14 for 14 Final Update
Here's a quick wrap up of my goals from 2014.
- Go on a grand adventure. Check! I'd say Korea has more than sufficed for a grand adventure!
- Make a quilt. Well I started a quilt, left it in the states unfinished. Bought more fabric as soon as I got to Korea and never started it. Guess what one of my 15 for 15 goals will be?
- Start something. Somehow Caylee and I started Get Messy and now we are starting something even bigger out of it! This was such a wonderful, unexpected turn of events from this very ambiguous goal!
- Project Life 2014. I started strong. Fell behind. Participated in Lets Catch Up on Project Life, fell behind again. Then I powered through and finished 30 spreads in 2 days! BOOM! Check.
- Blog (Design) Love. Hello Lauren-Likes.com!
- Create a recipe book. This is a more EHHH kind of goal. I officially filled up our recipe box by running out of cards and then created my own replacement ones, but I still should probably have some blank cards on hand. I was more intentional and remembered to actually write down recipes, which was the whole main goal of this goal. Now I just need to find a refill of cards to keep it going. So, check-ish.
- Learn to shoot in manual. Womp. Womp. Check back in for 2015...
- Read the Bible all the way through. I can't even look at you right now. I'm so ashamed. BUT! For 2015 I'm armed with my Elise Habit Progress Tracker and this WILL be the year!
- Use up my craft stash. I somehow got an entire craft down to one suitcase and then built it right back up again once I got to Korea. Oh well, I'm an addict and I like it!
- Be an encourager. This is a hard to measure goal. The more I try to encourage others, the nicer people are to me. It's like that episode of Friends where Phoebe tries to find a selfless good deed and it's not possible.
- Dance like a fool at a huge concert. Check! I was on top of the world! See more here.
- Annihilate my wardrobe. I got rid of an entire closets worth of clothes, but I still moved entirely too many clothes 3/4 of the way around the world. I've gotten it down to one dresser and one wardrobe full. I would say that this was a success in having less, but now I need to hone it in to only perfect pieces. I'm toying with the idea of capsule wardrobe for 2015....
- Go to bed by 11pm. HA! Try 9:30 now. This new job has totally changed my sleep habits. My goal for 2015 may be bed by 8pm. But, seriously. So, unfortunately CHECK!
- Read 2 books a month. I read a ton this year and it was glorious. And I also learned a lot about my own reading preferences. I'm very excited about a very different reading plan I have for 2015.
Even though I made progress on all my goals, I would say that I didn't feel like I made a huge accomplishment in achieving them. But I'm ok with it! It's hard to create a set of ideas and tasks that are supposed to fit you for a whole year. I changed a lot this year and a lot has changed. So some things weren't such a priority as they had seemed at the beginning. And I'm ok with that. Because it is about progress. Next week I will really break down what I learned about this theory and how I plan to apply it to 2015....