Dear Adventure Avenue,
Last year, my monthly goals were an adventure of curiosity and personal growth. This year, I’m feeling 2022 (Taylor Swift fans out there will get the reference) and plan on working on things that I enjoy doing or that I want to accomplish this year. Let’s get to it!
Goals for the New Year
1. GROW A GARDEN
I realized once gardening season started last year that I should have made gardening one of my goals for last year. I love to garden, but with this as a goal, I plan on keeping better track of my gardening adventures. This year in the garden, I plan to:
Plant zucchini in the new plot I started. I’m trying a no dig method to deal with bad soil and weeds.
So far, I am not having much luck with this plot. I don’t think the seedlings can survive long enough to put decent roots in the clay like soil. I am pivoting a little bit by putting some of my Snow White tomato starts in this patch and attempting to start zucchini in pots with the goal to transplant them into the ground.
Plant the tomato seeds I saved from my favorite tomatoe plants of 2021. Done!
While the Amy’s Apricot’s didn’t grow, the Snow White tomatoes are doing very well! Two of the four already have fruit on them with the other two growing quite well. I haven’t been able to transplant my zucchini yet.
They are on their fourth or fifth round! I harvest the green shoots by cutting them off with scissors and freezing the chopped up green onion. Plus, now I have oodles of tomato plants from my local Arboretum!
Here is a walkthrough of my garden I did in May:
Plant herbs and/or strawberries in my new Vertical planter – affiliate link here.
I probably should start more basil in my vertical planter – or maybe spinach or green onions?
2. DO YOGA 60 TIMES THIS YEAR – THAT’S JUST 5 TIMES A MONTH!
I love yoga, and it’s so good for my physical and mental health.
In January, I practiced yoga 22 times! (How fitting!)
In February, I practiced yoga 8 times!
In March, I practiced yoga 3 times
In April, I practiced yoga 6 times! (I started going to yoga classes at my town’s Community Center)
In May, I practiced yoga 4 times.
In total, I practiced yoga 43 times! Over halfway done!
3. READ OR LISTEN TO 22 BOOKS
I like to track the books I read throughout the year. Since I love to read, this is a great 2022 inspired goal.
So far this year I have read:
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendency: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good by Timothy Zahn
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil by Timothy Zahn
I’m still working on Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser, but this month I almost finished a new Star Wars that takes place in the prequel era: Brotherhood by Michael Chen. I like to have multiple books to read at once, but it looks like I need to step up my reading game if I want to finish this goal by the end of the year!
After reading Declutter Like a Mother by Allie Casazza last year, I decided to give decluttering a go. I started this goal on December 3 and had already decluttered 179 things.
In January, I decluttered 322 items.
In February, I decluttered 27 items.
In March, I decluttered 18 items.
In April, I decluttered 18 items.
In May, I decluttered 35 items
In total, I decluttered 599 items!
I’m just using a piece of graph paper to track mine, but Let’s Live and Learn is where I got the idea to declutter 1000 items. She has a printable that may be helpful – link here.
5. MAKE 100 POSHMARK SALES DONE!
This goal goes along the same lines as goal #4 as some of the things I’m decluttering are nice clothes that just no longer fit or serve me, but still have lots of wear left in them. Check out my review of Poshmark here. If you’re interested in Poshmark, use my code asposhadventure to sign up and get a $10 credit.
In January, I sold 36 listings!
In February, I sold 17 listings!
In March, I sold 16 listings! (This doesn’t include a Depop sale or an eBay sale)
In April, I sold 17 listings!
In May, I sold 14 listings! (This doesn’t include an eBay sale)
Total Listings Sold: 100 listings! YAY! I can cross this goal off my list!
Let’s achieve our goals and I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 2022!
Sincerely,
A
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