I’ve never been big on New Year’s resolutions, simply because I prefer to plan and adjust my goals monthly rather than annually. However, the start of a new year is when I go over all my finances and look back over the past calendar year to see how I did overall - in every aspect of my life.
As I plan out my next year, I’ll decide what I want to do and how I can best accomplish those goals. I also ponder over different potential scenarios, recognizing that life doesn’t always follow the plan setup at the beginning of a calendar year.
I have nothing ‘new’ that I want to accomplish this year - nothing that I decided to start on Jan 1, but all my previous goals are still around getting worked on - one small attainable step at a time.
Same Goals - New Year
Under each of these major goals, I have lists (many many lists!) of smaller goals that I work towards.
- Continue doing the activities I love:
Climbing, traveling and now my newest crush (not quiet love yet): cycling.
- Continue working towards my financial goal which is less then two years away now.
- Continue becoming more environmentally and health aware and making changes that I can.
Then there are my challenging goals…these are the goals that I want to do, but have issues following a plan and getting them done:
- Simplifying
- Fitness
- Spanish
One thing I realized as I reviewed this list, is that these three personally challenging goals fall directly under some of the goals and activities that I’m passionate about, so perhaps if I focus more on their relationship with things I love, they will become easier to accomplish.
Fitness will make me a stronger climber and a better cyclist, enabling me to do harder climbs and accomplish some of the longer rides I would like to eventually do.
Simplifying, among many benefits, is connected to both my environmental and financial goals. I need to free myself both emotionally and physically of a lot of stuff before I go move on to my next living space, and it is in line with my low-consumer ideals.
Spanish mostly stems from a general goal of self-improvement. I have a strong feeling that I should know a second language - I want to know a second language. As far as connecting this to one of my larger goals, knowing another language would be exetermly beneficial for traveling.
I’ll just keep on working on these…
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Life,
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