Goal Checkup

This is the first of my quarterly goal checkups, you know, those goals I wrote about back in January. I have to say, I’ve been avoiding writing this post. One, because March, like February, snuck up on me! All of a sudden I’m in the second week of March and it feels like I’ve only just blinked on New Years. How come time never passes this fast when I want it to? Two, I’ve been very lazy in the achieving goals department. And in denial in regards to my not paying attention.

I have lots of excuses but you probably don’t want to read about them….

Needless to say, I haven’t done my goals much justice. I’ve been trying with a few of them but overall I’m not at all happy with myself. The list is posted on the wall in front of my desk and every time I look up from my computer (the item most consistently in front of me when I’m in my swivel chair), I have overwhelming feelings of guilt.

Since avoiding my wall is somewhat impossible -I do basically live in that room- my guilt has finally pushed me to get my butt in gear with a few goals. Here are the ones I’m on top of (in one way or another):

I’m tackling my apocalypse story for What Follows almost every weekend. Having just a few uninterrupted hours during one day of the week, the one I’m not dead tired, is making me lag behind pretty bad. The story is almost presentable though!
Like I said above, I only have a few uninterrupted hours where my head is screwed on straight. It’s basically devoted to editing so I am not getting my 1000 words a week in. This is a life/balance issue I need to rectify asap because I’m standing still right now.
I’ve been reading quite slowly this year but I’m taking my “4th old book” rule seriously! I just finished the oldest book on my tbr pile and absolutely LOVED it. I like this goal already!
All of us at Anxiety Ink are at weird points in our lives but we’ve been keeping steady with Anxiety, which I’m very happy about! I say we’re concretizing.
I really need to exercise regularly. REALLY need to.
My mom would really like it if I cooked…
I’m on the accountability train! I need to do better but I’m holding on.
I’m kind of positive?
I’m stuck in a gargantuan reference book right now, but I haven’t bought any others. I can’t decide if this is a good thing?
I’m being more social lately, barely. I’m trying!
I’m still VERY cluttered –which is irritating.

I have no new goals to add right now. I do have some contests I wish to enter and that might help a few of the above.

Realistically, I can’t tackle all my goals at once. I know this and yet those feelings of inadequacy like to rear their head. But, of course, there are easy goals on my list that I should focus on instead of stressing about the big ones. That’s kind of why I put them on there. D’uh, self.

How are everyone else’s goals/resolutions going?