February Monthly Challenge? It's a SUCCESS!

Before I continue about our adventure in Palwan, let me just update you guys about the result of my first ever monthly challenge. Since March has officially started, it's time to review if I've succeeded with my February Challenge.

I'm glad and proud to tell you guys that I achieved all my February goals!

Woohoo! *throws confetti in the air*

GOAL 1

For the first goal, publish at least 2 blog posts per week, for a span of 4 weeks, I am proud to say that I was able to publish a total of 10 posts.

GOAL 2

Oh this is probably the goal I am happiest to achieve! I did lose 1 inch from my waistline. I was size 32 and now, I'm down to 31 inches and I feel so good about it! My target waistline that I wanna maintain is anywhere between 27 and 28 inches unless of course, I get pregnant.

GOAL 3

When I published my February goals, I was doing the bare minimum of working out of at least twice a week for a couple of weeks. But this last week of February, I've decided to up the challenge and I am now working out intensively for a good 30minutes everyday for 5 straight days til now and I couldn't be any happier with how I'm feeling as of the moment. Yes, my arms and thighs and tummy are sore but I know it's because I'm on the right track.

GOAL 4

For this goal, I would have to say that I did the basic de-clutter and re-organize but I still have to re-check if there are still some stuff that I do not need anymore or that has to be moved elsewhere. But still, I know where my files are located so I'm good with that.

GOAL 5

I was able to easily create a lineup of topics for the month of March so I ticked off this goal in just a day or two after I published my February challenge. However, the thing is that I did not follow the lineup strictly. So I guess I'm gonna have to do something about this during my March monthly challenge but what matters is I accomplished my goal and that is to create a list of topics that I will blog about the following month.

So there...

What about you, do you want to improve yourself? Why not start it by creating a list of little challenges that you know you can achieve within a month and see if you can manage to attain your goals!

If I can do it, so can YOU!

Cheers to a better ME and hopefully to a better YOU too!

My February Challenge

I didn't list down my New Year's resolution for this year because truth be told, I will end up not doing most of them, if not all, anyway. It's not that I don't want to, it's just that the motivation and the discipline are not there.

Having said that, it doesn't mean that I do not want to improve certain aspects of my life. I do. After all, I know that I'm soooo far from the perfect me that I REALLY want to achieve. And because of that, I've decided to create mini monthly goals for myself that I SHOULD fulfill at all cost. I thought, in this way, I can list down doable and not that hard to accomplish tasks that are realistic and of course, for self improvement.

Now, in order to keep myself motivated, I have decided to include a reward and punishment system in the picture. Once I successfully crossed out all the items on my list, I will have a reward for myself. If not, I will of course, get punished. The monthly reward will most likely be little things that give me pleasure like I get a cheat day this week or I'll buy that book I've been wanting to have. As for the punishment, it's going to be taking away or delaying those simple pleasures I'm really dying to get my hands on like for the coming month, I am not allowed to have a cheat day so I won't be able to eat my favorite junk food or something like that. And come the end of this year, I'll check my progress and if I stayed on track at least 70% of the time, then that is the time I'll reward myself with something really big and special like a new gadget or a getaway trip or a shopping spree. And if I fail, I don't get the BIG reward.

Since January is over and we're almost halfway of February already, what I've decided to do is to distribute that January point to March and April. If I successfully complete my March goals, I will earn one point plus another half point from the month of January giving me a total of 1.5 points. The same thing goes for the month of April (1.5 points) giving me a total of 4 points IF and ONLY IF I successfully achieve my February (1 point), March (1.5 points) and April (1.5 points) goals.

So for this month, below are the goals that I've decided to accomplish. For the weekly tasks, I will have to start fulfilling them this week. About the reward, I've decided to start with something that may really sound simple to a lot of you (even to me actually) but is really hard for me since it's something that I look forward to having every weekend. So if succeed the February challenges, I can eat my favorite brownie sundae every weekend of March and buy one item from Flipkart! And if I fail, of course, no brownie sundae for the entire month of March and I am not allowed to buy any item unless it is a necessity.

Oh dear! Wish me luck!

I can do this! You can make your own monthly challenge too and I know you can do it as well!