Happy New Year! 2021 is over, so I wanted to look back at the goals I set last year and see how I did. I know I didn't succeed with all of them, and for the coming year, I'll definitely be doing things a bit differently!
My 2021 goals were:
- Workout for 150 minutes a week.
- Make a new recipe every month.
- Do a monthly check-in on this blog.
Goal #1 was a failure - I only worked out for 150 minutes on 37 weeks (71%). I relied too much on walking to and from work (which if I did that 5 days a week, worked out to 150 minutes). On a week where I was off, or had to drive (we started working weekends again, and I had to go to a different building which wasn't close enough to walk to), I generally didn't do anything to pick up the slack, especially during these last few months. So that's something I'll need to do for the future: come up with a plan for weeks where I'm not walking to work as much.
But I did improve from 2020 with this goal (I only hit 150 minutes per week 52% of the time). So that's good to see!
Goal #2 was a success! Thanks to Chef's Plate, I made 39 new dishes this year!!! And at least one per month (I think December and August were the two months where I only made one new dish).
Goal #3 was a fail. I did 9 monthly checkins on this blog (so close at 75%!) but they were a real struggle to remember to do. Then I don't remember why, exactly, but in the fall I made the conscious decision to stop because they just weren't working for me at all. If I ever decide to do something like this again, I will have to set a monthly reminder to myself on my calendar or something. But the way I was doing them this year (looking back at my goal progress), I didn't find them very helpful at all. A monthly mental health check in might have been more valuable, or something like that.
So that was 2021. I'm currently working out my goals for the new year, and will post in a few days about them!
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