January has come and gone. Am I the only one that feels like it was just Christmas Day? At the beginning of January, Angela and I sat down and mapped out some goals for 2019. Angela has launched her home decor business, eight38 Designs and one of the big January goals was launching her website. I would play a big role in this goal. One day we lined up childcare and planned to spend the day at a coffee shop knocking out that goal.
We spent five and a half hours at the coffee shop and I got absolutely nowhere. I ran into road block after road block after road block and we left the coffee shop with me not being able to set up a single product or design any of her homepage. To say I was frustrated and furious at that moment would be an understatement. I didn’t expect to have the website completely set up, but I had planned on being a lot closer that the 0-5% I was at.
The other reason I was really frustrated is because I had a pretty big goal of my own for January (that I’ll tell you more about later), which I knew now probably wouldn’t happen. Here we are in February and I can confirm it didn’t. Angela and I were able to launch her website (it technically launched in February but we’re counting it) and that was very satisfying to check off. You can check it out at eight38designs.com. There is still some work to be done, but the heavy lifting is out of the way and some of the bugs have been worked out.
The other day on my way to work, I was starting to get bummed about already missing my goal. That’s not a great way to start the new year. I could tell where I was heading. I was going to get bummed to the point where it would derail me. I was already behind, so why try hard to catch up. In that moment I had to stop myself and take hold of my thoughts. Yes I had missed my goal, but no it wasn’t the end of the world.
The other project had taken significantly longer than expected so of course some other things were going to get pushed back. It makes sense to focus on the goal that will immediately help open up an additional revenue stream for our family and there are some big things coming up in February and March that Angela had to have her website for. Mine wasn’t nearly as time sensitive.
The thing I had to remind myself is that I’ll never be perfect in hitting my goals. Whether they are big goals or small ones, I’ll never be perfect. If I plan to wake up at 6:00am every weekday to allow myself to spend time with God to start my day, and one day I don’t, I will be able to get back to it the next day. I don’t have to count that day as a waste or give up on my goal because I missed it that once. At the same time, I have to be careful to not constantly use that as an excuse. There is a difference between missing a goal every once in a while and never doing it.
So at the end of February, I’ll officially be launching my podcast. You may have seen me teasing it on social media and I’ve been working hard at it. I’ve learned I say “um” and “so” a lot more than I’d like to admit. The domain I wanted for it was unavailable for a long time, but I was finally able to secure it last week. I’ll be sharing more info as the month goes on and I am really excited about it. It is something I’ve felt God calling me to do for a long time and I’ve avoided it. I know it won’t be perfect, but I’m stepping out in faith and trusting Him to make up for my lack.
until next time…