Goals

Its that time of the year again. Let’s see how I ended up the year on my goals. I think its important to both list out the successes, and failures, publicly. Its about accountability and I think a little transparency helps people understand some of the struggles that we all have and how we are trying to make ourselves better. So let’s get started.

• Drop the next 10 lbs - FAIL! I’d like to say I knocked this one out of the park with my successes at the beginning of the year. But, I cannot say that is true. I was down a full 10 lbs at one point. But then work got the better of me with not doing enough working out and a LOT of eating. reCharge helped until it didn’t. The last week was a bit rough with a family reunion and then a trip out to California to see a buddy. We may have enjoyed ourselves a little too much out there with food and booze. The end of the year didn’t help spending a week in the hospital with my son fighting RSV. I stress ate and didn’t take care of myself like I should have. These are reasons, not excuses, to why I didn’t make this goal. If anything, right now I’m right back where I started from. I’m going to get there and try some different things for 2020 around this goal.

Well, we’re at the mid year, so let’s see where we have gotten with our goals for the year.

• Drop the next 10 lbs - I joined a group of Rockin Dad (our Facebook Down Syndrome Group) to do a weight challenge. It was slow and steady work, but I’ve almost accomplished this one. As of June 14th the last day of the competition, I lost a grand total of 8.3 pounds. It doesn’t hurt that I was away from work and the delicious breakfasts for a month on reCharge.

I’ve been doing nothing but reviews at work and setting goals before that. Time for my personal goals for the year.

• Drop the next 10 lbs - This is a carry over from 2018 where I didn’t do near as well as I would have liked. A big portion of that is how I have been eating. So this yaer, I’d like to get down 10lbs+, eat better and hopfully it can help with energy levels. With 3 boys at home, 2 of which are getting even more active as they grow, its getting harder to keep up .

Another year, another time to see how we did on the goals for the year. Not going to lie, this one may be rough.

• Bot Up! - This was an idea to get a bot out the door. Safe to say, I did not the find the time to get this out the door. Kids, work, and other things got in the way of having some time in my night hours to work on some things that I wanted to work on. This is a nice to have, I have a lot of things that I’d like to write. But when you get done picking up the house and finally getting a chance to sit on the couch at 9 at night. My motivation to do anything else is pretty low.

Its the middle of the year and we just finished up the heavy lift of our half reviews at work. Lots of peer, self and upward reviews being written before we dive into final rating discussions. Its a busy time of the year but also a really good time for us to check in and see how we are doing. So let’s see where we are at with my personal goals.