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2020 Reading Challenge
As you may be aware, there are twelve months in a year. I know. Shocking information. In 2019, I read a whopping 30 books. To diversify my reading for 2020, I wanted to…
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2020 Resolutions: Setting Goals for the New Year
This year, for resolutions, I intend to take on a few at a time, rather than throwing myself into all of them. Some of these really are year-long goals. But I’ve found that…
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2019 Fall (October) Bucket list
Fall is by far my favorite season. The crispness in the air. The changing colors. The sudden cold snap. This year, I didn’t have as much time to prepare for fall. I went…
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40 by 40 List: Part 1
At my 30th birthday, I recounted the successes and failures of my 30 by 30 list. But deep down, I lamented that I didn’t have a full 40 by 40 list ready to…
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2019 Goals Update
I expected to wait until the end of 2019 Q1 before posting an update to my goals, but I’ve been so pleased with my progress that I couldn’t wait any longer. 1. Use…
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5 Things to Know About Making Successful Resolutions
1. They aren’t just for New Years. Or new weeks. Or new months. New year resolution time has come and gone. Statistically, most people who set one have already failed to uphold theirs.…
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30 by 30 Finale
Here I am. 30 years old as of 11:28 a.m. this morning. With three decades under my belt, I’m just beginning to get the hang of this life thing–figuring out what I want…
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2019 Goals: 19 for 2019?
I fully did not intend this to become a 19 by 2019 list. Already, with the 12 goals for 2018, I felt like I reached too high in some ways. To be fair,…
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New Year, New Goals: 12 Goals Finale
At the beginning of January I posted my 12 goals for the 12 months of 2018. A year has come and nearly gone. Thus, it’s time for the conclusion of this year’s resolutions.…
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Fall Bucketlist 2018 Finale
Go to a pumpkin patch, Have a bonfire, Make s’mores I very cleverly knocked out the first three items of my fall bucketlist in one fell swoop. A coworker arranged an awesome pumpkin…
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Setting SMART health goals
I believe I first introduced my interest in SMART goal setting with my Vision Board post. For my Vision Boards, I’ve separated my goals into different categories–relationships, health, finance, career, etc. (For more on…
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Fall Bucketlist 2018 Introduction
This year the weather turned cold alarmingly sudden. We went from 93 degrees to 50 degrees with a 60 mph wind storm that shook the house and brought down branches. It was the…
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Summer Bucketlist Finale
September 22 is the first day of Autumn. That means we only have slightly over a month and a half left of summer! Here’s my progress report on my 18 for Summer 2018…
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Q3 2018 Goals update
At the beginning of January I posted my 12 goals for the 12 months of 2018 (Not one per month, just a nice numeric alliteration of sorts). Since studies show that sharing goals…
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30 by 30 – Only six months to go!?
I don’t feel old, but apparently I’m rapidly inching toward “old.” My half birthday is today, and I only have six months to finish my 30 by 30 list! For previous updates, here’s…
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Q2 Update to 2018 Goals. New Year, New Goals
At the beginning of January I posted my 12 goals for the 12 months of 2018 (Not one per month, just a nice numeric alliteration of sorts). Since studies show that sharing goals…
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Summer Bucket List – 18 for Summer 2018
Summer officially begins June 21st. The days of being a student, complete with free summers, are long gone. But that doesn’t mean you can’t mark the change in seasons with summer-specific celebrations. As…
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Setting SMART financial goals
I’ve talked before about SMART principles of goal setting. One of the key principles that drives my decisions is that I don’t want to have regrets. Identifying goals is an important step to find maximum…
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Intro to SMART goal setting
I started getting serious with goal setting over a year ago. I developed categories: financial, social, professional, relationship, spiritual, etc., and I spent some time thinking about what I wanted from each area.…
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What I learned from the Whole30 (and Whole30 Results)
A month ago I shared that I’d been trying a Whole30. My reasons were plentiful: breaking sugar addiction, evaluating my relationship with food and my food habits, getting healthy, etc. Now, three weeks…
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Bootcamp ideas to kickstart habits and boost your happiness
If you’ve visited this blog before, you’re probably familiar with my monthly bootcamp series. (If you’re new, welcome!) Monthly bootcamps are based on the idea that you can do anything for 30 days.…
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Monthly bootcamp progress report
I’ve been advocating for a regular monthly bootcamp since October. While I’m sure others also take this approach to skill and habit formation, the idea came to me from Gretchen Rubin’s Happier Podcast,…
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Fitness, Fad Diets, and the Whole30
I’m on day 20 of the Whole30. I thought it would be simple to explain the dietary limitations that come with a Whole30, but I’ve found few people speak the language of “fad”…
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Q1 update to New Year, New Goals!
At the beginning of January I posted my 12 goals for the 12 months of 2018 (Not one per month, just a nice numeric alliteration of sorts). As keeping goals at the top…
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30 by 30… only one year left?!
Happy Birthday to me! I have one year left to complete my 30 by 30 list, and it’s going… OK. Without any ado, here are my remaining items, with notes on all remaining…
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Resolution Check-in and Rude Resolution Awakenings
It’s February, which means that for the vast majority of Americans, New Years’ Resolutions may be a thing of the past. Few people meet their resolutions, a proven fact that has many contributing…
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The unexpected way my meditation boot camp may be working
I pick an activity to do each month for every day. I’ve had a dry month, studied language for fifteen minutes a day, tried to post a blog a day, and now, I’m…
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How to make a vision board that works for you: 2018 edition
Last year, I made a Vision Board as the cover for my agenda, so I would see it first thing every day. To do so, I used the eight categories: Career, Finance, Health,…
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New Year, New Goals
New Year, New Goals: 12 Goals for 12 Months in 2018 My strategy has been to incorporate my overarching goals into smaller projects. So, general items from my life-long bucket list are on…
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December bucket list finale
I posted my December Bucket List at the beginning of the month, with some key activities I wanted to complete this month. I did pretty well, with the only real difficulties being watching…
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December monthly boot camp: Language learning
For my December monthly boot camp, I opted to study a language for 15 minutes every day. As my Polish skills declined dramatically after living in Poland, I felt it behooved me to…
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December bucket list
My December bucket list is quite short (for me) and contains mostly the basics that really define the December holiday season for me. Count Christmas trees My family lives near a bunch of…
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Dry November? Monthly “boot camp” update
In October I decided to begin doing a thing every day for a month. In October, my mission was to write a blog a day. I didn’t make an announcement about my November…
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Blogtober failtober? Finding success in failure
I failed. And yet, I didn’t. I found success in failure. I dropped the ball on my 31 days of 31 blogs, but those days I didn’t post didn’t define my month. My…
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Final fall bucket list update
Fall bucket list final update! 1. Costume Bentley “Oh, sorry, I didn’t see you there. I’m just modeling my custom, one-of-a-kind Lepredog costume, which I will be wearing every Notre Dame football game,…
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Fall Bucketlist: Pumpkins and Scary Movies
I completed three of the five items on my October bucket list today. Last weekend I picked and cleaned pumpkins, fresh from the garden. Then I left them on the kitchen counter for…
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Fall Bucket List!
One of my 30-by-30 list items was making the most of every holiday. I want to decorate gingerbread houses, dye Easter eggs, drink green beer for St. Patrick’s Day, and watch Bill Pullman…
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Reevaluating goals: monthly “boot camp”
With fall beckoning to me with the promise of cozy sweater weather, it was worth it for me to reevaluate my goals. August brought an update to my 30 by 30 list. However,…
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Blogtober: October blog-a-day goal
I’ve been neglecting my blog somewhat. And my agenda and my goal setting and my work out routine, etc. Basically, I’ve been neglecting most things that have been making me feel centered, happy,…
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How I hacked NaNoWriMo
I’ve wanted to win NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) since I first heard about it. The goal is to write 50,000 words–the size of a novella–in one month. In high school, I was…
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30 by 30 – 18 months to go…
A while back, I published a “30 by 30” list of 30 things to do before I turned 30. Then I published a two-years-to- update. Another six months down, I’m evaluating my slow but…
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30 by 30 – Two years left update
A while back, I published a “30 by 30” list of 30 things to do before I turned 30. If you’re reading this on February 9th, 2017, then there are officially two years…
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30 by 30 List: 30 Things to Do Before Turning 30
A good friend and former roommate of mine, Lola, worked on a 30 by 30 list that was pretty boss. I reached a turning point in my life where I found I wanted…
