2020 BINGO -- A choose-your-own-goals challenge

Hmm, well, no. I set goals like that in 2019 and failed :laughing: If I focused on any one or two of my goals, I could knock them out in a couple months. I deliberately set goals in a way that I can accomplish a lot of them with inconsistent or casual effort. I can work on organization goals one weekend, baking goals another, crafting goals another.

@CalBal I love that Habitica perfect days are on your list!

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If not for Habitica I would never get anything done, not even normal “adulting” type things. My problem is that I can often get most of my Dailies done, but there are one or two ones that I consistently miss (and they are things that I do want to do every day) and sometimes I will defer things that are more like weeklies or monthlies, but if I do that to much I end up with a big list of these things, and that is overwhelming, because some of them take considerably more time or effort (like, for example, scrubbing the bathtub). For this purpose I am considering a “perfect” day one that I get all the Dailies done (regardless if I do any Habits or things on my ToDo). Really I just want to be a better adult. :joy:

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Happy New Year everyone! I’m pumped to start working on this BINGO board. I found a Half Marathon that I will be registering for and I went for a run today. :slightly_smiling_face: I even killed to birds with one stone by meditating during my run instead of listening to music. With the cold weather it was helpful to quite my mind and focus on breathing instead of my cold hands :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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A lot of my goals I think will take consistent effort through the year, especially concerning reducing pain and increasing activity. Also growing my hair longer, increasing flexibility, saving $15k, and reading 52 books.

My plan for pain/activity related goals is to keep continuing on the path I’m on now, but being more proactive when something isn’t working and finding new solutions.
My plan for other goals is just to revisit them constantly. My biggest hindrance to not hitting goals (outside of athletic/financial ones) is just forgetting about them. If I can consistently remind myself (daily, weekly) of what I’m striving towards then I will stay motivated throughout the year.

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Okay, I’m finally ready!

Making 2020 Mine

B I N G O Guide
Open and contribute to a 529 college savings plan Get sterilized Complete a beginning swimming course Save $6000 for Partner’s Associate Degree Save $2000 for UK trip in August Financial Goals
Finish designing RedQuillPen’s tattoo Research becoming a mobile notary Take piano lessons Record a video with Art of the Budget First tattoo Admin
Establish living will Compose and send 1 handwritten letter a month Digitize family albums Make one vegetarian meal a week Put $1000 in Roth IRA Health
Establish will/estate Beging 2019 tax filing 7 days after receiving W2 Find a low-impact physical activity that you enjoy Read 50 books in 2020 Prepare and eat 2 work weeks of lunch/dinner Because I can
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Poop. It didn’t keep my formatting, now the guide makes no sense. I’m restricted to Google Sheets/Docs/etc., does anyone know how I could make a spreadsheet an image file instead? And pretty please click the link, I made it pretty :sob:

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Can you export to PDF?

Yes! Can I then change it to an image file somehow?

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That I’m less sure on. You could also take a screen shot of it. Just spitballing :slight_smile:

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Thaaaaat’s a good point, I’ll do that haha.

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I FIGURED IT OUT.

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Pretty! Are you missing a row? You can’t do column or diagonal bingo with only 4 rows.

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I am, thank you! I thought I didn’t have enough space for everything I planned…Be back in a bit with an update!

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I think my goal of not ordering from Amazon is going to be very hard and will not be complete until December 31st. I set this goal to try and buy more locally and also reduce waste, packaging from Amazon and other retails can be excessive!

Another goal that will take all year is to max out my 401k contribution but I am less worried about this because I was able to complete this goal in 2019 even though I was on leave for 12 weeks. So I maxed it out in 9 months so this year should actually be easier as the amount will be less per check.

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Fixed!

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Thanks to Oro’s suggestion of a screen shot, I might be able to upload my bingo board. Will this work?

Edit: well, it’s not great but it will do until I get onto my work computer (That I am in no hurry to do!)

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It’s just fine!

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Most of mine are full year goals - I may not hit bingo at all until December. However, I’m enjoying the bujo trackers I’ve set up for them. :wink:

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I think most of my financial goals will take the whole year, if I hit them at all. We really don’t make much, but I am keeping them on my bingo card because I still want to try to hit them by picking up a part-time job or more freelancing work as stretch challenges.

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Most of my goals will take the year. Some specifically I have to wait until 12/31 to quantify (and compare to last year and such). I think the major trend in the goals I set was setting a quantity like do X, x number of times before end of the year, with a pretty high number, so I’ll need to be consistent to achieve that goal. The only directly daily-level actionable goals are “brush teeth before bed” and “don’t buy coffee” and yes I think about buying coffee every day even though it’s been years since I quit my near-daily buying habit. Also out of three nights of 2020, I’ve already forgotten to brush my teeth before bed twice. I have to brush my teeth before leaving my house and usually within around an hour of waking up, but I’m really bad about doing it before I fall asleep. So the brushing goal is less of a perfect 100% success rate goal, which I knew from the start, so I’m not sure why I phrased it the way I did. It’s more of a “how many days of a positive streak can I get in a row?” or if I only forget <50 times, out of 365 days, that would be a successful result compared to past habits. I am also thinking about starting to brush my teeth when I get home from work, so if I forget before bed, it was still twice a day? I’ll consider all this a success if I can edit the original goal but then achieve what I moved the goalpost to.

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