quarterly goals | episode ii

Well, my anxiety around long-term goals and general distrust for life aged well, didn't it?! But the heart-breaking, uncertain reality of the Covid-19 epidemic is one I'm not bearing alone. I've had many conversations over the past few weeks over this 'lost' time, how I feel I'm missing out on life again. And although we all are, to an extent, I've also worked hard to reconfigure my mind so that isn't my reality or opinion. This time isn't lost, it still belongs to me, and I can do what I want with it (within the boundaries set by the government and my own morality, of course). Naturally this set of goals will reflect that, and I'm not setting my sights on anything that isn't within my reach already.

I'm also finding my mental health is improving in many ways, despite the unshakeable anxiety the Corona virus is extracting in most of us. Being home more, taking long walks in the sunshine, slowing my schedule waaaay down... these things have brought me a much broader sense of peace than I expected to feel 3 weeks into our nationwide lockdown. 

Before we get stuck into our second set of goals for 2020, let's check in at what I hoped to achieve January - March. 



Quarterly Goals, episode one. 
Deadline: April 1st 2020.

• Pay off half of my Nintendo Switch. Delayed in favour of buying a new phone! I've since worked out a full plan of how much I'll be paying and when and have paid two instalments already. 
• Sign up for pole classes. Also delayed, as both my schedule and then the restrictions set because of the virus got in the way. I'm intending to sign up for a course as soon as the studio is back up and running. 
• Finish profiling the signs in my grimoire. I have 3 to go! I tend to work on the sign profiles when I feel called to, and I just haven't recently. I've also been putting it off because there are some signs that I just don't connect to at all, and profiling them is hard. 
• Complete 30 yoga sessions. Absolutely nowhere near. I completed 4.
• Read 4 books. 
• Book something exciting.  If all goes well, I'll be off to Brighton in July!
• Go back to therapy. I achieved this very last minute and I'm incredibly grateful it worked out. I now have telephone therapy once a week which will hopefully evolve into face-to-face therapy once life resumes its normal course.
• Finish 3 art projects.

Several wins and several almosts! As for this time...

Quarterly Goals, episode two.
Deadline: July 1st 2020.

• Have £2,000 in savings.
• Construct 2 bridges, another incline and extend my house on Soy Island. 
• Sort out the wall behind my bed. 
• Complete my Crystal Healing diploma. 
• Finish 3 art projects.
• Read 4 books.

I've whittled my priorities down to just these six, as opposed to the eight I reached for last time. They're all long-term goals, ones that I'll work on bit by bit over the next 3 months, and none rely on the external world being available to me. Wish me luck!