How to do a Midyear Review
FML When it feels like it’s already been a year
Howdy Friends,
It has been a year in this first 6 months hasn’t it. If you are anything like me and just realizing most of your goals are not super feasible this year because of 🙄 circumstances… time for a review and reset.
I dunno about you, but I’ve been pretty much survival mode, we moved – which I plan to write a little about later if you are interested in what I brought with me since all my crafts had to be left behind 😭 it had to fit in a single, mind your adorable I bought for this move, bag.
So we got laid off late last year, both of us. Moved early in the new year with family to save money on rent, PLUS we knew we wanted to move so might as well. Politics is a mess. Economy sucks. I finally started getting interviews after the initial 100+ applications, usual for most layoffs but my god this administration is not making it easy for workers are they.
I didn’t mention much here, but our bunny passed away in MAR as well, he was our bay for 9+ years and he got sick. It was devastating but we are doing better now, we still miss him.
And it’s hot, we’ll in FL. I am so unhappy with how hot it is. 😭 I cannot express how hard it is coming from Denver, where it is still 50s some days, to 95 already here in FL. The spring was OK and not bad, we worked up to that 90+ for sure but now its summer and we are trying to find a way to move north as soon as we can, either way for relief.
We absolutely did all the things we felt comfortable spending on so FL peeps, don’t worry we maximized out time here. And I am going to his Daiso up once more before we leave in Tampa >>; still annoyed they put one in Fort Collins when I moved.
Remember your goals are abstract, you can change them anytime.
I start a goal review with reviewing what I did and where I was with each goal. For me I just take a new color of text and journal essentially, next to each item. I add notes, new goals or expansion on items of the original goal sheet.
Then I am make a copy and adjust accordingly. For example, you may see if my start of year health goals:
Goal 🠖 better health
- Weight – Try to get on Ozempic OR qualify for surgery Feeling great with Ozempic, I am losing slowly but still able to keep it pretty sustainable
My note italicized, there. Then I expanded on it in my new set. My new health goals are broken down a little differently and I crossed off the top one since I was able to try it.
∎ Weight
Try to get on Ozempic OR qualify for surgery- Get back on Ozempic
- Log food
- Eat hormonally – don’t fast as much as needed
∎ Misc
- Movement; FL – 2x a week (with adjustment to 5000 steps a day later)
- Movement – visit 2 parks a month
- Dental – Find a dentist
- Dental – bridge
- Dental – investigate snap in company
Sleep – adjust to mask, sleep in bedAllergies – see DR and get options- Eyes – get the BVD glasses
- Food – eat less meat
- Eat seasonally
- Eat more veggies
- Recipes – try 2 new ones a month
It’s very similar but I adjusted my goals with the new knowledge I have. For example, I hate walking and I am not walking in FL cause its friggin hot. So I snuck that down to just movement 2x a week with a goal when we move to just do more. Based on what I walked when it was cooler here, I should get this done in 30 minutes a day. And if we move, I’ll have my walking pad again, cause F* this heat. I adjusted a few more such as recipes PER month instead of a total goal. I am without my own kitchen so it is what it is.
I also updated my notion tracker, I completely redid it to hopefully help with the tasks tracking on the side stuff. So far it’s helping.
My home, family, travel, charity and marriage goals are all shot right now so not much action is in there. It was not the goal but it is the reality. I am really hopeful we’ll get settled before summer hits too hard.
We are fortunate to have family to fall back on and I know not everyone can, but we want to get back to living on our own and continuing forward.
Don’t be afraid to change the plan when things are not working out how you expected. For me, a majority of the level 10 things are things I can’t even effect right now – home, etc. So focus on what you can.
Keep planning, and adjusting as things come at you,