FinishYear Week 12

Week 12 of FinishYear is over! I can't believe we're 3 months in! So, it's that time again!

Here’s my list of goals, and the progress (or lack thereof!) that I made:

-Finish Master's Degree: I finished my thesis defense on Friday and it was accepted!!! This means that I passed and I got my Master's degree!! Just a few hours of work on revisions and getting the final paper printed, then I'll be done with this one!

-Finish Health Psych Cert: This week was the eleventh week of class. Four more weeks to go. We talked more about our papers for the class and I plan to use next week to do some preliminary writing.
-Finish a letter to Karabo: Completed this monthly goal last week.
-Finish a storage/classification system for clients' photographs: I put $5 in my "External Hard Drive" envelope this week. I now have a little under $70 saved. I also had a photo shoot this evening and may use part of the money from that to complete my savings for this goal so that the hard drive can be ordered next week or so. I have many photo shoots coming up, so I really need to free up some space on my computer!

I'm also going to be adding a new goal. I picked up a chronological Bible this week because I had always been fascinated with them, and I found one on sale at Lifeway. I didn't realize that it is also a yearly Bible, broken down into readings by day so that you can read the entire Bible in a year. I've tried to do this before on several occasions with mixed success. However, this particular Bible has a little box at the bottom of each entry so you can check off that you completed that day's readings. Is't as if the author KNEW that I am a task completer! Sooooooo, new goal is to finish reading the Bible by the end of 2012. Yes, that means I have some catching up to do, but it's OK, I think I can do it! This goal will go in place of my previous goal of filling up my Scripture cards. I realized that I had not structured that goal well for myself, which was inhibiting my progress. Additionally, the goal of writing them down in that format was not meaningful to me, and if it's not meaningful, then why finish when I can finish something that is? Like reading the whole Bible!

So that's Week 12!

FinishYear Week 11

I can't believe that today marks the end of Week 11 of FinishYear! Sometimes I still think it's February, and I can't believe it's late March already! Anyway, FinishYear is a term I'm using from Jon Acuff, a Christian blogger whom I follow regularly because he is both wise and hilarious! He suggested that we all challenge ourselves to make 2012 a year of finishing things, as opposed to starting new resolutions. Dreams are great and all, but unfinished dreams accomplish nothing. FINISHING changes your life, if not the world!

So, we're eleven weeks in, and here's how I'm doing on the goals I designated for FinishYear.

-Finish Master's Degree: I finished my thesis defense presentation and made up my notes for it this week. I can't believe that this loooooooooong journey will likely be almost over on Friday! I defend my thesis at 10am on Friday, the 23rd, so if you think of it, PRAY!

-Finish Health Psych Cert: This week was the tenth week of class. Five more weeks to go. I read through the prevention plan that I will assess and supplement for this semester's paper. I also began an outline for the paper.

-Finish Scripture Index Cards: Did nothing on this one.

-Finish a letter to Karabo: I sent out Karabo's Easter card this week! It has a search and find game in it. He's only 2, but I hope he will enjoy it!

-Finish a storage/classification system for clients' photographs: I put $10 in my "External Hard Drive" envelope this week. I now have a little over $60 saved, and at this rate, I may have a 500MB or 1TB hard drive by the end of May. Then I will begin the process of transferring photos.

Because I defend my Master's thesis this Friday, it took up the majority of my time this week. 

How's it going for you?

Finish Year Week 10

First of all, my apologies for not updating last week. With Pop Pop still hospitalized, many things have been pushed to the back burner, and last week, this blog was one of them.


Today marks the end of Week 10 of FinishYear! FinishYear is a term I'm using from Jon Acuff, a Christian blogger whom I follow regularly because he is both wise and hilarious! He suggested that we all challenge ourselves to make 2012 a year of finishing things, as opposed to starting new resolutions because let's face it, dreams are great and all, but unfinished dreams accomplish nothing. FINISHING changes your life, if not the world!

So, we're ten weeks in, and here's how I'm doing on the goals I designated for FinishYear.

-Finish Master's Degree: Over the course of the last two weeks, I've made up my presentation for my defense. I should have started practicing it and making up notes by now, but again, things have taken a backseat with my grandfather in the hospital. We are hopeful he will transition to rehabilitation this week and then I will have more time to work on this, because he will be in State College, as opposed to here in Hershey.

-Finish Health Psych Cert: This week was the ninth week of class, but we did not meet because it was Spring Break. YAY! Six more weeks to go. However, I completed the third element of our second discussion forum online last night and selected a prevention program to review for my Program Plan paper. I plan to print out the 65 page review today or tomorrow and begin digging through the material this week.

-Finish Scripture Index Cards: Again, really slacking on this one. I've been spending a lot of time reading my Bible, just not writing down verses because I'm getting stuck on the idea that I have to wait for a verse to really jump out at me before I write it in my little book for keeping. Wondering if I'm approaching this one the wrong way. Not sure, but I may need to re-evaluate this goal.

-Finish a letter to Karabo: This is a monthly goal, and I sent Karabo's birthday card. I hope he gets it in time, his birthday is in early April. I also got at Easter card in the mail from World Vision and plan to send that out to him this week, as Easter is also in early April this year.

-Finish a storage/classification system for clients' photographs: This week, I put another $12 in my envelope of savings for an external hard drive. I'm about halfway there!

In the end, it was an alright week for me. Honestly, these goals haven't been my priority this week. Spending time with Pop Pop and Gram in the hospital on a daily basis while they're this close has been my top priority, so some of these took a backseat, and to tell the truth, I'm OK with that. It's Finish YEAR, not Finish Month or Finish Season, so I'm not worried.

How's it going for you?