After last week’s post on how to do a half-year review, I have now finished my own half-year review. Let’s break this down with some concrete numbers and then move into the intangibles.
I set a certain number of goals every month and I track the progress at the end. According to my spreadsheet, I’m at 79% of my goals for the year – two months with 90-something, two months with 60-something and a month each with 70- and 80-something. That’s what resulted in the 79% average.
It feels accurate and like with life, some things go very well and others go very badly.
Things going very well:
- My reading and fun stuff like photos. I have read so many fun and delightful books this year already and am above my target with 60 books to end June.
- Sleep (I’m averaging 7:30 and a sleep score of 80) and exercise (in a good rhythm of 3 workouts per week – any more and other areas of my life fall over).
- Work – I had a great performance discussion. This is especially nice since I’m in a new role.
- Speaking of work, working at the office two days a week since March has been amazing for this extrovert. I am simply happier ๐
- Project Upgrade/ Fix. Things other than what I planned have jumped onto the list but the good things is since my project is top of mind, I’m attending to things quickly, even boring fixes like plumbing!
- The kids seem to have settled well into Grade 7, both for academics, sports and friendships… just in time to go to high school next year ๐
- We’ve had all the holidays we planned which is honestly surprising since I’m a) very fussy and b) disorganised this year.
Things going badly
- #rest 22 in 2022 (I rate myself only at a 43% success because I only consciously rest 3 out of 7 days). As Sarah said on the BOBW podcast, I do rest very well by sleeping every night. I’m considering just…giving up!
- Our laundry routine still needs lots of work. It feels like a small thing but it affects my weekends more than I’d like.
- We have made 0% progress on renewing our passports or reapplying for the kids’ passports (we got about halfway just prior to 2020 lockdown).
- I feel more anxious when out with the general public now that South Africa’s mask mandate has been removed.
What do I want for the second half of the year?
- Better health
- I had two scary episodes of vertigo in the last three months; I was actually so sick at work one day it was awful.
- I’ve had full bloods done and I am nowhere near menopause yet but headaches, etc. I mean, honestly.
- I also have my mammogram scheduled for tomorrow and want to check one more thing with my doctor.
- I also need to keep my cholesterol in check; after two elevated reports, I went for proper blood tests and not only was the result good, but my LDL was low and my HDL was high. According to my goals list, I will check this quarterly.
- I also want to read/ follow a good menopause doctor – there are so many symptoms…. how do people know if it’s something else or a menopause symptom?
- To make a good dent in my life admin – I need to upgrade my phone and I already have decision fatigue so I will put it off til I can’t anymore and then just decide ๐
- Get updated wills done
Now, I kind-of feel like I need to have a birthday party next month (also, my birthday’s on an actual Saturday this year!) but do I have the wherewithall to organise it?