2011 Goals Check-Up: October

It's getting cold out there...

It's November! The month that Canadians seem to forget as after Halloween people fast forward to Christmas. I'm slightly jealous that Americans have Thanksgiving to keep all the holiday "cheer" at bay. Of course, I would never forget about November because it's my birth month! Here is my monthly check-up of goals I should be working on:

7.5 hours of sleep per night - I continue to fail at this and I have no excuse other than a sheer lack of self discipline. I've gotten into the bad habit of telling myself that the goal is to "get to bed before midnight" and "get to bed earlier than you did the previous night" and that is helping a little, but I'm still tired most days. :S

Drink at least 1 L (one water bottle) of water per day - On most days I usually have a cup or so leftover in my water bottle, and I've been bad about drinking from my water bottle on my weekends. However, there are some other days where I drink more than 1 L... work in progress!

Read at least 12 books this year - This technically happened in November, but I finished The Power of Social Networking (My fifth book this year!) Next up: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.

Win a kickboxing/Muay Thai fight - There were no fights this month and for some reason I feel myself becoming increasingly lazy! Don't think I will achieve this goal by the end of the year, but we'll see.

Cook at least one recipe from every cookbook I own - According to my photos, apparently the only things I cooked this month were Thanksgiving dinner (based on Thanksgiving dinners of years past), Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Maple Spiced Pecans and chicken soup for the November newsletter at work. I still have twocookbooksto cook from, plusfourmorethatI've cooked from before, but not this year.

Put my savings/RRSP somewhere where I can make more money - Again, this happened in November, but I finally met up with my bank and invested in some mutual funds! Also, the meeting has convinced me to move all of my banking back to one bank (thanks to having an account since I was a young child and having been upgraded by my parents), which will happen later on in November.

Set aside one weekend every month with no commitments - Thanksgiving long weekend was kind of like this as I did get some blogging done, and it was pretty amusing having the family (my siblings, my brother's girlfriend, B.) around watching Chopped! together :)

Rewards
To reward myself for finishing a book, I'm buying another book, and to reward myself for my [could-be] hard[er] work that I've been doing with training B. and I are going to NYC for my birthday! Hoping this will help meet some of my other goals, like setting aside time every month without commitments, time to read and getting more sleep.