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| Image Courtesy of Heidi Powell |
The recent hiccup in my life has left me with a new found
passion for life. I have realized that for far too long now I have just been
content with mediocrity and not driven to take the things from life that I
want. All of these self-realizations have made me think long and hard on what I
want to do with myself. With any life change it really pushes you to better
yourself or be lost. I don’t want to feel lost anymore so I have been working
to set myself up for success. In order to get to where I want to be I have
decided it’s time to set some goals for myself to help pave the road I’d like
to go down for my future.
S.M.A.R.T. Goals
For those of you that are not familiar with the S.M.A.R.T.
anagram it stands for smart, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound.
Over time I have realized how much easier it is to reach a goal when those
parts come in to play. They make you hold yourself more accountable for
reaching them. My goals will constantly evolve as I learn more and more about
myself but these are the ones that are important to me now.
Goals for 2013 Fall-2014 Summer
- Complete my web developer certification
- Work out 4x’s a week
- Travel to a foreign country
- Save $9000
- Make $4000 in side hustle income (to go towards savings)
- Relearn Sign Language
- Read 1 book per month
- Move to Dallas!
How I Plan on Getting There
I have plenty more but adding too many to the
list will become overwhelming and will prevent me from reaching any of them.
Baby steps are necessary in order to reach goals. I look at it as being similar
to Dave Ramsey’s snowball method. Attain the smallest goal first and then roll
that energy in to the next largest task. My smallest task (though it may not be
to some) is working out 4x a week because that is something I’ve already been
doing. The only part of that goal is maintaining. My next most tedious task to
tackle is going to be my web developer certification. This isn't too much of a challenge for me but it is very time consuming. I also believe that a
good way to reaching your goals is to keep somewhat of a progress
report to allow yourself to see the progress you’ve made.
Progress Report
- 2 weeks until completion of 1st class – a ways to go but getting there!
- Killing it on my workouts – A Transformation Tuesday picture should be in the works soon I’m thinking
- I haven’t decided where but I know I want to have this completed pretty soon too. Perhaps cruise for the bday?
- I am 11% there on the savings… It’s a start
- None yet, at least none that I’m counting. Garage sales starting this weekend and then Ebay here I come
- I have been doing some refreshing on sign language thanks to Pinterest; I need my signing buddy. Krr
- Does anyone have any suggestion for my book for the month? No romance novels please.
- This goal will probably be closer to Summer 2014 unfortunately but all depends on the progress of my savings.
