June/Spring/Year Goal Review

June Personal Goals

• Give Rebellion (my novel) to at least 2 people.  Yes. Four, I believe.
• Piano - Rememorize/Polish 3 pieces.  Mostly done. The Beethoven piece was more difficult.
• Write and post 4 writer's blog posts.  2 done, 2 outlined.
• Enter a writing contest.  I consider this done because I found a good one to enter, but haven't done it yet.
• Read 3 books.  
• Diet.  Mostly. Slacked off pretty bad this last week though.

June Equine Goals

• Trim Lady's feet twice.  No. I tried but couldn't get very far because of the lack of rain. Hard hooves.  
• Cover Level 2 Liberty and Level 3 OnLine.  Yup. Needs some work, but went over it all.
• Film 1 session.  Yes!!
• Get off the property every session.  Almost every time. Went pretty well. :)
• Learn USDF Intro Test A.  Only ridden it 1 time, but I have it memorized.
• Go into the canter every ride.
• Progress to 5 minutes trotting at a time.

Spring Equine Goals

• Start working in Parelli Levels 3/4 OnLine
• Improve fitness so I can master the rising trot  Not mastered yet, but lots improved.
• Start riding in the canter  Not scared of it anymore!
• Jump a course of 1 ft jumps  Not a course, but jumped, yes :)
• Ride a 3.6 mile local ride confidently.  Nope, but made some progress towards it.

2014 Equine Goals

• Maintain Lady at a healthy weight.  So far, so good.
• Keep horse health records.  So far, not so good.
• Get a new saddle.
• Film regularly.  Not regularly, but got some stuff.
• Attend/Audit 1-2 clinics.  Money issues...
• Go to see some horse shows.  Again, money issues.
• Learn USDF Intro Tests A, B, and C.  Got test A going this month.  :)

2014 Personal Goals

• Maintain a blog post schedule.  Definitely doing better!
• Read more books.  Kept up quite well!
• Publish my novel.  Being edited now, so on the road to this too.
• Get published in a magazine.  Uhh... ooops.
• Win Camp NanoWrimo.  Won in April. Plan to win in July again.
• Complete Hanon piano exercise book.  Slow... and boring, but I'm attempting to persevere.
• Create a decent pianist's repertoire.  Got about six/seven songs right now. Good start.
• Be ready for my college music audition.  Been planning this lately. Think I've chosen my music.
• Play the violin again. Ooops.
• Graduate from Paris Junior College.  Have my classes scheduled for this to happen!
• Get my purple belt in taekwondo.  Testing for my green belt this week, so this is easily happening.
• Get along better with my big sister.  Yes, mostly. I feel that overall we're understanding each other better.