Well there are now only two months left in the year—that is 61 days until 2019 arrives. While Halloween has always been a favorite holiday, I’m ready for this month to be over. It has been an extremely rough and depressing month & one that I don’t want to have to repeat ever again if possible.
Needless to say, I didn’t do great with the goals for October. But let’s take a look at each one and see how close I came to accomplishing each one. The goals for the most part really aren’t changing that much, as there are certain things that if I keep on the list, they will slowly become a habit, and the list is just a reminder of things that I want to try to be better at compared to the day before.
So my goals for October included:
434,000 steps (This is still basically 14K/day; it may be less or it may be more—it depends on if I do any traveling this month).
Trying to have my shakeology daily (breakfast, dinner, or snack)
Read (or finish) at least 3 non-fiction books
Start working though the list of books that I’ve finished, but haven’t written a review over:
Science of Intelligent Achievement by Isaiah Hankel
Self Talk: How to train your brain to turn negative thinking into positive thinking & practice self love by Aston Sanderson
Minimalist Living: Declutter your home, schedule, and digital life for simple living (and discover why less is more) by Aston Sanderson
Rewire your Habits: Establish Goals, Evolve your habits, & improve your relationships, health, finances, and free time by Zoe McKey
Thinking in Bets: making smart decisions when you don’t have all the facts by Annie Duke.
What your clutter is trying to tell you: Uncover the message in the mess and reclaim your life by Kerri L. Richardson
Limit what I buy on campus (pack lunch daily, including snacks)
Start another workout program (or a mix of programs—may combine LIIFT4 with InsanityMax30)
Start going through the different e-courses that I’ve bought, taking notes and posting summaries on the blog
Continue working on the transition plan (again hopefully weekly summaries for blog)
As usual—continue networking and adding value to connections on linkedin
Work on my photography challenge (probably try to restart it in the middle of the month).
Start working on more science blogs posts for the page as well.
So how did I do with each one?
434,000 steps (This is still basically 14K/day; it may be less or it may be more—it depends on if I do any traveling this month). So my total number of steps for the month is below the goal of 434,000; but only by about ~31K. The final number of steps for the month of October was 402,888. This brings my yearly total to 4,459,004. I’m just a little over 500K away from my yearly goal of 5 million steps. Since there are 61 days left in the year, I have the possibility of getting another 854,000 steps in (14K/day)—if I manage that, I’ll get above 5 million for the year. So I’m not going to beat myself up over the fact that I didn’t get to or above 434,000 steps this month.
Trying to have my shakeology daily (breakfast, dinner, or snack)
I did manage to travel out to Boston for a week (and I didn’t pack any shakeology to take with me), and I think I only managed about half the month having my shakeology at some point during the day.
Read (or finish) at least 3 non-fiction books.
I’m about 2/3 of the way through “Drive: The Surprising Truth about what Motivates Us” by Daniel H. Pink. With my mood this month, I’ve stuck with a much lighter reading material.
Start working though the list of books that I’ve finished, but haven’t written a review over: This one didn’t get done. I haven’t added any books to the list, but I haven’t taken any off the list either.
Science of Intelligent Achievement by Isaiah Hankel
Self Talk: How to train your brain to turn negative thinking into positive thinking & practice self love by Aston Sanderson
Minimalist Living: Declutter your home, schedule, and digital life for simple living (and discover why less is more) by Aston Sanderson
Rewire your Habits: Establish Goals, Evolve your habits, & improve your relationships, health, finances, and free time by Zoe McKey
Thinking in Bets: making smart decisions when you don’t have all the facts by Annie Duke.
What your clutter is trying to tell you: Uncover the message in the mess and reclaim your life by Kerri L. Richardson
Limit what I buy on campus (pack lunch daily, including snacks)
Due to several issues (mainly the depression due to losing two dogs within a span of four days) this wasn’t the greatest this month. There have been numerous items bought on campus (ranging from coffee to lunch to snacks). I do need to try to be better about this as well.
Start another workout program (or a mix of programs—may combine LIIFT4 with InsanityMax30)
I’ve managed to do a little LIIFT4 this month (I think I managed it the second week of the month), but other than that I mainly used walking as my mood of exercise.
Start going through the different e-courses that I’ve bought, taking notes and posting summaries on the blog
Nope, this didn’t happen. It needs to start happening hopefully this coming month.
Continue working on the transition plan (again hopefully weekly summaries for blog)
This is still something I’m working on, but didn’t make much progress with it during October (especially in terms of trying to write blog posts about it).
As usual—continue networking and adding value to connections on linkedin
I did make some headway with this goal this month. I went to a couple of networking events out in Boston last week, and in addition to making some new connections on linkedin I got feedback on my resume & help with my elevator pitch.
Work on my photography challenge (probably try to restart it in the middle of the month).
Going to need to restart this one yet again. While I did quite a bit of photography on my mini vacation most of it was with my actual camera (not my phone—since it seems to be acting up in terms of allowing me to take pictures).
Start working on more science blogs posts for the page as well.
I started to draft the post for “Introduction to Central Dogma of Biology” but that is as far as I’ve gotten with my science posts for the page. This is also on my radar of things to try to get better at doing.
So what are my goals for going into November?
At least 420,000 steps (this breaks down to 14K/day—which will help me get above & beyond my yearly goal of 5 million steps—or have me close by the end of the month).
Shakeology daily—either breakfast or snack
Read (or finish) at least 3 non fiction books (write & post review)
Write reviews for the above books that I haven’t done yet
Limit my spending on campus (try to have consecutive no spend days)
Start another workout program (either another round of LIIFT4 or maybe Insanity Max30 or a mix of different programs)
Spend at least 45 minutes a day on personal/professional development (e-course related)
Networking & working on transition plan
Restart the photography challenge
Work on drafting editorial calendar for the blog and trying to post at least twice a week.
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