When I was praying about the goals I should set for 2018 at the end of 2017 I felt God prompting me not to make many year-long goals because it was going to be a rather crazy year. I am so thankful for that. I only set seven Year-Long goals and even though I didn’t accomplish all of the goals, it was pretty much perfect.

Year-Long Goals 

1. Write Weekly and Monthly Goals – YES 
2. Fifteen Days of Paleo each month – NO
3. Review All the Books I Read – YES 
4. Finish Echoes and When Life Hands You Lymes – NO
5. Query One – Technically YES, but not exactly how I was meaning 
6. Three Months of Children’s Church – YES {Actually 11 months, so yay}
7. Vlog Once a Week – YES 

Writing weekly and monthly goals was a really great way to assess each month of 2018 and then set goals accordingly. Altogether I had a total of 126 monthly goals, and here’s the breakdown of how I did on them:
101 YES
22 NO
3 Forgotten

And because I like looking back and seeing what each month was spent focusing on, I’m including the monthly goals below.

January

1. Edit 7,000 words {YES – plus more}
2. Prep for Junior Church {YES}
3. Dorcas’s Wedding {YES}
4. Car Title Work {YES}
5. Money-ish Work (figuring some things out) {YES}
6. Four vlogs {YES}
7. Walk 20 miles {YES}
8. Eat Paleo 20 days (my version) {YES}
9. Bed by 10:30 10 times {YES}
10. Research Scrivener 2 hours {YES}
11. Weekly Goals {YES}
12. Bathroom cleaned once a week {NO – 3/4}
13. Blog by 9:30 10 times {YES}

February

1. Work for HIS 20 Hours (if certain things happened that made the work available – they didn’t, so this goal was void).
2. Keep track of Coffee Shop Hours – YES
3. Edit Ten Thousand Words – YES
4. Help Sarah with the baby – YES
5. Help Hosanna move – YES
6. Teach Junior Church each Sunday – YES
7. Vlog each week – YES
8. Post by 9:30 15 times – NO {only 14 times}
9. Walk 22 Miles – YES
10. Eat Paleo 20 Days – YES
11. Eat fresh veggies or fruit twice a day for 20 Days – YES
12. Bed by 10:30 12 Times – YES
13. Weekly Goals – YES

March

1. Help Hosanna settle in – YES
2. Go to Mission Conference – YES
3. Edit 10,000 words – NO
4. Read and Review 4 Books – NO  
5. Work out at least 4 times a week – NO
6. THM/Paleo 10 days – YES
7. Track Coffee Shop Hours – YES
8. Vlog each week – YES
9. Spend 5 hours on networking – YES
10. Mat twice a week when home – YES
11. Jr. Church prep each week – NO
12. Credit card research – YES
13. Track in planner 20 days – NO 
14. Write to-do list 31 days – NO 
15. Something special for Helena and Mariah – YES

April

1. No dairy 15 days – NO
2. A to Z Challenge – Haha. YES, but not the correct way
3. Comment 150 times on A to Z Posts – NO
4. Four books Reviewed – NO
5. Train 15 times – YES
6. Track Coffee Shop Hours – YES
7. Find Theme for Children’s Church – YES
8. Celebrate (things with family) – YES
9. Spend quality time with sisters – YES

May

1.Deep, deep, deep clean my room {YES}
2. Schedule vlogs before Mexico {YES}
3. Full vacation mode in Mexico – no computer, etc… {YES}
4. Set up library for vlogging, etc… {YES}
5. Thyroid work {YES}
6. Begin new blogging schedule {YES}
7. Write 10 book reviews {YES}
8. Beginning training again for half marathon {No}
9. See Aubrey {YES}
10. Work lots at coffee shop {YES}

June

1. Strict Paleo for 28 Days – YES {I might have been a day or two off cause of the retreat, but I should have factored that in. I count this as a total win.}
2. Clean Car – YES
3. Huge Week at Retreat Job – YES
4. Track Spending – NO
5. Write 7,000 Words – NO
6. Start Doing Bookstagram Pictures – YES
7. Keep Up with Cutting Grass – YES
8. Take The Rest of my Giveaway Stuff to Goodwill – NO

July

1.Family Camping Time – YES
2. Prep and teach VBS – YES
3. Mariah’s TN Bridal Shower – YES
4. Order Bridesmaid dress – YES
5. Try on Helena’s Dress – NO 
6. Help Plan Mariah’s Bridal Shower and Bachelorette Party – YES
7. Buy Gifts for Mariah – YES
8. Send adopted parents pages – NO 
9. Visit adopted parents – YES
10. Weed each week – NO 
11. Work on Helena’s Bridal Shower Planning – YES
12. Bethany Publishers Form – YES
13. Bed by 10:30 eight times – YES
14. New Ivy pots – YES
15. Healthy living – NO 

August

1. Mariah’s Bridal Shower – YES
2. Mariah’s Bachelorette Party – YES
3. Mariah’s Wedding – YES
4. Dress for Helena’s Wedding dress – YES
5. Work on planning Helena’s Bridal Shower – YES
6. 10 sit-ups each day – YES (missed one day)
7. Walk/Run 15 Miles – I don’t remember (oops)
8. Catch up on Emails – I don’t remember (oops)
9. Beta read – YES
10. Alexa’s birthday party – YES
11. Find helper for Children’s Church – YES
12. Bed by 10:30 ten times – I don’t remember (oops)

September 

1. Helena’s Bridal Shower – YES
2. Helena’s Bachelorette weekend – YES
3. 15 Sit-ups a day – YES

October
 
1. The wedding = YES
2. Begin editing again = YES
3. Proofread GTW = YES
4. Begin beta reading Dreams = YES
5. 10 Sit-ups a day = YES
6. Begin blogging 3+ times a week again = YES
7. Church Young Adult Retreat = YES
8. Get out winter clothing = YES

November

1. Walk 20 Miles (bonus 30 miles) – YES & YES
2. Track all money spent – YES
3. Thanksgiving with family – YES
4. Stay with skunk mama – YES
5. Review 4 books – YES
6. Read 3 non-fiction books – YES
7. Cook at Youth Retreat – YES
8. Blog 4 days a week – YES
9. Beta Read twice a week – NO
10. Edit 3 times a week except for last week – NO

December

1. Answer all my emails/clean out inbox – YES
2. Walk 40 Miles – NO 
3. Focus on quality family time – YES
4. Review 2018 – YES
5. Pray about and set goals for 2019 – YES
6. Finish book reviews for the year – YES
7. 12 Bookish Photos – YES
8. Work on WLHYL 10 days – NO 
9. 15 Blog Posts on Noveltea – YES
10. Christmas, etc… – YES
11. End the Year with a clean car and room – YES
12. Read Within These Lines  – YES