Goal Post

Goals for 2009. I won't say resolutions, because I like goals. And I want them to be something I can either check or X at the end of the year. I did it or not, not something where I did most of the time. That makes it hard to come up with these. But I did it last year and I was conscious of them all year which is great (I knew I had to do another charity thing after August for example). So here goes.

1. Get pregnant by the end of the year. There ya go, with that on my plate, it's sort of hard to make a lot of other things because I don't know much about being pregnant (can't have any weight loss goals for the end of the year now can I? also hard to say how many races I can do etc, how much money I can save up, what holidays we can do). I think I will allow a reassessment of goals when I do get pregnant because I'm sure I'll want to make pregnancy goals (save this much for baby, exercise so often etc).

2. Weigh less than 135 when I do get pregnant. I'd like that to be the top end of my comfort range. I was 1 lb away before and I loved it. Should hopefully be able to get there soonish and win my challenge with hubby. So I'm going to change that to weigh less than 135 by my 27th birthday in March. 10 lbs in almost 3 months. doable.

3. Donate $200 to charity over the year. Not just the kids who knock on the door to sell chocolates, but find a charity that I believe in and seek them out.

4. Exercise 150 days this year. (about 3 days a week, fine on regular weeks but tough on vacations, holidays, when I'm sick etc.) with this goes keeping track of my exercising. Blog will be good for this.

5. Have $1000 in my personal account at the end of the year. (we get $400/month for personal, and it includes clothes, make-up, scrapbook supplies, gym memberships, hair cuts etc. I always spend it because I have it, but I don't need this stuff. I want to save up for my big ticket wants - a piano, a holiday in Europe, etc).

6. Read 6 books by the end of the year. I used to read all the time, (6 books a week sort of thing) but it took over my life, I'd do nothing but read. So I gave it up. But I got books for Christmas a year ago I haven't read yet. That's ridiculous. I read 1 book all last year, and it was between Christmas and New Year's.


I want to say be more efficient, stop procrastinating, keep a clean house, be more proactive, don't be lazy. But there's no way to be accountable with that sort of stuff. So it won't go here, it'll go on the weekly or monthly plans. I dunno, I don't really feel great about this list. But again, I'm quite happy with how everything is going my life. I don't really think I need to change to many things over the next year. Plus it's hard to plan for a year when there's going be a big upheaval in the middle of it. Well we'll go with this. Plus I think I'd like to do some more monthly and weekly goals. Things like make sure the house is clean before I go to bed, put laundry away as it's done. Little things I can keep track of for a short time but couldn't put on my 2009 list. Any thoughts anybody? Am I wussing out compared to last time?