March Wrap-Up

Long-term Goal: 31 / 31 Days! (A 7% increase over last month).

Short-term Goals: 74 total, averaging 2.39 per day (A .46 increase over last month's average).

Daily Goals: 348 / 480, which is 72% (An 8% decrease over last month. Can't win them all.)

My goal for March was to work 100% of the days. There were a few days when I just wanted to call it in, but my dang obsessiveness wouldn't let me break my streak, knowing this was my goal for the month. This month taught me that this isn't the healthiest of goals. It's much better to find a balance.

Speaking of balance, because no one can juggle perfection, I slipped on my daily tasks this month. I did have a handful of perfect days, but I was likely suffering from burnout due to not taking any days off and accomplished less each day overall.

I had also set a goal to work on the quilt mending project daily and write at least 500 words daily for my book. I did a stellar job finishing the quilt project. I took a few days to focus on it and completed it early in the month. However, I found it too emotionally taxing to work on the story of my grief journey every day. Looking back at my tracker, I only worked on it five days this month.

Most of my time this month was spent working on the website's back end: SEO, site optimization, linking future shop options, creating blog posts, and beginning my journey as a business on Pinterest.

Mid-month, I found myself feeling a bit adrift and aimless. I still had my goals that I was working on, so I wasn't aimless. I just felt that way. Again, this was likely due to some amount of burnout. I took some time to list my half-finished work and what work was currently tempting me off my track. Then, I consciously chose not to begin anything new until I had finished four of the seven items on my unfinished list.

I just finished plotting my plans for next month: prepping products for an online shop. Let the anxious hand-wringing commence.