Spring is the time of plans and projects

― Leo Tolstoy. “Spring is the time of plans and projects.”

I love this quote and enjoy having a bit of a spring clean. In fact, I read somewhere that spring cleaning is actually good for your mental health and it releases endorphins. My WOTY this year was plan and it’s fully something I want to embrace, this prompt felt like a good opportunity to review these plans.

So my plans were:

Plans	Status
Food plans	Mostly on track (I have been following a monthly plan)
Exercise plan	Some variations but still an increase, so I don’t want to beat myself up about it too much.
Budget plan	Mostly on track, with everything going up in value we probably need to readjust a little.
Blog Post Plan	Mostly on track with the introduction of Tile Tales on Monday, followed by Book Reviews on Tuesday, WQW participation and #Writephoto Thursdays.
Research for the new novel	Time limitations have caused some issues with this but it’s still in the pipeline.
My Goodreads book reviews	Mostly on track.
More Writing (ideally finish first draft of one novel and start first draft of the second).	Time limitations have caused some issues with this but I hope to be back on track asap.

I also planned to revive my travel ambitions this year (if time and covid allowed), and luckily that has proven to be the case (although I am sticking with the UK for the moment). We took a brilliant trip to London earlier in March. I was hoping to visit the tower but we decided with our little guy it would be too much so we’ve saved that for another time.

We have a wonderful trip to Skye booked for later in the year. Two very different holidays.

I haven’t totally achieved all my targets but I think I have made good progress and I’m happy with that.

Have you set yourself any plans for this year? If so, I’d love to hear them.

KL

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Originally written in response to

• WQW – Spring
• Pensitivity’s three things Challenge  – TOTAL, SUCCUMB, REVIVE
• The Daily Spur – Value
• Word of the Day Challenge – Tower