New Year Resolutions: are they going to plan?

At the beginning of the month I set myself some goals for 2015.  The mistake I have made in previous years is not revisiting the goals often enough. They then slip to the back of my mind and sometimes get forgotten about completely.  I am guessing I am not on my own.

So a month in, how am I doing?  As I explained some of my goals are long term, to be achieved at some point in the year, but I do need to be making progress towards them.  Let me recap;

Personal Goals

• Find a better work life balance – Sadly there has been no progress on this front so far.  Working hard to give myself breathing space.
• Continue to beat PND – I am doing a few things, which are helping me to stay in a good place.
• Meet up with friends more – I am doing quite well on this and have had some fun times with friends this month.
• Reach my target weight – Not at target, but I am doing well, so hopefully it will be my year!
• Become proficient in French – I have made no progress at all with this.  I haven’t even put the CD in the computer….. pas bon.

Home Life Goals

• Organise our clutter – I have made a start!  It really does make a difference to your attitude too.
• Sell/Re-home all Baby’s unwanted things – oops nothing has happened here, I must focus on this in February.
• Implement a cleaning schedule – We have talked about it…..does that count….?
• Spend more screen free time with Hubby – I have just had a whole week with Hubby on holiday, so successful so far.
• Have a night out – not yet, but I am hopeful.

Blogging Goals

• Make blogging a viable career – I have now started as a freelance professional blogger.  January has been promising with lots of new connections.
• Increase my blog subscribers – This number is ticking up nicely and I have a plan to help increase this, I just need a little time.
• Improve my use of Pinterest – Ah, still not pinned so many of my posts…..
• Get involved with my US peers – I have joined a primarily US Facebook bloggers group.
• Increase followers on all my social networks – These are steadily increasing.
• Vlog more – I have plans for one, which I think will go live next week.
• Secure regular advertising – not focused any efforts here so far.
• Work S.M.A.R.T.E.R – T.R.Y.I.N.G
• More collaboration – I have LOTS of plans and there are a few interesting projects in discussion at the moment.

So overall, after only 4 weeks I am happy with what I have achieved towards my goals.  Sometimes I wish I had a crystal ball and could look into the future (even just to the end of the year) to see if I manage to achieve all of them.  I have even thought about consulting The Circle Free Horoscopes to see if they can shed any light on what I should be doing over the next few weeks and what might be on the horizon for me.

Have you set any goals for this year?  Do you read horoscopes?

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