October Goals

I finished a number of my goals for this month already. The remain goals are to:

1. Create Month Budget Notebook and complete September Budget
2. Organize Jacob's Clothes 
3. Transition kids summer clothes with fall clothes
4. Update all cell phone photos to snap fish
5. Read three books (so far I have finished two).

Goals and Lists

My mind has been all over the place lately, or more so than normal. I am not sure if it's pregnancy related or just plain old busyness due to having young children. I often find myself making extensive lists of things to do but often find that half or not more of what is on that list is not that important. I sat down recently to review what it is that I would like to accomplish throughout the rest of the year.

1. Continue Working on MFW 1st grade and add additional preschool activities. 
2. Start Potty Training Ice Man
3. Jacob's Birth
4. Finish goal of reading 24 books this year. 
5. Establish home management system
6. Continue with my higher education courses
7. Clothing Organization
8. Room Organization
9. Utilize Blog
10. Photo Organization
11. Maintain and Update Budget regularly

Some of these goals are rather large and will carry over next year. With this list, I will be able to have a more focused sense of direction on what areas I want to concentrate on.  Additionally to creating this overall list, I have started making monthly lists of what needs to be done in regards to this overall list. By making this monthly list I am also able to decide whether or not a task is really of any value. It may be something that would be ideal but not worth focusing on now. After a monthly list I have broken things down further in a weekly to do list. This list usually has items referring to the monthly list as well as any items that need to be done throughout the week. I have been using just a regular notebook for this.

Goals!

Lately I have been all over the place with my thoughts and intentions. Let's just say that I have been multitasking but not checking anything of my to do list. I have started things but not finished them.

After reading numerous blog posts and thinking about how I can follow through with my to do list, there are some simple ideas I am going to try and use.

1. Establish weekly goals. To try and help with having some focus I am going to list weekly goals of some bigger projects. Right now in this category are read more, listen to more podcasts, craft more and declutter.

2. Three daily tasks. These tasks will be anything on my to do list that it is not  performed on a regular basis.

I have been utilizing a small dry erase board to list out my to dos for the day. It has been nice using it since hubby is able to add things to it.