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Happy New Year to you all! Did you do anything exciting or fun?
I had grand plans- I waited until it was 2014 on the East Coast and I had plans for a solid night's sleep. My neighborhood had other plans that involved fireworks and possibly a gun or two. I was awake. I ended up watching NYPD Blue. That show was absolutely amazing. I adored Bobby Simone and Andy Sipowicz.
I am craaaazy and wild. Be jealous. I know you are.... like, really, really jealous. Right? Haha.
I've thought about my plans for this new year. Resolutions, Goals, Plans, Hope, Wishes, whatever you want to call them- I love a new year. Some people put their goals in other ways but I do like a fresh new calendar and beginning at a ground zero of sorts. My birthday is on January 10 and although I won't tell you my exact age but I will say, I am in my 30s, but I have a lot of goals and plans for 2014 and also a timeline of things I'd like to do by my 40th, 45th and 50th birthdays.
Before I share my goals for 2014, I want to take a look at my goals/resolution/whatever for 2013 and see what I did or did not hit and why! My post last year is here if you would like to read the entire post.
Here were my goals for 2013:
1. Less eating out. (It's so easy to hit a drive thru for lunch at work! However, it's so expensive! I will also eat healthier)
2. Fixing myself up more. Seriously. You should see me most days. They're lucky I brush my hair.
3. Better time management. With school, Emma, and work... I'm a mess.
4. Declutter.
5. Set a blogging goal. Whether it's once a week or just twice a month.
6. Open my business on Etsy this spring.
7. GET EMMA POTTY TRAINED!
8. Once a month: Go out with friends for dinner, drinks, coffee, whatever!
9. Join a meetup and GO.
10. I finish my degree this year and am taking one semester off.
11. Make it home to Kansas to visit family and friends.
12. Disneyland.
13. Get more active- exercise, community, etc. I am trying this again!
14. Take more photos. Seriously.
Did I achieve any of them? Some completely. Some only half way. Some not at all.
1. Only partially. I am still hitting the drive thru too often for lunch. Not eating much healthier but I am making more meals at home in the evening and weekend.
2. Meh. Barely. Ha.
3. Definitely better in this area- I am about 65-70% met.
4. Ha. A little bit. I started decluttering the last few months.
5. I have set a blogging goal that I have MOSTLY met and have kicked up my game since fall and my goal has been to blog twice a week. I have exceeded it most weeks.
6. Ha Ha Ha. Nope.
7. GOAL. ACHIEVED.
8. Nope. I have met a few friends a few times but not nearly enough.
9. Nope. Not at all.
10. Degree is finished. Yay!
11. I did achieve that goal but not for a reason I wanted to... my dad passed away and we did make it home. I did share some photos of our trip home here and here.
12. Not. even. close.
13. Kinda. I did two interviews about two organizations for disabled children. Read them here and here.
What do I have planned for 2014?
1. See the photo. Totally becoming a unicorn.
2. Emma dressing herself and taking better care of her hygiene.
3. Bumping the business goal to this summer.
4. Growing my blog. I would like to grow my readership and visitors. However, I need to create much more engagement- that is the most important part to me. I love chatting with you all!
5. I am going to try the socializing more route :)
6. I am a cookbook hoarder. My goal is to cook one meal a week out of my cookbooks. I have some GREAT cookbooks.
7. Begin degree numero dos.
8. Clean my credit up enough that I can get approved to buy property (not that I will have a down payment large enough by then but to get my credit rating higher).
9. Goes hand and hand with #8- out of credit card debt by May.
10. Achieve professional goals at work.
11. Disneyland is still on the dream list.
12. No new clothes until I am down two sizes.
13. Going to try the fix-myself-up-more goal again.
14. Still decluttering and downsizing. I would like to have a neat, clean home. What? A girl can dream, right?
14. Still decluttering and downsizing. I would like to have a neat, clean home. What? A girl can dream, right?
I think those are good enough for now!
What goals do you have for this new year?
I want to be a unicorn too! I'm working on growing my blog too, sometimes it's hard to pull away from my life to comment abd read like I need to. I hope you post the recipes you make weekly on your blog, I love seeing New recipes from blogging friends!
ReplyDeleteWouldn't becoming a unicorn be amazing? I'm ready!
DeleteIt is definitely hard to visit all the blogs and comment. It's a LOT of work!
Yes! I hope to! That's my goal *crosses fingers*