It’s time to check how I’m going with my list. I have a lot of process goals which are usually things that I want to include more of in my life, rather than a single discreet thing to do. This time round I’m tracking my completion with a spreadsheet. Stephany asked me about it, so I thought now is a good time to give the quick run down. The screenshot above is the summary sheet which draws everything together and calculates my progress. The tabs are where I fill in what I’ve done. I’ve mostly used a COUNTA formula which counts all the rows that are filled in. This is then taken through to the summary worksheet to calculate my percentage completed. I fill the tabs in every 1-2 weeks. Is this completely over the top? Yes! Do I love it anyway? Of course!

Now for how I’m tracking so far:

Completed:

• Book list pages for my blog: I’m working through some prize winning books as well as the Read Around the World Challenge so I wanted dedicated pages for these. You can access these from my Every Single X page.
• Go to Germany – I’m in Germany now!

In Progress:

• Read 5 books by Indigenous Australian authors – I read Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now edited by Ellen van Neerven and Carpentaria by Alexis Wright (40%)
• Read 5 Book Award Winners from each of the lists I’m working through: I read Carpentaria and Bodies of Light (Miles Franklin), All the Birds in the Sky (Nebula), Orbital (Booker), Hamnet (Women’s Prize for Fiction), The Tainted Cup (Hugo). (17.14%)
• Read 20 books from the Around the world Challenge – Death at the Sanatorium by Ragner Jonasson (Iceland) (5%)
• Free Write 100 times – 10 times (10%)
• 10 Lists of Things I Don’t want to Forget – 1 list (10%)
• Sort Through the Download from my Old Blog – 33% complete
• Work through the chapters of built to move and retest every 6 months – I did the first chapter (1.7%)
• Pantry Clean Out every 6 months – I did the first one (16.67%)
• Memorise 50 verses of scripture – Memorised Ps 19:14; Ps 143:8; John 3:16; Romans 12:2, Galatians 5:6 and Phillippians 2:5-7. (I’m partway through memorising the Christ Hymn in Phillippians 2:5-11.) (16%)
• List 1001 Things to be Grateful for – 11.89%
• Read Through the Bible – I’ve been reading a chapter most days, plus the common lectionary readings for the day (8.24%)
• Complete my piano course – 10%
• Master 5 new rhythm patterns and 5 fills and use them when I play – I used a new rhythm at church a few weeks ago (10%)
• Send 20 pieces of snail mail – I sent 6 postcards (30%)
• Make 1 phone call and send 4 texts every month to catch up with friends or family – I’m on track with this, but I’m allowing swapping out phone calls for texts.
• Family birthday dinners – We’ve been out for H, S and G’s birthdays, so on track (16.67%)
• Be the Gift (Random acts of helping) x40 – I’ve helped out random strangers twice (7.5%)
• Pickup Rubbish x4 – I picked up some rubbish on one of my walks (25%)
• Go to five neighbourhood talks, shows or other activities – I went to the Ansell Adams exhibition at the Bayside Gallery (20%)
• Spot and photograph 50 local birds – I photographed 5 (10%)
• Go to 5 new to me Melbourne Restaurants – we went to Serai and San Telmo which were both excellent (40%)
• Make 20 blackout poems – I did 1 (5%)
• 100 Project with my good camera – I have 3 so far (3%)
• Get to level 50 in Italian and 60 in French and 30 in Spanish (currently 7, 17 and 14 respectively) on Duolingo – I’m at 13, 19 and 14 respectively now (6.24%)
• Learn how to say my list of basic travel phrases in the language of each non-English speaking country we travel to. – I’ve done this for German and Italian (I can’t work out the percentage for this yet because I don’t know how many non-English speaking countries we’ll be traveling to)
• Time track for a week (x5) – I did one week in Noosa (20%)
• 10 Solo Screen-free days (TV watching with G allowed but no personal screen) – 1 time (10%)
• Inspired by Engie’s goal to spend more time outside I’m going to try to average two hours per day – I’m just under two hours a day average since I started my list
• Bake 20 sweet treats – I made a pretzel peanut butter slice and a peach upside-down cake (10%)
• Invite people for meals (x20) – I had mum and dad over for dinner when we were in Noosa (5%)
• Sibling catchups (x10) – we caught up over the weekend of my mum and dad’s 60th anniversary (10%)
• Garden (x40) – I gardened five times (12.5%)
• Make 50 new recipes – I’ve made 6 new recipes (12%)