2011 Priority List and Goals – June Check-in

Here’s the check-in for June. You can see the original goals for 2011 here.

Family
I have still been reading regularly to David and loving it so much. I’m still keeping up with weekly family shoots, daily diary, gratitudes, and family night. Nathaniel and I are now taking a music class together. Jake and I haven’t done so well on date nights for June but we will rectify that for July.

Health
Going strong on the running and walking. Did 3.12 miles a day every day in June. Doing 40 leg lifts on each leg and 15 crunches a day. I’m not keeping track of the food but I am still eating salads daily and trying to lower my graham cracker intake. David and I are also taking daily walks still so my average step count per day has been around 10,500 or so. Sleep’s been ok. I am getting 7 hours or so a night but it doesn’t seem to be enough. I still feel tired so I need to come up with a better solution here.

Art + Photography
Sketching daily every day. A bit of a boring slump on that this month but I will take a step back and revamp things during July. Still doing weeklong art journaling and loving it. I’ve also added daily art journaling in June and I’ve been loving that too. Finally, I continued doing the truth cards in June, too. The photo excursion thing seems to be a bit of a bust.The etsy shop is also a bust I think.

Scrapbooking
June was a lot of for scrapping too. I did several layouts for Authentique Paper, Maya Road and Pink Paislee and I am still working on CHA work. I have a few more projects to do but then things should start slowing down. I have another guest spot coming up in September, too. I still have not been submitting to magazines but might start working on that again soon. I had a few other unusual opportunities in June but they won’t come up for a while. So far, so good.

Reading
Still reading my weekly book regularly. Reading to David, too. My book club was canceled for June so this goal didn’t happen.

Writing
This month hasn’t also not been strong on thoughts-posts. I’ve been thinking about them a lot but just not doing them. I use the small energy I have on the newsletters. I do have some class ideas in the works but I still don’t seem to want to work on them just yet. I’ve been diligent on the newsletter and happy to hear feedback if you’re getting them. I’m still not sure about NaNoWriMo but we’ll see. I’ve still been journaling up a storm and do it every weekday and sometimes even on the weekends and using that opportunity to improve my handwriting a bit, too.

Learning
Learning to draw, sketch, paint, art journal. In June I started Melody Ross’ Soul Restoration 2 and Alisa Burke’s Watercolor class. Loving both. Nothing on the iPad front yet or the stop motion movie.

Community (This is a particularly hard one for me.)
Going strong on the mom’s group and our June guests are coming tomorrow and it will be a big group. I’ve been quiet in June partly cause things have been so busy. I will try to do better for July.

And that’s it for June. Overall, I think I did pretty great. Lots of good goals met. Let’s bring on July!