Review of October Goals

Business

• Pageviews to 15,000 and uniques to 13,000. I’m at 13,300 and 11,900
• Book 3 vacations. It is National Plan a Cruise Month! Who is ready to plan a cruise? NONE!
• Sign 2 new Plexus Ambassadors and find 5 new customers. NONE

Personal

• Walk 5000 steps a day. I averaged about 3,000 steps a day.
• Drink 100 oz of water a day. Not even close
• Lose 5 pounds. I lost 2 lbs.

Spiritual

• Finish Believing God . Only 3 lessons left!

Household

• Menu plan. Done
• Daily Chores-I started a new way to organize this last week. So far so good!

Overall, once I got back home from all of my traveling on October 12th, it took me a whole week to just find my bearings again. Three weeks in a row out of the office is very crazy! Last week and this week, life has been back to “normal” so I am eagerly looking forward to November.

November Goals

Business

• Pageviews to 15,000 and uniques to 13,000.
• Book 3 vacations. It’s not too late to plan a Cruise or Disney vacation for the holidays!
• Sign 2 new Plexus Ambassadors and find 5 new customers.

Personal

• Walk 5000 steps a day. I’m doing a 21 day walking challenge with Leslie Sansone’s Walk at Home program so hopefully I will surpass this goal.
• Drink 100 oz of water a day.
• Lose 5 pounds

Spiritual

• Work through Good or God?: Why Good Without God Isn’t Enough by John Bevere. This may take more than a month.

Household

• Menu plan-Already done!
• Daily Chores-I’m trying a new way to organize these, I’ll let you know how it goes!
• Decorate for Christmas the week before Thanksgiving!

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Review of August Goals

Business

• Pageviews back over 10,000. Thanks to the amazing recipe site Yummly, my Pageviews were over 13,000 and my uniques were over 11,000.
• Book at least 3 vacations. Where do you want to go? Visit my Travel Quote Page to get started. I didn’t book any vacations August was very slow on the travel front-probably because everyone was traveling!

Personal

• 5000 steps a day-I reached this goal about 1/3 of the time.
• 64oz water a day-I reached this goal every day!
• Lose 5 pounds-I lost 3.3 pounds

Spiritual

• Finish reading “Thrive”-I’ve laid this aside for now.
• Start the “Believing God” Beth Moore Bible Study with Women’s Bible Cafe. I’m loving this Bible Study!

Household

• Menu Plan-done
• Daily Chores-not done
• Gut my closet-done lots and lots of stuff went to Goodwill!

Goals for September 2015

I feel like my goal should be…Don’t go insane! LOL I will be volunteering at Sharathon for The Joy FM Sept 22-25 from 5:45am-8pm every day and then on September 26, we leave on a 7 night Easter Caribbean Cruise! I have yet to figure out when I am going to do laundry and pack. Plus I need to pre-write my blog posts etc! So Don’t go insane, will be my over-arching goal this month but now I need to get specific.

Business

• Pageviews to 15,000 and uniques to 13,000. That is a big goal when I will be away from my computer for at least 13 days this month!
• Book 3 vacations. Now is the time to plan your Fall and Winter cruises or trips to Walt Disney World. Visit my Travel Quote page for more information.
• Sign 2 new Plexus Ambassadors and find 5 new customers.

Personal

• Walk 5000 steps a day. This will be easy on the cruise, not so easy during Sharathon.
• Drink 100 oz of water a day.
• Lose 5 pounds

Spiritual

• Continue with my “Believing God Bible Study”
• Begin to read “Good or God” by John Bevere

Household

• Menu plan
• Daily Chores

How is your September shaping up? I hope yours is as fun as mine is going to be!

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Review of February Goals

Business

• <Gasp> I haven’t even looked at the Type-A February Challenge. It came out late, mid-month and I haven’t had time.
• I’m almost done with my media kit from the Media Kit Smash class! The class was awesome. I just have some tweaking to do.
• My pageviews are up over 20% YAY! Thanks for your help.
• My weekly newsletter  is set up and will start in March. You can subscribe here. Also, I’d love for you to take my 3 question Newsletter Survey
• I have started writing my eBook but I am a bit behind schedule.

Personal

• Still failing at the water consumption.
• I’m averaging 3,392 steps a day. I need to get moving more.
• We still haven’t found a time that works to get together with Aaron & Summer regularly. Aaron is working a lot of evening events lately.
• I have done well on my reading goal. I finished Kingdom Keepers V: Shell Game. 

Spiritual

• I am a few days behind on my Bible study but I am loving Covenant: Gods Enduring Promises by Kay Arthur.

Household

• Meal planning is still on track
• Living Room corners and media area de-cluttered
• Game closet de-cluttered

Overall, February was an ok month. Some goals have been hit and others still need a little more work.

March 2015 Goals

Business

• 15,000 pageviews. we are close and with your help, we can get there.
• Type-A Challenge for February and March
• Get half way through eBook writing

Personal

• 5,000 steps a day minimum-this is going to take a lot of work
• 64oz of water a day
• Continue reading a chapter a day for pleasure

Spiritual

• Complete the Covenant Bible study on time
• Sign up for another Bible study with WomensBibleCafe. I’m leaning towards How to Study Your Bible: Discover the Life-Changing Approach to God’s Word.

Household

• Keep up the meal planning
• Get back on schedule with daily chores
• Continue work in the den/office
• De-clutter kitchen

You may remember, I am part of a Facebook group that encourages each other as we set and work towards our goals. We have created this linky so that we can share these goals. If you write about your goals, please feel free to link up with us

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Review of April Goals

Business

• My traffic is stagnant and I am just under 10,000 pageviews this month UGH!
• I did launch my Young Living business in April.
• I didn’t work on my ebook at all
• I haven’t completed the Type-A Challenges at all.

Personal

• Thanks in large part to my Disney days my per day average was 4,166 steps.
• My water consumption has been about half what it should be.
• I didn’t read at all.

Spiritual

• I finished the Covenant study-it was wonderful.
• I have yet to start Thrive.

Household

• I’ve done better at keeping the kitchen sink clean.
• Daily chores are better but not where they should be.
• The white dresser still hasn’t made its way into my office.
• I didn’t meal plan in April!

May 2015 Goals

I’m cutting back to 2 goals per section for May and see if that helps me to focus on those goals and not get overwhelmed and frustrated.

Business

• Pageviews to 12,500
• Begin to build my Young Living Essential Oils business

Personal

• 5,000 steps per day
• 64oz water a day

Spiritual

• Read “Thrive”
• Add a daily devotional from Youversion

Household

• Menu plan for May
• Daily chores

Join our Linky

I have simplified my goals for the month so that I can have more success. Join the rest of our group in blogging your goals and linking them up here.

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Make sure you enter my Sesame Street Live giveaway of you are in Central Florida and my Revolution Worship Live CD giveaway. I have lots of other great giveaways coming up as my 2011 Holiday Guide goes into full gear this week.

Pleas stop by my Facebook page and vote in the poll I have going there. The topic is giveaways.

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The history of Mindbloom: Two entrepreneurial dads, who happen to be the former executive producer of blockbuster game hits like F.E.A.R and Tron and a former Amazon executive, have created a life game on steroids that promises to rock the field of wellness and personal growth. Mindbloom’s goal is to put the power of behavioral science behind the social gaming phenomenon to inspire people to achieve their offline life priorities – health, lifestyle, career, creativity, relationships, finances, and spirituality. For example, in beta, they  discovered that users are already experiencing a few everyday victories in the physical world such as calling their parents more, calmly responding to issues instead of blaming and criticizing their spouse, brewing their coffee to save money on lattes, and drinking 8 oz of water daily. The founders created the company during an Oprah moment (literally) after putting on a few “sympathy” pounds and realizing they were missing too many “daddy moments.”

The photo above is of my tree, as it looked this morning. In Mindbloom the leaves are your goals. Goals you have set in various life areas…career, relationships, creativity, spirituality, health, and more. I visit Mindbloom twice a day. In the morning I visit and spend a few minutes being inspired by either watching my personalized inspiration slide show (my online vision board) or by viewing community inspiration and adding new inspirational quotes, images and/or music to my slide show. By adding to my inspiration I receive sun points, when you achieve 100 sun points the sun nourishes your tree and gives it a healthy glow. Next I take a look at which goals I have scheduled to work on today. I have some goals that occur every day and others that-due to my schedule are scheduled for specific days of the week. If I have already complete some of the goals I mark them off, otherwise I just remind myself what today’s goal are so that I can incorporate them into my day. Then at the end of the day I visit Mindbloom again and and check off the goals that I accomplished-which adds rain points to my cloud. When I achieve 100 rain points my cloud waters my tree and makes it sparkle.

Your Mindbloom goals can be simple things like drink water, take a walk, spend one-on-one time with your child, write a to-do list-or more involved things move money into the vacation account, write a thought provoking article, read a chapter in the Bible. The goals can be customized to exactly what you need in your life right now!

I have enjoyed my 3 weeks on Mindbloom, and I have seen growth in some areas of my life and that small dark brown leaf on my tree is my lifestyle leaf for “reading for pleasure” which is something I haven’t done in 2 weeks and I need to do…today! The game itself is easy to use and easy to customize. The joy of Mindbloom is you make it what you need it to be. Mindbloom is also social, you are not the only tree in the forest. You can set your privacy settings however you want and your friends can comment on your journal entries and even give you gifts of sunshine or rain for your tree to help encourage you along! In my opinion, the only downside of Mindbloom is that they don’t have an app-you just use the mobile website which is limited but not terrible, I’d be happier if there was an Android app available. The game is free but…there are premium features available and I am giving away 5 lifetime premium GrowPro packages ($89 value) he GrowPro package provides access to premium content, rewards, and more.

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Here is a bit of a video intro to Mindbloom.

I’ve just started my free Mindbloom account and so far I really like the interface-it is clean and easy to use. I am going to use the site for a few weeks and then I’ll give you a full review. At that time I’ll also be holding a giveaway for some of the premium features in Mindbloom. So, go to Mindbloom.com and get started growing your life. Make sure you add me as a friend (Cindy Schultz) and then keep checking back for that review and giveaway.

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My kids no longer have chore charts, they know what needs to be done…and they do it (usually) :-)! I’m sure my boys would have responded well to the GoalForIt chore chart because they can be customized with graphics that they like ie. race cars or sports themes. The charts can be used online and off because each chart is printable. Another cool feature is the email reminders. You can set an email reminder to be sent to remind your child to check their chart. You can also assign points to each activity or behavior and if you succeed at completing that goal for the day you put a star or check mark on your chart and earn the points for that activity. Your child can bank their points and use them towards rewards you set up.

If I were to use this for my kids I would set up the chart and rewards online and then print the chart and hang it on my son’s bedroom door as a reminder of what needs to be done. I would have the system send him a reminder email at 4:00pm to remind him to check in on the site and update his chart. This puts him in charge of his responsibilities and instead of me nagging him, he gets an email reminder instead.

I decided to set up a goal chart for myself to help me reach some healthy living goals I have set for myself. Here is my chart: 
As you can see I haven’t done a great job this week but I will keep moving forward!

If you are looking for FREE chore charts and behavioral charts I recommend you check out what GoalForIt.com has to offer.

Disclosure: I wrote this review through a partnership with MomSelect. I am being compensated for this review all opinions are 100% mine.

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