This post is just a quick summary of how things are going so far this year. We’re nearly three weeks into 2020, and things are pretty good so far.
This week I’ve had a fairly bad cold after only just getting over my previous cold. The joys of working with small children is when they sneeze in your face, and then you have to suffer a cold for ages. I wasn’t impressed. Haha. On Monday this week TWO children sneezed on me, and five days later I still feel like crap.
But mostly things have been positive so far. Most week days I have been getting up at 0530 and putting on make up before leaving the house (I didn’t wear make up to work at all last year). I go lots of positive comments for my make up, but this week what with not feeling my best I stayed in bed a little bit longer instead of doing my make up. But I think I needed the rest.
I am rather pleased with myself for getting up earlier though. I’m going to try moving my wake up time a little bit earlier over the next month or so I think, once I have my full energy back. Then I might be able to get more done in the mornings, maybe drink coffee and read a book. But I’m not too fussy about that at the moment, so long as I’m not running late all the time like I had been for a while before Christmas.
I am also doing much better at staying up to date with my Bullet Journal. In the past I had updated it maybe once per week. When I first started using my bujo I was somewhat obsessed with it, and HAD to do it every night before bed. Maybe I can start introducing it again as part of my night routine (which I haven’t started working on just yet).
On the other hand, I haven’t been doing so well with my reading progress as I had hoped. Today I finished my first book of the year (which I had started before Christmas). The book was The Well of Ascension, which is the second book in the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. I really enjoyed that book, but it was about 760 pages. But I still don’t think it should have taken me almost a month to read. I found it kind of slow going at the beginning, but after a couple of hundred pages into it, the action and drama got more intense. So the past week I have been reading at least fifty pages every day.
I want to be able to read fifty to a hundred pages every day, and having a long commute to work every day does help with that, but when I’m tired or if the book isn’t holding my attention too well then I really struggle to focus. So that is something I want to work on for a while.
I’m also going to try reading some graphic novels and listening to some audiobooks as much as I can to try to catch up. If I want to reach my reading goal for this year then I’m going to have to complete about eight or nine books each month. That’s going to be really difficult considering I mostly don’t even complete three to five books each month. But I can work on it, and in time I will improve. I just need a strategy and consistency. 🙂
Also, I haven’t done any sewing yet this year. Honestly, I’d like to have time at home alone to do sewing, but that’s not something that’s likely to happen for a while. So I’m either going to have to get on with it with my parents around, or just keep putting it off for a while, which is more likely. Haha.
However I have been writing in my journal a few times so far. I probably haven’t been writing in it as much as I had wanted to at the beginning of the month, but I can solve that quite easily.
There are still plenty of my 2020 goals that I want to work on (see my 2020 goals post for the full list). But there is plenty of time for all of that. If I can get on well with a few of my goals at the beginning of the year then it will be easier for me to pick up the others in time. Things haven’t gone too badly so far, and I’m quite please with how positive I feel at the moment.
I want to continue working towards getting up early, and getting more reading done. I think those are my two main focuses at the moment. I have also been keeping better track of my finances this year. I’m even keeping within my budget for January. Haha. I have spent far less money on coffees from cafes, and have had packed lunches nearly every day at work, and that does so much good for my bank account. Lol.
Anyways, I think that’s all I have to say for now.
Love Bobbi. Xx.
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