December Goals

I cannot believe December is here already! And we’re a week in!

I’m going to be honest: November was a tough month for me! School really took its toll this month, which is why I haven’t been as active around here for the last few weeks.

On that note, though, I cannot thank enough all of my lovely guest posters! I so appreciated you writing for my blog, and I couldn’t have done this month without you guys!

In case you don’t know, I decided that I want to achieve three things in my life: greater unity with God, greater achievement/organization in school, and less of a consumer-based lifestyle. To help achieve those goals, each month I create goals for each of those categories to help get me a bit closer!

Let’s look at how I did last month:

November Goals

Spiritual goal: read at least one chapter every day from the Bible

I did OK on this one actually! I missed about a week when it got really busy but I am really happy with the changes that I made this month. I’m definitely going to challenge myself again for December.

School goal: Do not get behind on readings

COMPLETE! I actually freaking DID this one! I am so happy with myself—I got behind on some assignments but that doesn’t stress me out nearly as much as being behind in readings, so I am so happy that I stuck with this one!

Lifestyle goal: do not buy convenience food all month

Meh? I only bought lunch twice, and both of them were on weekends, but I bought snacks with some friends a couple of times so I didn’t do too well with this one!

What I learned last month is that my downfall is stress. When I get stressed, I tend to shut down and become extremely unproductive. Anxiety makes some people work harder, it makes me just get extremely lethargic. So, this month, I want to work on stopping the stress before it starts, with these goals!

Spiritual goal: start prayer-journalling again.

I have always been obsessed with journalling, and this month I’ve actually been working on an introspective school assignment that’s forced me to re-read all of my old journals from high school and I’m remembering how much I used to love writing. I haven’t put aside time for it recently, and I really miss it. So I’m going to start prayer journaling again at least one page a day to help me get back into the habit of making prayer a part of my daily life.

School goal: Work a MINIMUM of 4 hours a day on my thesis.

This may seem like a lot, especially since I’ll be on break, but since I am completing my thesis two months before everyone else, Christmas break is a perfect opportunity to get ahead so that it’s not nearly as stressful later down the line. Obviously I’ll take a little break while I visit my family over Christmas, but I really want to get ahead so that when the semester starts I don’t get behind in my other courses or feel overwhelmed.

Lifestyle goal: Do not buy anything for myself this month

This is a big one—I don’t want to buy anything for myself this month, no clothes, no new books, no beauty products, etc. I’m working on using up what I already have, and I think that this will be a huge change in my mindset and hopefully show me how to use what I have, rather than just want want want. Of course, I’ll still buy Christmas presents and the like, but no little treats for myself.