New Goals for 2012

 Fitness Goals

1. Keep up the exercise. Right now I try to run three times a week and doing yoga two or three times a week. I want to keep doing this.


2. Finish a 10K race. I am working on building up my run times, slowly but surely! I would like to run a 10K this year. I had so much fun running my 5K, and it was such a confidence builder to see that I could run in a big bunch of people without getting left behind, crying.


3. Relearn how to swim. Because my swimming is pathetic. Maybe this is a good summer goal.

Hobby Goals

4. Knit something cute. It doesn't have to be a baby sweater (which is a recycled goal from 2011). Just get back into the world of knitting!

5. Learn something about gardening. I've adopted the two little sidewalk plots in front of my building. Hopefully I will be a good mom to them. And if all goes well, I'd like to get a plot in the community garden at Riverbank State Park too.


6. Finish my young adult novel. That's right, I am writing a young adult novel. For fun. And it wouldn't be terrible if I could turn it into a fabulous series that made me a millionaire. I mean, c'mon. If Magic Treehouse lady can do it, why not me?


7. Keep trying new stuff. Since I did fairly well at this goal last year, I'm going to push myself by specifying that I want to do more new stuff in different parts of New York. I need to explore.

8. Reread the classics. All the stuff I read when I was too young to appreciate it. Or maybe I didn't get around to reading it in the first place.  Adult books, kid books, anything is fair game.

These are my goals! What are yours for 2012?

-Kristin

Reflections on 2011

How did I do on the goals I was supposed to be working on in 2011? I thought this would be a good time to take stock and reflect on how things have gone.

1. Become healthier. I think I did fairly well on this one! I started running, and I didn't give up. In fact, I went running today! I also signed up for a race and ran it last year. And I started doing yoga a few times a week. Ben tells me I seem "healthier" and "less hunched over." I guess I will take that as a compliment.

2. Relearn how to swim. Fail, a miserable fail! I haven't even been in a pool since I wrote these words. This one definitely needs some work.

3. Knit a baby sweater. Again, a big fat fail. I actually tried to start on this one, kind of half-heartedly I admit. I ran into trouble and gave up. I think I will switch to an easier pattern and give it another try.

4. Make time for friends. Hmmm, I don't think I have done very well on this one either. Poop.

5. Get organized. Argggh. No progress on this front.

6. Do one new thing a week. Hmmm. I don't think I've nailed it every week, but at least this isn't the miserable failure that most of my goals were. I will try to ratchet it up, but I'm fairly happy with my record for trying new things.

Wow, now that I look back, I realize that I didn't do all that well on my goals! I don't even remember writing some of these. Get organized? Did I really say that? Oh well, I will concentrate on the ones that worked out. They eat up a lot of my time! And I do think they have made my life better. To an even better life in 2012!

-Kristin