Every year I set goals for myself across various areas of my personal life that I want to try to accomplish during the year. Some are small, some are big, some are rather “well, duh,” but still, they help me have targets to aim at and remind of things I need to do, so I keep setting them. 🙂
Usually, I post these on my LiveJournal account, but since they are generally public there, I decided this would be one of the first bits of content to move over here to the new blog format. I’ll also post the monthly goal updates that I used to post there here as well.
As I mentioned in a recent post there, I’m still not entirely decided on how I want to deal with posts. Right now, I’m leaning towards anything that would have been public on LJ will go here, anything that wouldn’t will stay there as I’ve yet to find a WordPress plug-in that gives me anywhere near the amount of control I had on post viewing that LJ did.
So with all that said, let’s get on to my goals for 2016! I had a much harder time coming up with my goals for this year than I usually do, maybe do to stress, but it’s a start.
My goals are grouped in broad categories and I sometimes chain my goals (i.e. make goals that lead from one to the next). I do try to make them “SMART” goals, though how well I do that is another matter.
Financials
- Pay off the $5,000 personal loan I took out to replace the flat roof
- Switch off current primary bank and close those accounts
- Get mortgage balance below $85,000
- Get student loan balance below $20,000
- Emergency fund back to $1,000
- Keep Ting bill under $30/mth.
Fitness and Health
- Reach target weight of 145 lbs. (weight on January 1st: 165.6)
- Do some form of physical activity, be it go to the rec, walk, or bike campus, at least twice a week
- Get a new swimsuit so have option to swim by this summer
- Work up to consistently walking up the stairs at work, where feasible (if carrying groceries, etc. can still take elevator)
- Do strength training with partner at least twice a week, weather/life permitting
- Bike ride at least once a week, weather/life permitting
Around the House
- Update/replace locks on front and back door
- Replace or repair ripped up screen door
- Replace faucets in bathroom and add shut off valves (stretch: replace the sink with a decent, relatively inexpensive vanity)
- Paint bedroom
- Repair holes in fascia board and soffits
- Repair leaks in main house roof
- Clean up/out bathroom closet and reorganize
- Clean up/out home office closet (smaller one)
- Clean up/out built-ins in cat’s room
- Get the final drawer back in the actual kitchen cabinet
- Weed front gardens and try to add new plants as finances permit
- Clean up back gardens or disassemble until have time/money to properly maintain
- Get another display cabinet for figurines and what not
- Repair or replace garage door opener
Hobbies
- Complete at least one “project,” started or not, that’s sitting around the house (e.g. puzzle, design own painted pony, horse rug, model car kit, etc.)
- Play through at least 3 console games (Tales of Graces F won’t count for this purpose since it was primarily paid in 2015)
- Finish at least one PC game of: Age of Empires II (by completing all campaigns), Age of Empires III (ditto), Baldur’s Gate, Dragon Age: Origins, or Railroad Tycoon II (complete all missions)
- Watch at least 40 DVDs from collection
- Cull DVD collection
- Recode An Eclectic World to PHP with proper admin
- Evaluate possibility of switching to new hosting company
Everything Else
- Replace dying work issued iPad with personal tablet
- Clean out and replace dated (5+ years old) make up
- When hit target weight, give self a $200 budget to go clothes shopping and get rid of any remaining “fat” clothes
- Again look at, and hopefully take, Oracle Certified Professional, MySQL 5.6 Developer Certification exam
- Look at and potentially take Zend PHP 5.5 Certification exam