A Brief Review
By paigea
@paigea (36317)
Canada
January 30, 2016 9:01pm CST
The month is ending so I am reviewing how I am doing with my resolutions.
Lose weight - maintaining my weight so, good enough.
Exercise/ get fit - I joined 6 scheduled walks with my walking group. It's a start. I'll aim for at least 2 per week in February and do better at keeping track of other exercise I do. I have my little calendar ready to record this.
Earn more from mystery shopping - On course for this, bumped it up a bit.
Get organized:
I have entered all my mystery shopping work this month in my ledger. This is an improvement as I tend to let it pile up.
I have tidied a couple of drawers and cupboards. A few things have been decluttered and a few things arranged better.
It's a start. Now I am off to organize something.
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34 responses
@kevin1877uk (36988)
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31 Jan 16
Sounds like you are doing well, keep it going, well done.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
31 Jan 16
I am impressed, you did a lot of what you wanted to do and even if you didn't do quite as much it is impressive.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
31 Jan 16
WAY TO GO! I also do a monthly check in :)
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
31 Jan 16
I am trying to lose weight but right now I'm maintaining it.
Sounds like everything is going good for January! Hello February soon.
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
31 Jan 16
@paigea I hope to go down a few pounds for February. I have maintained for a month or so now hehe. I wish you the best of luck for February and looking forward to Februarys update
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@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
31 Jan 16
You are so doing better than I @paigea . I am just not finding my feet this year. I did not set resolutions for myself this year, but really have to try to get schedules set for certain things. All the best with your resolutions.
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
31 Jan 16
Nice one. You sound as if you are well organised and in control! Good luck!
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
31 Jan 16
Sounds like you are doing really well. Did I tell you about the "Toss Twenty Tuesday" ? Every week on Tuesday, I toss 20 things out. As I go through the week, cleaning and organizing, I collect things that I don't need anymore. I have three boxes. One is for absolute trash or recycling, like magazines and newspapers and old catalogs, one is for clothes that I will give to someone else or to the Goodwill and one is for items that I give to a friend who has a booth at a Flea Market, so he can sell them. I heard about this "Toss" idea on Bubblews and I really liked the idea so I've been doing it for quite a while now.
I've been trying to clean out my "home" office since I retired last year and there is a lot to get rid of. Once I do, my son is going to repurpose this room for me to have a sitting room with a TV and be able to set up my sewing machine, etc. I have a long way to go, but I'm still making progress, every day. I concentrate on one area at a time. This room has been full of paperwork and business related items that I just don't need anymore. I have collected a lot of things that just need to go.
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@paigea (36317)
• Canada
31 Jan 16
I used to do that Toss Twenty Tuesday on Bubblews too. I have been decluttering for years now. It is funny that I can go through something like the linen closet and keep certain things, and then the next time I come back to it I find I haven't used those things so out they go. I have developed the habit of thinking about everything I handle in a day - "Do I really need this? Do I have more than one?
should it be kept somewhere else,?" So I try to get rid of needless things daily. And when shopping I think of what I am going to get rid of as soon as I get home if I buy something.
My house is a lot less cluttered than it used to be, but things have become disorganized. And the office was the staging ground for unpacking boxes when we moved in and I have never got back in there and organized it! I made a little step yesterday to organizing paperwork.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
31 Jan 16
Good job on the first month of the year. I don't keep track, but that's ok because I 'm on vacation.
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@kaka135 (14931)
• Malaysia
31 Jan 16
That sounds good! Perhaps you will get everything organized by next month.
I think it's good to do a monthly review, I might go ahead and do mine. I think I am doing quite well in January, have learned some cooking and baking skills, and the homeschooling went well as well. It's just that I didn't spend much time at my programming work. I'll have to work hard on that in February.
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@GreatMartin (23672)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
31 Jan 16
Sorry but maintaining is not losing!
"I'll aim" sounds like an excuse instead of "I will"
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@paigea (36317)
• Canada
31 Jan 16
are you trying to give me a kick in the pants. (as my mother used to say.) I lost weight previously so every pound I never gain back is a success. I have all year to lose some more. I will exercise at least 2 times per week in February and I will make note of it so I am sure I have done it. I will aim to join the walking group twice a week - can't change that as some of the walks happen when I am at work. The walks schedule fluctuates and my work schedule varies. But no excuse for not exercising that doesn't depend on anyone but me.
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
31 Jan 16
You're doing great! I'm pushing my resolution to Feb lol
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
1 Feb 16
@paigea I have made some progress but not as quickly as I could
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@paigea (36317)
• Canada
1 Feb 16
@Drosophila Well, that is pretty much me too, but I count every little step forward as progress.
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