New Year Goals: Check in Point!

Back in January I posted my goals for this year in lieu of your typical New Year Resolutions. A few were a little more ambitious than others- but they were all they types of goals that will take the entire year to complete. So with the first quarter of 2016 behind us, I thought I would do a check-in to evaluate how successful I have been so far!

First off we had-

Get Organized

While I haven’t bought an external hard drive and started cleaning up my duplicate files yet, I have started making a list of photos to find.

Similarly, the second goal was to print more photos and finish my scrapbooks. I can say I’ve been hitting the goal of 2 pages a week pretty consistently. It helps me to have such a small goal. I find 6 photos, pick a few pieces of colored paper and some embellishments and lay it out. Even if I rearrange it 10 times throughout the course of my day off- I’ve still been managing to secure everything to the page before it’s time for bed.

At 2 pages a week, I have added at least 24 pages of memories to my books!

I’ve used mostly printed photos I already had but decided to start focusing more on the “printing” goal. This became overwhelming at first, so I looked at what I had done for some direction. For some reason I had scrapbooked more Halloweens than any other holidays and printed more wedding photos than any other event. So I made a checklist to find and print the following categories of photos for the past 10 years+:

Winter vacation, Summer party, Wedding, Halloween, Fall vacation

I knew I could never work on all the photos I’ve taken chronologically, so by isolating these life events (and just picking a few of them), I can work towards checking off each category by year- Summer Party 2006, 2007, 2008, ect. This way if I never finish scrapbooking everything, I will still have a well-rounded representation of our lives, instead of 3 or 4 books with every event from one time period. This should keep me busy- with 5 categories and at least 10 years of photos, there are 50 events to print and put together. A possibility of 1750-3000 photos! (This is where you remind yourself about the easy to achieve weekly goal!)