Goals for 2015

Planning the year ahead & setting goals is one of my absolute favorite things to do!

I've come up with a few areas of focus this year, and some goals within them:

• Financial
• Meet with a financial advisor
• Save $50,000 towards a downpayment for a house in California
• Put $10,000 in the boys college accounts
• Pay $55,000 towards our mortgage principal(s)
• Save for our 2015 travel budget in advance
• Stick to our budget
• Re-plan our yearly budget categories
• Family
• Look for more opportunities to have fun with the family.
• Be more present with the kids.
• Come up with a five year plan that minimizes my need to work in my career (open to other work options).
• Fitness/health
• Lose 10 pounds, bringing my weight to 135. If this goal sounds similar to last year's, that's because it is. I managed to lose 8 lbs, and then gained it back during the second half of the year. Sigh.
• Run another half marathon.
• Track my food/exercise every day.
• Complete 10,000 minutes of cardio
• Complete 100 strength workouts.
• Complete 75 stretching workouts. 
• Work/career
• Keep better perspective at work/reduce stress.
• Reduce my hours.
• Giving back
• Figure out a way to volunteer. I'd like to volunteer at the boy's school, as it's important for me to be connected. But, the hours are terrible. I need to be a bit more creative about options.
• Increase our charitable giving by 25%
• House
• Declutter each room in the house
• Clean out the garage
• Personal/creative
• Have one date night with M per month
• Learn a new skill. I'm thinking of learning a new language, but would be fine with anything: sewing, knitting, expanding my baking, etc.
• Make time for my friends! Do something social at least once per month.
• Read 50 books. 

Being a balanced person is not easy, is it? ;-) Okay, those are my goals! I'm pretty excited about them. How about you? What are your goals for 2015?