Goals for 2019

I love the beginning of the new year, and new goals. January always feels like a time filled with potential for the year ahead. I'm excited to tackle my 2019 goals!

As with previous years, I find the buckets of goals helps me keep things in reasonable balance.


1) Financial:

• Stick to the budget
• Come up with a "pay off our house" model, & a 3/5/10 year plan
• Every month, come up with a new way to reduce what we need/spend on an ongoing basis.
• Make $3,000 in side hustle money (I made $2,791 in 2018, so this will be a nice stretch)
• Continue to track "unplanned" money & divert it to our goals
• Increase our charitable giving to cover the new corporate match. 

2) Family - Spend more time together as a family!

• Do a minimum of one fun activity/month with the kids. 
• Be more present with the kids & M - play games, minimize computer time, exercise together, etc. 
• Have two dates with M per month

3) Fitness/health - lose 15 pounds 

• Eat 5 servings of fruit & vegetables/day
• Build & follow a training plan & run a half marathon in under 2:25. 
• Work out every day in 2019. (Realistically, this will be completing 365 workouts, vs hitting every day. I want a bit of flexibility for days I'm sick, traveling, etc.) 
• Get back to more actively tracking my calories
• Complete 10,000 minutes of cardio
• Complete 100 strength workouts.
• Complete 75 stretching workouts.
• Complete 100 meditations

4) Work/career - Improve my work life balance.

• Keep better perspective at work/reduce stress (until I leave)
• Take a sabbatical
• Decide on returning to work part time
• Stop using electronics by 7:30 each evening

5) Personal/creative - Spend more time on myself/creative pursuits.

• Make time for my friends. Do something social at least once per month.
• Volunteer a minimum of 1x/month
• Write/journal 
• Make something homemade for Christmas
• Make photo books & get rid of our all extra digital & photo clutter

What about you? What are your goals for 2019?