I...am a hero.

Checking in on my 2026 goals and recapping how I did in February!

 PERSONAL FITNESS

1. Keep track of how many times I have used the Sauna in 2026 

February had really weird weather and I had jury duty for 5 weeks so I used the Sauna a few times but not super often. I think that so far, we are up to maybe 10-12 times of usage?

2. Get to a VO2 Max of 34

My goal for February was to hit 1.2 miles in 12 minutes and although I didn't run much this month because of jury duty, I was able to get to 1.18, which was pretty tough. I was able to do it a few times, and ran a mile a few times as well. In March, I am aiming for 1.26 and am going to try running more than once a week, and try running faster sprints as well as more consistently without stopping.

3. The Great Clock In Cut Program restarting on Feb 28!

So, Jury Duty screwed me and I did not do any weight lifting from the program in February...

4. Decrease Body Fat Percentage to 25% and decrease weight to 130 lbs

So Feb's goal was 142, and I was able to weigh in at 143 lbs! I didn't lose as much muscle as I was afraid of while on Jury Duty and next month, I am aiming for 140 lbs. I want to be down 2 lbs by the end of March, and focus on weight training. Ideally, we are aiming for under 140.

5. Zone 2 training for 45 minutes once a week

Been doing tons of Zone 2 because of Stepbet which is a lot harder to do with 2 businesses and fewer color analysis clients! I wasn't very consistent with this in January but I really tried to work on this in February and was fairly successful.

Planning on taking a rest from Stepbet in March and working on stairmaster and weightlifting.

WRITING and reading

6. Finish 2 books a month

Went to Silent Book club and working on finishing up some books from last year. I had read a lot of books that I had forgotten to keep track of in my tracker, so some of them were also mixed in from last year or reread. I also met my reading goal for the month by reading romance novels, so I want to up my goal next year and also finish up books that I had started in 2025.

I’m currently reading:

"Outlive” by Peter Attia and Bill Gifford
"ADHD is Awesome" by Penn Holderness
"Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring" by JRR Tolkien
"Trusting God" by Jerry Bridges
"Everyone Fights" by Kim and Penn Holderness
"The Happiness Project" by Gretchen Rubin
"The Happiness Advantage" by Shaun Achor
"The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss
"Die With Zero" by Bill Perkins

Books read in 2026 include:

1. How People Grow
2. Resistance Training
3. Catch Her if You Can
4. Wild Card
5. The Mating Game
6. Pretty Prey
7. Come Back to Bed
8. Troublemaker
9. Problematic Summer Romance
10. Dangerous Notes
11. Beautiful Torment
12. The Marriage Bet
13. Hate Me Like You Mean it
14. He Sees You When You're Sleeping
15. He Knows When You're Awake
16. Black Sheep
17. Room For Two
18. Two Can Play
19. Once Smitten, Twice Shy
20. Hawaii Can Suck It
21. Italy Can Bite Me
22. Mexico Can Choke On It
23. The Love Start Up
24. Tourist Season
25. How to Unf*ck Your Habitat
26. Kiss Me Like I Didn't Kill You
27. Kiss Me Like I Didn't Break You

7. Continue with regularly writing my blog posts to document my work out journey

8. Continue the 365 Bible Reading Plan at Calvary

Super behind on this as well but will be catching up this week.

HOME

9. Clean and declutter for 20 minutes a day using Forest with Frank

I have been doing this more consistently as a part of our daily routine.

10. Clean off surfaces in the house and have a place to store everything and put them back

I haven't figured out a trigger for this but after dinner might be a good idea for me. Especially since by 4pm I am so done with working for the day.

11. Pan 2 lipsticks

Making some progress here by hitting pan on one of my lip balms!

12. Pan an eyeshadow

Done!!

13. Pan a perfume

Making progress here

14. Finish up 3 containers of tea before Summer

Done! Finished up my dandelion tea and purchased some more.

FAMILY/FRIENDS

15. Plan our 2025 trips

Planned Florida trip and bought tickets, just need to book an airbnb!

16. Do the splits

17. Finish my second pair of socks!

FINISHED!!! My first goal of the year!!

18. Finish my first sewn garment 

19. Finish a baby quilt for Sera

Almost done with my first quilt!!

20. Finish organizing all of my random notes (270 of them) into 1 system

21. Post my progress regarding these resolutions on this blog on the first day of every month.

4/21 so far in February is not too shabby! Hoping to make progress on 1-2 of my goals next month.