April Recap and May Goals

I cannot believe that the month of April is already over, where did the time go? I set out 7 goals for the month of April (April Goals), I think I did really well this month. 

1- Run the capital 10K, make an awesome run mix: 

          I ran the race, and it was great. My run mix somehow didn't make it on my phone, not sure how that happened but I still had some music so that was good. 

2- Take all of the donate stuff to goodwill.
          I did this, I have another small pile started but it was nice to get so much of it out of the house.

3- Spend more quality time with Lily:
         I didn't do so well on this one, we didn't make it to the dog park as often as I wanted but I did make a point of finding time to be with her. 

4- Fitness: 

        I got the miles in and was really close to the number of strength training days that I wanted. 

5- Read 5 fiction books and 1 non-fiction: 
      Definitely hit the number of fiction books and I am close to finishing the non-fiction books

6- Submit 1 manuscript and be close to finishing the second: 
      Sent the first out and haven't heard anything back yet (which is good). I haven't looked at the other one recently.

7- Apartment things:
      I hired a locator and I am working on my Excel sheet for the Jacksonville visit. 

May Goals
This month is going to be pretty busy but I found that laying out clear manageable goals allowed me to know when I had finished the tasks.

1-Manuscripts: Finish the paper that I am currently writing, the review, and hopefully submit it. Hopefully we will get reviews back from the one submitted and be able to resubmit or get it out for publication. It is a long process but I want to stay on top of it.

2- Fitness: I want to try and run the 30 miles again this month, without a 10K that might be difficult. I also want to keep up with my strength training, I am shooting for 20 days this month.

3- Find an apartment: My mom and I are going to Jacksonville in about 2 weeks and the goal is to find an apartment and put down the deposit.

4- Hire movers and a moving truck: once most of the place details are locked down I want to start working on the remaining details. I am pretty sure that I have finalized the use of a moving truck as opposed to movers or PODS (this could change).

5- Quality time with Lily: Sometimes I feel like I get so busy I just assume that she will be around when I finally get home. I want to make a point of choosing her first, I decided that I wanted to have a dog when I got her and I need to make sure that I am being accountable to that. I am also going to try and work on not getting frustrated when she just wants to smell all of the things when I want to be done with the walk. I am shooting for 4 visits to Mutt's this month. 

6- Read more: I loved making a point to spend time on my reading, whether it was before bed or early on a Saturday morning. I was reminded that I very much enjoy that. The goal is 5 fiction and 1 non-fiction. This seems like a good balance of fiction and truth. 

7- The schedule: I would like to figure out the dates that I am traveling in the next two months before the move. I am planning trips to St. Louis, San Antonio, Jacksonville, maybe a girls weekend, packing, a possible trip down to see my folks again (not sure on that one yet), going away parties here, and who knows what else. I just realized that I have so many things that I am trying to do that I have got to get a plan. 

8- Start reading my new textbook: I also would like to start spending some time on planning out my whole new classes thing. 


I am going to stop here on this list, it is starting to make me just a bit on the crazy side. If I actually think about all of the things that need to get done I am going to panic and not actually do anything for the rest of the day. I cannot do that. I am rocking the to-do lists these days, if they are detailed enough they can keep me on track otherwise I get a little lost in the day. What are your goals for the month?