Things I Can Do Today To Help Me Achieve My Goals 2/1/10

This is my plan for today:

• Meal planning for the week.
• Washing clothes and emptying the dishwasher.
• Food shopping. We have nothing in the house. As soon as I've finished on here I'm going to make a list of things we need. While I'm in Asda I could look for a proper sellotape dispenser, a utensil rack, thank you cards, a new purse, iPhone cases and screen protectors.
• Post back Mirror's Edge to AP Electronics.
• Later I could also head out to Cardiff to take back the ClickHeats, get to Staples for a proper sellotape dispenser if Asda doesn't have one and get a utensil rack from somewhere.
• Stuart is going to study all day today, so I will head over to my mum's and see if she'll teach me to knit.
• Have a late night. I start back on nights tomorrow night and so it is important that I try and get to bed as late as possible.
  

Now I could also:

• Track my progress on Joe's Goals (also edit the goal content!)
• Listen to two chapters of Harry Potter, as I am behind from yesterday.
• Make a move on FlyLady (not in that way!)
• Make a note of how many e-mails I get today
• Make a start on my personal statement
• Ask my Momma to teach me knitting!
• Watch an episode of Gavin and Stacey
• Start my list of things that need to be hung up
• Put new dates into diaries and calendars
• Take some more photos of the Le Creuset
• Put together the new lamp
• Make a list of my non-efficient light bulbs
• Blog
• Write on my thank you cards
• Take a photo for project 365
  

How to set up the wii fit

"It was easy peasy and put my on the road to daily fitness. "

How I did it: The Wii is already set up. I located the Wii Fit Board but I couldn't find the actual game or the rechargers I was looking for. Ten minutes later, we found them in a very unlikely place. Anyway, I put the game in and away it went. It was very easy because the game knows what the board should be doing. I didn't like what the board told me about my weight though!

Lessons & tips: Just Do It!

Resources: Wii Fit game and board

It took me 1 day.

It made me pleased and excited

See more progress on: set up the wii fit

Things I Can Do Today To Help Me Achieve My Goals 1/1/10

I could:

• Do some self-talk on the college/failure/acceptance goal
  
• Track my progress on Joe's Goals
• Listen to one chapter of Harry Potter
• Look at FlyLady: maybe I can make a move on a Babystep
• Make a note of how many e-mails I am getting on a daily basis
  
• Make a start on my personal statement
• Empty the kitchen drawer of all the appliance and instruction manuals
• Maybe ask my Momma to teach me to knit today!
  
• Pack up Mirror's Edge to send back
• Set up the Wii Fit
• Watch an episode of Gavin and Stacey
• Start my list of things that need to be hung up
• Put new dates into diaries and calendars
• Take some more photos of the Le Creuset
• Set up the ION and sit with it?
  
• Put together the new lamp
• Make a list of my non-efficient light bulbs
• Blog Well this counts, right?
  
• Take a photo for Project 365
  

Now, that's a lot of stuff but I don't have to get it all done today. It works out at about five hours worth of stuff but that's a very wide estimate.

Other things:

• We are going to go and see Stuart's mother because she has been down with flu since Boxing Day. Much to my annoyance, they came over and brought Stuart's aunt and uncle, Karen and Mark, over with them. Mark and Mark put on the rugby (surprise, surprise) and we spent ages talking about babies. Yawn.
  
• We will go to my Mum's to see them, start up my brother's new laptop and maybe she'll teach me how to knit! But she didn't teach me how to knit! However, I am pleased that she is enjoying using her negative scanner.
  

I'd like to think...

...I’m doing well with this goal i.e. that I’m tracking what I’m doing each day. I’ve successfully tracked for 27 days now, even if it’s just ticking the box that says “Tracked”. It would be nice to get higher scores every day, although that will come with following the FlyLady program closely. But all in all, I’m pleased with my progress.

See more progress on: track my progress by visiting joe's goals every day for six months

I took out...

...new car insurance a few weeks ago and forgot to submit my certificate of no claims because I couldn’t find it. Now the company are threatening me with increased premiums unless I find and post my old certificate. So that’s the challenge.

Specfic: I find certificate. I post it. I receive confirmation. I complete goal.
Measurable: Complete when confirmation received.
Attainable: If I get off my butt.
Reasonable: Absolutely.
Timely: By 1st Jan or else.

See more progress on: sort my car insurance out

Test post

I am doing 43 things.

43 Things

1. Quit college and accept it as gracefully giving in, not failure

By Jan end

2. track my progress by visiting joe's goals every day for six months

Due 4th June 2010, then ongoing habit.

3. Read all the Harry Potter books

Before summer 2010

4. Set up FlyLady routines

By late Jan/early Feb

5. Unsubscribe from newsletters, mailing lists, etc that I don't really read

By Jan end

6. Finish "10 days to self-discipline"

By 17th Jan

7. Sort out my / our finances

By Jan end

8. Take the one hundred pushups challenge

By early spring

9. Take the two hundred squats challenge

By early spring

10. Take the two hundred sit ups challenge

By early spring

11. Knit a Gryffindor scarf

For the release of DH Autumn 2010

12. study nursing

September 2010

13. Travel on the Trans Siberian railway

???

14. stay in the penthouse of a fancy hotel

???

15. Celebrate New Years in Times Square

???

16. change all my lightbulbs to energy efficient ones

By Jan end

17. visit my relatives more often

By end 2010

18. put my mother's le creuset on ebay

by Jan end

19. put all our home movies on DVD

by Jan end