Café Con Monica

63 Days till Christmas?

Do you ever find yourself wondering where has the time gone?

Yesterday, a friend said to me “Christmas is in 64 days and I have so much to do.” I just stood there a bit shocked. How did it get to be that close to the end of the year?

Don’t worry I wasn’t mad at her for talking about Christmas before Halloween. I get it.

My concern is: where has the time gone?

I don’t know about you but I feel like I am so busy planning. Planning what we are doing next weekend, next month, my blog posts, my social media posts, travel and all this without children. Let’s not even get started on work.

I use the hell out of my planner!

I am always looking to what is coming and not spending enough time just enjoying the moment.

Sure, I enjoy the moments as they are happening but if I stop and think about how much of my life revolves around what comes next. It’s kind of scary.

I am excited for the holidays and I love planning things but I think this is really going to be a big goal for me in 2020. (as I talk to you about living in the moment I am planning a goal for next year)

I think it’s important to simply slow down and I want to explore more ways to make that happen in my life.

Do you ever feel this way? What do you do to help slow down?

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October Goals

On this first day of #Blogtober I decided to keep it simple by sharing my October goals!

October Goals

  • Make Coffee at home 5-6 days a week. You dont even want to know how much I spent at coffee shops last month. It hearts my heart.
  • Complete #Blogtober – I need to kick start my writing again and I am hoping this will inspire me! Its going to be hard!
  • Planning – I need to take advantage of my planner, be more thorough and try and stick to my plans
  • Get outside – Its finally under 3 digit temps so I want to be outside as much as I can even if its just to take a walk
  • Get flights for holidays booked already
  • Be Consistent – I have a terrible habit of not following through. I start and stop things all the time and Id really like to work on consistency.

I have so many things I want to do in October and when I looked at the calendar I realized I was going to overbook myself if I didn’t make more realistic plans so I said no/pushed back some things and now I am ready to take this month on!

What are your goals for this month?

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May Goals – April Review

Sharing my May goals and reviewing April

April Review

  • No take out – Yes. Well. We did fairly well. Not 0 but only 2x and that is a HUGE improvement.
  • Blog/Insta Planning – I started out well. I had worked on a bunch of posts. But then I got stressed about school and work and let it fall so this was a big fail.
  • Reading – This seems to be the only thing I did so well this month. I finished 15 books.
  • Get Outside– I did this! We either took walks during the week or made sure we did something outside any weekend that weather permitted.
  • Spring Clean – Hahaha…well I tried. I did get rid of a few things. But the only thing I managed to really do was rearrange things.
  • Less Spend – I did ok. I ended up having an large unexpected expense that was my own fault and pretty much wiped out the good work I had been doing with saving so I am starting all over again.

April was an interesting month for me. My reading finally picked back up but pretty much everything else fall by the wayside. With that ridiculous unexpected expense I got super stressed which always leads to crappy eating and pretty much shutting down on my end. Also, I traveled back to Chicago mid month and for some reason travel always sets me back on getting things done.

May Goals

  • No Overplanning – May is a busy month. The end of the school year always is. I have to remember to say no to things I can control and not stress myself with too many plans.
  • Blog/Insta Planning – I’ve got this. This weekend I am planning stuff out! But really I’d like to not be scrambling to post or skipping a full week because I forget.
  • School School School– I am in the home stretch for school and I have a super super case of senioritis. I have to prioritize studying and homework time.
  • Workout – Weather is good, gym is free. I need to see it more than 1x a month.
  • Save – Period. I have to replenish those savings
How tired do you think he is of seeing this every single May?

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