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What I Did Right Last Year

Recap

Last year at this time, I didn't take the time to reflect on the previous year, and I didn't do a good job of planning out my upcoming year.  Because of this, I feel like I spent the first part of the year being inefficient.  I spent too much time on each class in school, I didn't get started on any sort of fitness goals until over halfway into the year and my house went from being super organized for my brother's visit for Christmas to a chaotic mess again.

What Went Right

Clothing
For the first time in my life, I have a wardrobe that works. For every occasion that happened last year I had the right clothes to wear available and that I felt good in. I have to credit a lot of that comfortable feeling to the fact that I obsessively track my wardrobe in Airtable.

 Airtable is a freemium platform that allows you to better visualize spreadsheets. I have every wardrobe item entered in this platform with a picture, description, pricing and category.  As I wear items, I put them onto an items worn calendar which then tracks the cost per wear of each item.

This has given me a lot of useful information and has made it so that I know what items I haven't worn in a while and those items that I really don't like wearing.

 Here is a list of the items that have the lowest cost per wear:

As you can see, I have worn my favorite skirt 90 times now!!

 I can also sort by least recently worn, highest cost per wear and more. I can also see that my wardrobe has a total paid price of over $13,000.  Does that seem like a lot?  Keep in mind that this does include shoes and outerwear, but does not include handbags. I would like to prevent that number from growing too much more, but I bet most of us have more money invested in clothes than we think. It is still a shocking number to see.

 Health - Mental, Physical and Otherwise
I had wanted to see a therapist for most of my life, but I never really knew who to see or if I could afford it. I got a great recommendation to someone who I have been working with for most of the year. I am not going to really get into this here, but it has been a good experience.

 I also *made* myself go to all of the doctors and yearly tests that I should have at this point.  Again, the biggest issues that I had with going to the doctor was finding someone good to go to.

 At the second half of the year, I made a food lifestyle choice based on talking to my therapist. I went back and forth between joining a weight loss community again or doing it on my own. I thought about seeing a weight loss doctor or a nutritionist, but in the end I decided to do your basic calories in/calories out paired with intermittent fasting and weighing myself everyday. That all lead to a 25 pound weight loss last year. I wish I would have started it earlier in the year, but I keep telling myself that I need to quit worrying about timelines. 

 Work
I was able to get the company that I work for to move forward towards a more unified way of doing things that will give them the foundation that they need to grow in the future. This involved taking a lot of scattered systems and putting them together in a way that made sense.

 Ill check back tomorrow with what I would like to accomplish next year and the rules for my budget.

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