My August goals were:
Writing/Professional Goals
- Finish writing a conference paper. Done! I gave the paper and got some excellent feedback at the conference that I attended earlier in the month. I'm hoping that it will form part of the basis for an article along with the other conference paper I'll be giving later in the fall.
- Write up a report for my institution taking account of my summer activities and my plan for the upcoming year. Mostly done. I finished the report, and I'm about 80% done with the plan.
- Update my CV and other job market materials. Mostly done. I've updated my CV and most of my materials, but I still need to do some tweaking to my teaching philosophy and writing sample.
- Get started on note-taking and outlining another conference paper. Done! I am really happy with myself for having continued to carve out some research and writing time even during the start of the semester chaos.
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- PR at the Urban Wildland Half-Marathon. Well, I didn't PR, but I learned from this race and feel confident that I have it in me to PR at a half-marathon in the spring. If you want to see a funny slide show of me catching up to Clarinda during the race, pop over to her blog and read this post.
- Run 127 Miles in August. Not quite. I ran 117 miles in August. I missed a few miles here and there over the course of the month, and that's ok because I had a lot going on.
- Do yoga at least twice a week. Mostly done. There were a couple of weeks where I didn't get in a second practice, but I've been pretty good about getting in some mat time this month.
- Maintain my food journal. Poorly done. The overnight trip for my half-marathon early in the month derailed me and I just never got properly back on track. I'd journal for a few days here and there, but I need to begin September as a reset with this.
How was your August? Did you go back to school? Accomplish goals? Run any races? I'd love to hear all about it!
I can't believe august is almost over (i'm hanging onto this last day for dear life).
ReplyDeleteYou had a good month!
I'm jealous on the conference paper part! I was about a third of the way done with mine when my laptop died and ate my work! Fortunately I think I can recover it (will find out for sure this weekend), and I'm certain I can rebuild the outline and slides I had put together so far... But so much work! I do backups every month, but clearly that's not *quite* often enough. *SIGH.*
ReplyDeleteNice work, too, on the running and yoga!
You totally rocked your professional goals! Once again, I am inspired by your example.
ReplyDeleteI had a few goals this month: improve my running fitness, meet some experimental (work) benchmarks, and write a blog post about my work situation. I definitely hit my marks for running and the blog post. With the experiments, the usual uncertainty of experimental biology put me a bit behind, but in my line of work, it's more important to be able to adjust your goals based on the data than adhere to a rigid schedule. I'm not satisfied with not reaching my goals, so I'm rolling them over into September :-) I'm hoping to get a lot done before I go out of town in a few weeks.
117 miles--awesome! And I'm also glad to see that you've figured out how to carve out time for research during the semester already. I think if you've done it during one of the busiest times that you'll be able to continue to do so.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds that I need to spend the next few weeks getting myself on the schedule I'll be on during the academic term. Every Tuesday morning and Friday all day in the reading room. And a scheduled 2-3 hours the rest of the week.
117 is a strong training month!! I am excited to see how the Chicago marathon goes. And i can't wait to meet you at the end of the month!
ReplyDeleteMy goal for September is to build confidence on client calls at work. I have started to do client calls as soon I will do some travel for client visits and such. I have a ways to go before I feel comfortable/confident!!
117 miles in a month is still great!! And it sounds like you are thoroughly on top of your other goals for the month. Good job!
ReplyDeleteI like the fact you write down your monthly goals. I can't say that I usually breakdown my goals by month but I did decide in August to give CrossFit a try. It seems like it is just another fitness fad but I did go to a CrossFit class earlier this month and liked it so I might just continue. I will probably wait until after my two fall races to do it more regularly though.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on reaching all (or most of) your August goals! Sounds like a busy month!! :0)
ReplyDeleteNice month! I'm always in school, but we finally got promising data in August!
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