Last year, I took some time to assess and reassess my overall yearly goals around mid year. 2020 is a perfect year to do this again, as so much has changed from January to now. But when I looked at the goals I made in the beginning of the year, I realized that I had actually accomplished quite a few of them!
I struggled with setting my 2020 goals back in January, but looking back on them, they were kinda spot on. Here are some notes on each and how I’m doing on them:
Creation Over Consumption - I’m not sure if I’ve created too much so far this year, but I have had more time to create and relax and let my brain work towards a creative direction.
Be More Self Sustainable
Live slow -Lockdown was great to reassert this goal!
Forage more - Another happy circumstances of lockdown was no shopping, foraging was the only option.
Grow more food -Our garden is huge!
Build a greenhouse - Almost done!
Cook more - I have been cooking more and we have been eating better than ever!
Beach more - In the beginning of lockdown, it was easy to walk to the beach just about everyday. Now that the Summer tourists are here, and not following social distancing rules, we have pretty much stopped going to the beach. While that is sad, I’m excited for Sept, when we can go often again.
Cat health - Quarantine was an amazing time to get to spend with our cats. Being home all the time really allowed us quality time and enabled us to focus on cat health.
Work less - Wow! Now I need to figure out a way to do that all the time.
Spend less - Yes!
House Projects -We haven’t made much headway on any house projects so far this year. Perhaps that’s something to focus on for the rest of 2020?
Kitchen
Basement
Woodstove - I still really want this as a goal. We need to get a new roof, so it makes sense to get a wood stove installed before then.
Piano
Clean and reduce
Travel and Explore - Well, this is where covid 19 got in the way of our plans instead of helped them. We have not been able to travel and explore too much this year. There are a lot of changes that we have adopted during this time that we want to keep, but being able to travel is something we want to take up again. Travel in the next few years might look quite different but we will see as we go.
Explore where to have a vacation house
Johnson family trip
Bermuda
NOLA
Read 1 Book per Month -I totally nailed this goal this year!
Shroud for a Nightingale - This book was read.
Salt -On my list
Magical Herbalism - Yep, and I’ve read 18 other books this year so far.
Exercise
Walk - Such a good year for this so far!
Swim - This is something that I would still like to explore, but the virus has put a damper on seeking it out.
Stretch - This might be the only goal on the list that I wish I had done better on.
Health and supplements
Over all, I was shocked looking back at how many of my goals I’ve accomplished this year. I hadn’t looked back on it for months and it was nice to see that I had incorporated so many of them into my daily life. Looking back on my goals let’s me reassess what my goals were and where I am with them and add on any goals that I have formed from the first half of the year. Now I will ruminate on what goals I want to set for the rest of the year.
Did you set goals in the beginning of 2020? Have you fulfilled those goals and did they go the way you expected? If you had to create new/more goals for the end of the year, how much would they change?
