Goal Progress Updates!

Hey Y'all!

Update time. I try to update monthly.

 My (Personal-ish) 2025 Goals:

1) All the goals from the previous blog, and the Outland Adventures blog. 8+15= 23 total there!

2) Continue using the Lose It app to log calories, fitness/exercise for the day, and water intake.

3) Read at least one book a week, any subject. Did y'all know there are FREE books on Google Play?!

4) Spend at least 10min a day writing in my planner/journal.

5) Do something nice, every day. This can be as simple as saying "hello" when out and about.

6) Visit at least 5 new libraries.

7) Spend less time scrolling social media, and more time creating content. 

8) Play Sims 4 at least once a month, see how far I can get in one family over the year.

How am I doing with these???

1) Pretty Good, not stellar, but not bad.

2) Have to catch up the last coupe days, but I'm back at it.

3) Not 100% but pretty close.

4) Not the past couple of days, but I plan to catch up after this.

5) Easy!

6) We have 4 down! Laurel Co. KY, Rittman (Wayne Co) Ohio, Decatur (Adams Co) IN, and Roselawn (Newton Co) IN. We're going to try another tomorrow if time allows!

7) Total fail, haven't crafted at all.

8) It's averaging about once a month, sometimes a bit more.

So, overall I think these are going well. YAY!

I've got this!!!

Other Goals:

As a reminder, here were my goals:

2025 Goals:

1) Organize the Cricut Joy Bag, and Storage Box in a way that makes crafting easy to accomplish. ~DONE!

2) Make note of supplies/colors I already have. Keep running tab on my phone. ~DONE!

3) Set aside time each week to do some crafting, or craft related activities... Mondays?

4) Make the decals for Brunilda, the van, by April. 

I have two planned, one for the front visor simply stating "Brunilda" in blue no font chosen yet, the other a quote from Ferris Buehler for the rear two windows... color unknown right now, but design/font is chosen for that one.

5) Finish one craft project a month.

6) In addition to #5 make at least one card per month, give it away.

7) Film more How To's and other Craft related content for CWC. Post 2x monthly on YouTube.

8) Post more often on CWC social medias. Just the blog posts aren't enough. Aim for at least one additional post per week... Saturdays?

1& 2) are done!

3) No progress, no crafting.

4) No additional progress, though color is chosen for the quote now.

5) HAHAHAHA.

6) Nope, only the one in January.

7) Once or twice, nothing beyond that.

8) Nope, I'm spending time growing Outland Adventures, so CWC social media isn't as important to me right now.

I still feel like these are good goals for the year, and I'm going to try to make it happen moving forward...

Are you interested in the Outland Adventures Goals??

Let me know moving forward.

This year we'd like to grow each and every one of our social media platforms, do more, and see more of this vast country!

2025:

1) Post daily on at least one of our social media platforms. 

Tuesday's and Thursday's will remain blogs and videos. 

Saturday's will be something quick and fun, like a picture of what we're doing. Monday is fan engagement posts, and Wednesday are currently anything goes. Sunday's are a question to our followers.

These posts can be on any, or all of our social media so be sure to check us out everywhere.

This is going really well, 100%!

2) Get more active on Instagram, add Amanda as a user to that account as well. -DONE!

After 3 month of posting semi regularly and seeing no growth we've dropped Instagram from our focus.

3) Work on Work Camp Resume, finish by mid- February. Apply for jobs ASAP. (This is dependent on Amanda's treatment schedule.)

100% and job secured for the season!

4) Purchase and use VidIQ, especially to aid in thumbnail and descriptions on videos. -By end of January.

Done!

5) Revamp and update Amazon Wishlist.

Done!

6) Visit 3 new states this year!

We've got one! IL. We're just barely exploring around Kankakee, but it's been a blast!

7) Visit 4 new State Parks in 2025.

2 down! (We're counting Levi Jackson (KY), and we've done Findley (OH).

8) Complete 52 hikes this year (at least 1mi). We're already ahead with 3!

Some weeks we get none, others 2 or 3 so were ahead, & we're still well on track!

9) Try something new everyday.

Easy!

10) Get the drone up at least once a month, even if it's just to practice flying it around.

Fail. We've used it none.

11) Use the "good camera" at least 2x a month, get those shots!

We've gotten it out twice now!

12) Complete a course on Digital/Social Media. (These will be free courses, and we'll update you on our favorites!)

We're both enrolled in classes. I just finished one through EdX. It's intro to Social Media for Business, but it has some relevant information and tips so far. I just started one on storytelling! Chris is going through a marketing course, and programming courses on Stack Skills.

13) Become more involved in the Van Life community both online and IRL. 

The online side will be easy to do since we are posting more often! 

Work in progress, but we are growing and engaging more online. We also have talked with more people out and about.

14) Connect with other creators, and van life brands. Make lasting connections and build relationships!

Work in progress!!

15) Friday's post just came to me! Post what we're grateful for from the week. May be one thing, may be a short list of things.

We are slowly getting back to the grateful post. I've remembered the past 3 weeks!

Have a great day,

Craftin' Wife