I set the goal at the beginning of the year to crochet 36 hats to give away to charity. I met that goal on 8/28/2018 and thought I would share a bit about how setting goals and tracking them has revolutionized my productivity.

Actually, maybe I am just as productive as I ever was, but tracking my goals has made me realize just how much I am capable of accomplishing when I set my mind to it. When I don’t set a goal or track my progress toward a goal, I lose track of just how much I have done and so I am always feeling like I don’t get anything done.

Sometimes when it comes to crocheting the hats I make for donations to charity, all it takes is an idea for a new color scheme or yarn combination and then I want to at least start it so I can see how cool it will look. I hate having more than a couple of things started at once so I try to start and finish the hats during each of my monthly two-hour long crochet/knit group meetings. The knitters are always amazed at how quickly I can turn out a finished hat because apparently knitting takes much longer.

I won’t bore you with all the hats, but here are a select few for you to see how the same basic hat pattern can be infinitely different because of the combinations of yarns I choose to make them with.

Not only have I crocheted the 36 hats this year, but I also made  5 small fleece blankets edged with crochet to donate to charity. Then there are the dozen or so soap sacks I made to give to the homeless with new bars of soap in them.

So have you met any of the goals you set for 2018? How do you make sure you meet or exceed the goals? Let us know how you are setting and achieving goals in the comments below.

If you want to support my efforts to crochet or just want to own one of my hats, check the selection available for sale on my Etsy Shop. If you have leftover acrylic yarn and want to have me make it into hats to donate, contact me to make arrangements to send me your leftover yarn stash and I will get right on it!

Happy yarning!