Re-evaluation for February....

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Okay, so it's March 1st.
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A good month for accomplishing things, once again.
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#1 - a continuous trend of health. I am walking regularly and watching my calories much better than the last few years. I still splurge on occasion but not on a daily basis. I read the nutritional information on the labels to get the serving amount and stick to that. I ate my 13 Cheetos for lunch one day last week. It is certainly much less than the normal serving I used to eat...straight out of the bag, one by one, until i just didn't want any more. Now, I know that I was eating at least two servings at a sitting!!! Double the calories. And sometimes, I ate half the bag before I stopped! No more.
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I fit in my red jeans without any problems and I can wear any pair of jeans, pants and capris that I own (save for the CKs size 9 that I can't bear to part with!!!).
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At my dr. appt, the nurse practitioner was very pleased with my FBS results. She said I didn't need to keep taking my blood sugar everyday. We decided on once a week. So, I have cut back to that. I had a high reading on Monday of this week after a weekend of splurging. I am back down to a 102 (FBS done on Wed.) so I am reflecting on how easily I can bring up that blood sugar and what foods cause it. It is such a balancing act and I am glad I have it under control....my control. I won't let it control me!
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My weight has plateaued at 162-ish. Even though I don't record it in my blog, I do weigh myself daily and even more. I figure this month will be the month that I will drop below 160. I can feel it. My clothes are fitting differently around my hips and my waist is shrinking ever-so-slightly. It helps to be doing sit ups everyday...well, almost everyday!!! *grin*
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The Relay For Life next month will be a challenge and one that I am excited to be doing. My goal is to walk all 18 hours with a 5-10 minute break each hour for necessities. I hope to raise $250 this year and will be increasing that goal next year.
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#2 - Perfumes have been used regularly. I went through every bottle I own. Goal achieved. March is the same goal - 4 days a week average useage.
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#3 - Lotions and creams are being used up. I also opened another body wash so I have 4 of those going right now. I like variety and the scents are oh so nice!!! Goal for March is to continue using them everyday until finished.
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#4 - Ah the letter writing...goal not achieved...at all. I didn't write any letter I said I would. *sigh* So, this one is at the front of the line now. I know I have been thinking about it most of the month but I didn't take the time to sit down and write. For March, I will write one letter by the 7th and record it on my goals blog then reevaluate for the next week. A week by week goal since the month ones didn't work for the last two months.
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#5 - No crafting in February. I was busy reorganizing other things. This goal is important to me but I guess it wasn't as important as other goals. I didn't write those goals on the blog. I am going to let go of this goal for March and put up some others that are more important to me. Then I will get back to this one in April.
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#6 - I did scan in the 20 pictures I set out to do. Not only that but I also have reorganized the pictures better for scanning and I am putting my mother's pictures in photo boxes and indexing them so that I can prepare to scrapbook them. I spent quite a bit of time in February doing this and it was successful to organizing space in the master bedroom. I will continue, in March, to set a goal of organizing more pictures 3 days a week until they are all indexed by date. I won't finish indexing all of them by the end of this month. It will be on going. What is hard right now is scanning them because I haven't decided what pictures from each set that I want to keep. My mother took a lot of pictures of various flowers, cloud pictures from airplanes, etc that I want to use in some type of scrapbook about her but I don't necessarily want to keep all of those pictures scanned in for me. So, my goal for March is to scan 20 pictures for the month (not much but doable).
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#7 - I didn't craft at all as stated earlier. I bought some Valentine's Day things that I put out for the month. Crafting is on the back burner. So, no goal for March.
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#8 - With that said, I have decided to have a new March goal of going through more boxes 2 days each week. I want to down size the amount of boxes in the master bedroom by 5 for the month of March.
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#9 - The other new goal is to organize all the receipts with their CC# and file them properly. If I can achieve this goal, I will set a goal for April of starting to go through old receipts so we can start shredding them and make more room in the file cabinet for other files.
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February doesn't seem very successful by looking at the above comments. However, I did find that I was more productive than in previous years. My accomplishments are felt inside. My priorities are clearer and I think by the middle of the year, I will feel very accomplished. More than in the last 5 years. The goals I set are a guideline and I am functioning better because I have worked on most of them. I don't want to feel "stuck" because I feel pressured into doing only the blog goals. In my day, I think about a lot more than just what is in writing. Some of these thoughts are more important to complete. Overall, I am feeling very good about my achievements and setting a course for success in this pivotal year.
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