Seven months down already. That's just crazy. Anyway, straight into it...

Goal Number One: Develop Swollen Pickles into a website that can generate $350US per month.

Effort + Output = Reward. That is probably why I am making very little progress on this goal. $141.03, yeah it's up slightly from $105.98 in June, but it's still less than half way toward the $350 target.

Goal Number Two: Develop Swollen Pickles into a website that receives 35,000 unique visits per month.

Snuck over the target with 35,518 unique visits in July, down from 42,793 unique visits in June.

What I found most interesting about the traffic statistics for July was that 9.52% of traffic to Swollen Pickles came from Bing.

Goal Number Three: Exercise a minimum of three times per week (30 plus minutes per session).

I managed to maintain this goal for the month of July. I'm on a roll.

Goal Number Four: Achieve a Body Mass Index (BMI) within the "Normal" range (from 18.5 to 25).

Getting closer!! I started the year with a hefty BMI of 29, at the end of June it was down to 26.5 by the end of July my BMI was 25.7. My short term goal for the next month is to get the BMI below 25.

Goal Number Five: Reduce my waist measurement to below 94cm.

When I set my goals at the start of the year, I never expected it to take me this long to get hold of a tape measure. In any case, I have no idea what I started at, and I don't really have an accurate measure of where I'm at now. I can say, that I now fit in to pants with a 97cm waist and I need a belt.

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