August Goals

Can you believe that it's August already?? My summer internship ended last week, and all I have left is about 2 1/2 weeks before I leave for my last year of college. It's crazy to think how fast this summer went by.

To kick the month off, I thought I'd post some of my goals for August in order to hold myself accountable. There is so much I have to do in theses next couple weeks before heading off to school again, that it will be nice to have a "to-do" list of goals to keep me in check.

Goal #1: Edit My Resume

This is an absolute must before going back to college later this month. I have to update it with my new GPA from spring semester as well as with my internship experience that I had this summer. The job search begins practically right away when I get back to college, with the fall Career Fair coming up in the first week of September. I definitely want to have this out of the way before things get hectic and busy at the start of the semester!

Goal #2: Finish My Summer Reading

Okay, I don't have assigned reading for school or anything, but I did buy a bunch of books off of Amazon at the end of spring semester that I haven't finished yet. I read about half of them so far, but I'd really like to finish the rest of them before school starts and I don't have a bunch of free time anymore.

Goal #3: Finish Setting Up My Agenda

This is another thing I want to have done before school starts. Nothing beats having an already planned and organized agenda once school comes around. Organizing my agenda before school starts with dates and deadlines for all my classes, extracurriculars and work times will hopefully allow for little less stressful start of the year. Besides, being on top of things never hurt anybody ;)

Goal #4: Start Packing for College In Advance

The goal is to be all done packing prior to the night before I have to leave. The past two years, I've always waited until the very last possible minute, which always leads to me forgetting something and getting off to a very late start on the road. So here's to hoping my last year of college starts off on the right foot, with everything packed and ready to go before I have to leave.

Goal #5: Actually Blog At Least Twice A Week

Seriously, I am the worst. Here I was starting this new blog, and I just really fell of the bandwagon. Blogging is something I really want to start doing on a somewhat regular basis, and I'd really like to grow this blog. It's definitely going to be a lot of work, but it's all about the journey, right? Plus, with this being my last year of college, I'd definitely like to start documenting things.

My goals for August are pretty much just a mini to-do list for myself before I go back to college, but it's that time of year I guess.

What are some of your goals for August?

April Goals - 2016

Happy Friday and also happy first day of April! Is it just me or did these first few months of 2016 go by really fast?

For me, April marks the last month of the semester, aka the real make-it-or-break it time for college students. It’s going to be crazy and hectic, but even so, I’ve set a few goals for myself for the month. I always enjoy reading these sorts of posts on other blogs, so I thought I’d post my goals on my blog as well!

So let's get onto the goals, shall we?

1. Go to the gym at least 3x per week

Yep, the good ol’ fitness goal. Going to the gym at least 3x a week was one of the goals for 2016 that I made back in January. I was doing a pretty good job with it until Spring Break happened a couple of weeks ago. During SB and the past couple of weeks, I really fell off the bandwagon with working out and going to the gym. Now it’s time to get back on track in April, especially with summer right around the corner!

2. Start cleaning out my dorm room each week

My dorm room is currently a tornado zone. I’ve been living in a single this year and don’t have a roommate, so I haven’t been as motivated to clean up after myself as much as I should. I’m going to try to clean/pack more each weekend up until the end of April so that it’s not such a hassle and as much of a mess to clean up come move out day. Plus, after finals week I won’t be feeling too much like doing a lot of extra packing and cleaning, so I might as well start doing it and breaking it down into more doable chunks.

3. Finish 30,000 words during Camp NaNo

Have you guys ever heard of NaNoWriMo? If you haven’t, NaNoWriMo is a non-profit organization that helps motivate/foster a sort of writing community for people to write a novel in the month of November each year. I participated for the second time back in November 2015, and surprised myself in that I actually met the 50,000 word benchmark goal for NaNoWriMo. I’ve always loved to write, and although I made it past the 50,000 word benchmark, I never finished the book I was writing. 

So, this brings us to Camp NaNoWriMo. Camp NaNoWriMo is sort of a mini version of NaNoWriMo that runs during the month of April, and you’re allowed to pick your own word-count goal. I’m choosing to set my goal at 30,000 words because although I’d love to try to write more, with finals looming over my head and such, 30,000 words is probably already a little bit of a stretch.  But hopefully with Camp NaNo it’ll give me the little push to finally finish the first draft of the novel I’m writing.

4. Create at least 2 blog posts a week

I told myself before starting this third blog of mine that if I’m going to start yet another blog, I’m going to have to really commit myself to it. So far, I’m off to a bad start. I haven’t fully finished designing the layout yet, so things like an “about me” page will hopefully be up as soon as possible! But in the meantime, I would like to start posting at least 2x per week during April so that I can start getting some content out there and start building up my blog a little bit.

5. Drink at least 2 water bottles full of water each day

This goal was another one of the 2016 goals that I made for myself in January. And just like my fitness goal, I was doing really well on this up until SB. I’m sure I'm probably supposed to be drinking way more water than this, but hey, it's a start. Once I make sure I’m drinking more water regularly, I can build from it.

What are some of the goals you have for April?