Goals Review - September 2007
Quick review of my progress on last month’s goals:
1. enter spending/earnings into budget weekly (not monthly) - Failed
2. develop savings plan for workshop by 09/30/07 - Failed
3. list at least 2 items on ebay (no listing fees this month, I think) - Failed
4. spend no more than $150 eating out - Success, we spent just under $150.00
5. setup monthly family budget meetings to just discuss where we are at - I discussed this idea with the family, but we’ve not started it yet.
6. update and reassess our quarterly progress towards our 2007 goals. - Complete
It looks like I managed a near 50% completion rate, if I consider that talking about family budget meetings as a success. I’m still falling behind on entering budget numbers and it’s hurting us this month since we’re looking at a $2,000 shortage (thanks to being over budget $1,000 last and short $1,000 this month). I gotta go work some number magic and figure out how we’re going to make it work.
Looks like house repairs will get put on hold for a while (thank goodness) and we’ll only manage repairs on one vehicle if needed. We got hit pretty hard last month with repairs on two vehicles at once. Part of me thinks that it what the emergency fund is for, but I still don’t like using it.
chris
October 23rd, 2007 04:12
How about instead of putting goals and then FAILED,put targets reached and SUCCESS after all it is much more motivating and morale boosting to see your achievemnents. You haven’t failed really on the targets not reached,they are still targets but ongoing.
Donna Jean
October 24th, 2007 11:33
I agree, that is a much better way to phrase it. I’ll keep that in mind when I’m being all cranky and hard on my self. :)