplish this year and broke them down into action steps.  From there, action steps were assigned to various months of the year depending on my work schedule and the step’s priority in project hierarchy.  Anyway, this is what’s on tap for February.

1.  Exercise daily
2.  Shoot for 5 a day fruit and veggie consumption.
3.  Transcribe ½ of the interviews with my Grandmother.
4.  Complete another ¼ of the Arabian cross stitch project (orphaned project #1).
5.  Read 3 books, one of which is off the Pulitzer list.
6.  Get the insulation installed under the roof and under the floor.
7.  Find a housekeeper (I’m taking recommendations!)
8.  Purge the upstairs bedrooms of excess stuff.
9.  Start the remainder of the seeds when they come in.
10.  Put down crabgrass preventer.
11.  Decide on baby gift pattern and purchase yarn.  Yes, after a 4 month dry spell, another friend is pregnant. 

Each action step has been assigned a week and before that week rolls around, it will be assigned a day.  I did this in January and was pretty pleased with the results (See blog post on completion of orphan project #2!).