14 for 14 Final Update

14 goals in 2014 by Lauren LikesHere's a quick wrap up of my goals from 2014.

  1. Go on a grand adventure. Check! I'd say Korea has more than sufficed for a grand adventure!
  2. 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?
  3. 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!
  4. 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.
  5. Blog (Design) Love. Hello Lauren-Likes.com!
  6. 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.
  7. Learn to shoot in manual. Womp. Womp. Check back in for 2015...
  8. 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!
  9. 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!
  10. 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.
  11. Dance like a fool  at a huge concert. Check! I was on top of the world! See more here.
  12. 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....
  13. 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!
  14. Read 2 books a monthI 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.... 

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