Year end goals?

[onetruething]

Ok, 79 days until the end of the year- what do you want to have accomplished by then?

I'm more interested in your personal goals than your money ones, but I'd love to hear both!!!

[lime]

Personal-
Be healed enough from my injury to get back to running. (I'm doing spin now instead.)
Push past some of my fear points in another sport, which is a goal where I constantly move the bar up.
Convince H that we should take a 2 week long vacation next year

Professional-
Get this current gig mostly finished; which is somewhat dependent on the customer
Get at least one more consulting job lined up or started

Financial-
Finish funding our Individual 401k

[preppy]

My year end goal is to be in a new role at work. Preferably something in events or marketing. I am meeting with HR Thursday:)

[msmerymac]

real life goals - get the house up to par (we close Friday) and move in, most likely in December. We need to do some electrical wiring updates, replace all light fixtures, tile the kitchen floor, paint the entire interior and refinish the floors. Two of those things are being hired out. Whew! Plus pack and move.

professional goals - apply for more jobs, hopefully get some interviews.

[Susie]

Hmm.  I have had a big year already, so at the risk of being greedy...

- run 1st half marathon
- finish 1st half ironman
- make partner
- become car loan free
- get our collective SL balance under the $200k mark (starting point:  $280k)
- run 2nd half marathon (Philly, 11/17, if I can keep going through a minor Achilles injury)
- finally paint the mate to a bookcase that's in our living room. Please motivate me on this one:  this will look so much better with a 2nd identical bookcase on the other side of the piano - and you can't believe I've left it like this for 2 years - right?  The 2nd one is sanded and in the garage.



I also want to paint our front and side garage doors purple.  Half of this battle is the painting; the other half is selling Calvin on the idea of purple.

[Pom]

NaNoWriMo
Complete clean-out and organization of the garage, storage building, master closet, storage closet and desks. We still have boxes out there from when we moved in last year Donate, donate, donate.
Take off 10 pounds
Finish painting the exterior iron fence around the property (and save ourselves $3200, so MM)

[HoneySpider]

Get pregnant
DH get a new job/move

Those are pretty much the only ones I care about.

[Deleted]

-Get a new-to-me car (preferably before Thanksgiving)
-Sell current car
-Stay within the Christmas budget
-Finally get over the morning sickness and pregnancy yuckiness and got on top of housekeeping again.
-Hang pictures in our house & finish backsplash for inside projects
-Finish current phase of backyard landscaping (still need bark in flower beds, dirt behind retaining wall, & building a fountain)
-Get family pictures done for Christmas card.
-Get an IRA started. I've had money deposited into a savings account every paycheck so that I can get the $3k minimum to start. I have the money at this point, I just need to get the thing started.

[Deleted]

Get back in the weight loss mode.
Read 5 more books.
Attend 2 adoption information nights and decide what route we want to take with adoption next year.

[Deleted]

Oct 14, 2013 18:08:55 GMT -5 Susie said:

Hmm.  I have had a big year already, so at the risk of being greedy...


- finally paint the mate to a bookcase that's in our living room. Please motivate me on this one:  this will look so much better with a 2nd identical bookcase on the other side of the piano - and you can't believe I've left it like this for 2 years - right?  

The lack of symmetry is disturbing.  You must fix this immediately!

[dietdrpepper]

Lose 25 lbs by the end of the year. I'm down 15, want to lose 25 by year end, and lose my last 30 next year.

I'm hoping by this year end weight I'll be able to fit into my wedding rings again!

[hurricanedrunk]

Join a gym with a pool for winter
Finish up passport application for DH & I.
Family Photos for Christmas cards
Two more runs on the schedule a 5k & 15k.
New couch shopping- would like new sectional for start of the year.

[jene]

Stay active during pregnancy
Max our 401(k) accounts (on track)
Continue with house organization
Put backsplash in kitchen

[hulley]

I'd like to lose 10 lbs.
get the all-clear from PT to get back to the gym
Ideally, be released from PT
Start a Roth

[les]

Every year seems to go by more quickly than the one preceding it.

I want to successfully complete this semester of nursing school, plan a vacation for December, and make a more concerted effort to exercise regularly and eat healthfully.

[Deleted]

Our MM goal was to increase net worth by 20%. We were at 24% on 9/30 so we should be set there!

And I wanted to read 25 books. and I've read 20 so far.

So a good year goal-wise I guess!

[onetruething]

Here are mine:
Personal
1. I will work out at least 3x week.
2. I will cook dinner for my family 5 nights a week, and Bagel Bites do not count!!
3. I will meditate / yoga/ walk something for my own sanity 4/ week.

Financial
1.If current offer is not accepted, I will have added 12K to dp fund.
2. If current offer is accepted, that 12K will add to efund
3. Max out my and DH Roths.

[madringal]

I have 4 lbs to lose to get to my goal weight. I've been floating here for the last three months. I don't actually care if I hit that number because I like how I look/feel now, but it would be nice to say I 'hit goal'.

I need to save an additional 1k to pay for a party we are throwing for IL's 40th anniversary. I should have been saving more all year.

[winnied]

1. Secure and finalize my promotion (it's been a work in progress since June...grrr)
2. Building savings back up after summer set backs

[IrishBelle]

Oct 14, 2013 18:44:12 GMT -5 dietdrpepper said:

I'm hoping by this year end weight I'll be able to fit into my wedding rings again!

Me too! I realized the other day that its been almost 3 years since I've worn them :?

My goals are:
- Lose 20 pounds to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight
- Get more organized at home
- Spend more time with my girls.  Our evenings go by so fast and we really don't have time for anything other than dinner, bath and homework.
- Get out more in order to meet new people and expand my friend network.  I really don't have many friends and its lonely.
- Learn to ice skate

[FishChicks]

Sell our house.
Get settled into my new job and new city.
Finish the year living in the same city as DH. This one is the most important to me.
Find a place to rent in our new city that's within budget.

[rikki]

Get down to my pre-pregnancy weight.
Eat healthier.
Make dinner a couple of times per week.

[bostonmichelle]

Lose 5 lbs before holidays and stay at that weight.

Get up to run 3 days a week and do a workout 5 nights a week.

Not dip into savings more than budgeted for the end of the year.

Make my wedding album since its been over a year since we got married.

[Deleted]

I'm calling 2013 a win. Two new jobs and one new baby. Would have been nice to buy a house but oh well, hello 2014.

[lime]

Oct 14, 2013 20:36:20 GMT -5 @coffeecream said:

I don't remember by goals for 2013 - does anyone have that link? But currently:

Here's a few posts that I found quickly.


pandce.proboards.com/thread/112925/2013-resolutions

pandce.proboards.com/thread/108676/poll-2013-net-worth-goal

pandce.proboards.com/thread/107882/2013-goals-mm-nmm

pandce.proboards.com/thread/104513/goals-post-any-2013-planned

HTH

[mlvmd]

Get a promotion (and raise)-done!
Fully fund retirement to IRS max (on track)
Pay off grad school student loans (on track for February)

All of this is somewhat dependent on the shutdown resolving...we are losing a lot of money right now. We can survive for a while but it means that all of our financial goals are getting short changed.

[wanderlustmom]

I have a month to go before my marathon and I want to complete it.
I would like to start taking Spanish classes.
I maintained my weight all year, worked out five days a week, cooked dinner most weekday nights and made time for the kids and date nights.
I would like to have more sex.
I want to save enough money for us to get a new patio next summer.

[kateross]

Personal goals:  Not doing very good. 

I have made no new friends, and I did drop one of them.  I need to go back to taking my certification.  I did get a raise.  I gained 20 pounds, instead of losing 10.  I'm still TTC'ing.

[kateross]

Also:

1. Re-build e-fund.  We used them with the doctor and car expenses.

2. We did increase DH' 401K contributions.

3. We need to finish some home projects which will take us back $2K in order to sell the house.  Backsplash, complete fencing, store some crap to self-storage, repaint some parts of the house, and overall stage house.

4.  Close on a new house. 

[nsl]

1) Lose 10 more pounds by December 31 (for a total of 45 lost this year) to be on track for my goal weight by graduation/Italy trip

2) Save for Italy trip

3) Make a dent in my thesis, or at least do most of the literature review over the holidays.