Hmmm I’m PTF and will mull this over and post!
2020 Goals:
General
- Do a voluntary talk at work.
- Call Home and Sister at least once a week.
- Read 52 books.
- Work on finding a housing situation which doesn’t make me lonely, and strategies for keeping in touch with best friend/ housemate, once she and her fiance move out.
- Get more involved with choir community even though it’s scary.
- Flesh out my current plan of what I want after FI life to look like (though its at least 10 years away).
- Do something cool with the Raspberry Pi sitting in my cupboard
- Reduce my Carbon footprint to below world average - I estimate that I can achieve that if I don’t fly at all, reduce non-essential purchases, and start switching to organic food. Offset what’s left.
Health
- Figure out a healthy (and non-restrictive) meal rotation, with the aim of losing 5kg by the end of the year.
- Do Park run weekly whenever I’m at home.
- Finally sort out my terrible posture.
Financial
- Put £1000/month into savings.
- Increase my charity spending to 10% of after tax income
- Keep variable (e.g. non rent, non bills) spending to below £400/ month average.
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- Yoga practice minimum 3x a week.
- Bike to Mordor (1932 miles)
- Plant an apple tree in our yard.
- Minimum once a month date night out and minimum once a month do a thing with friends (work doesn’t count).
- Increase emergency fund to 6 months
Probably more to come, but this is a start.
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I propose we rename this thread to 2020 Vision 
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YES
Given the list of projects that I came up with trying to get one of my goals done on the November budget thread, 2020 looks like the year of house projects for me. Which actually works out fairly well; usually I rent out the two bedrooms in my basement for the summer through a local program (not visiting nurses, but along similar lines) but this coming summer my father and some other retired relatives wanted to use my place as a home base for some see-the-west travel so I was already figuring I’d take a year off. Now I just need to get my list sorted…
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Loving family
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To start: What is PTF?
Goals:
- Save for trip to the UK in July 2020 estimated $3,000
- Save for partner’s Associates Degree by Fall 2020 estimated $6,000
- Establish substantial emergency fund estimated $5,000
- Research and fund cost of sterilization estimated cost TBD
Methods
- Moved in with family, paying $300/mo in rent, no utilities cost.
- Using YNAB to budget and track goals.
- Food prepping to reduce grocery and eating out costs.
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Continue my current streak of low sugar diet (made a vast improvement this past year, need to continue the healthy habits
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Increase my income (promotion or raise at work/ new job? / new side job(s) )
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Pay off one of my smallest student loans (to free up monthly cash flow)
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home-cooked work lunch every single day ---- this one is a tad ambitious for me
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Housing: actually make friend(s) in my city and find good, responsible roommates OR find a place to live alone
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Go to the movies more, but also budget so this is comfortable
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I hadn’t even realized how soon the new year is already! Here are my goals for next year:
- Sew at least 12 things. I want to keep on my ultimate goal of a mostly handmade wardrobe and think one thing a month is manageable.
- Keep trying new dinner or baking recipes. It really makes me happy to try new foods.
- Grow more in the garden and garden year round.
- Be more outdoorsy. I’ve been working on this and have been going hiking more often. Bonus with this is I also am inviting others to join in.
So looks like my overarching goal is to get better at being self-sufficient while also fostering friendship.
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“Posting to follow” 
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Thank you! Saw it everywhere and I’m new to the forums (been listening to the podcast for months, though!).
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Welcome to the forum!!
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We’re glad you’re here!
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2020 Goals:
Financial:
- Pay off personal loan before September
- Pay off 2 credit cards
- Continue to contribute $40 per pay period to HSA
- Build up non-HSA savings to $1,000
- Contribute $500 to IRA
I would also like to continue my Duolingo Spanish streak and keep it unbroken.
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OK, here is my socially acceptable list of goals. This took me an entire morning and spending that time on it was very worthwhile.
Guiding word for 2020 is Connection.
FITNESS (mental & physical)
- Ride my bike to Sister’s house and back.
- Tai Chi for 3 terms during the year
- Bodyweight training program every day for 30 days
- See a therapist re: body/ sensory issues.
FAMILY
- One holiday every 2 months (6 by end of year)
- Family bike rides by end of year
- Morning and evening routine as a team
PARTNERSHIP
- Date night once a month out of the house
- Leave Duckling to sleep over at a grandparent’s house once by the end of the year, and be put to bed by a grandparent at our house
HOUSE
- A timeline for all the renovations we’d like to do
- Quotes or estimates for every renovation
- A study I can work in.
- Get waste down to 1 bin every 2 weeks.
COMMUNITY
- One local event every month
- Move Duckling to a care facility we can walk, bike or bus to
- Catch up with a friend once a month
PROFESSIONAL
- Complete a cultural respect training course (or two small ones)
- Learn to use R, Python and QGIS
- Post to my public Instagram once a month
- Build a professional community. Set aside 1 afternoon per fortnight to review social media and set up future cuppas.
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Yes, I’m in. Will post my goals “soon”
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Mine is long as usual, will do a full blog post like I do every year as well.
Money
- Pay taxes on time ($1K-$2.5K, April 15)
- Save 20% of my income
- total expenses below $20,000
- Rebuild emergency fund to $8,000
- get Patreon to $600/month by year-end
- Save $20,000
Content Creation:
- annual report out by Jan 31
- improve audio mix/pro tools skills
- monthly reports
- 20 youtube videos
- 40 podcast/radio episodes including video version
- new air check
- new reel
- Secret Project
Community:
- Run + support monthly challenges on OMD forums
- Keep helping OMD forums be a friendly, welcoming, supportive place
- Keep using friend spreadsheet
- More regular checkins
- Breakfast volunteering (14 all together)
- Teach 8 workshops with foster/homeless youth
Life
- have real checkin with self about sustainability of 3 jobs by June 31
- keep meal planning
- keep sleeping an average of 7-8 hrs a night
- make office studio design with SSO
- two bike trips
- trip to Thailand and/or spain
Skating/Fitness
- compete at pacific sectionals
- compete at adult nationals (if I can afford the trip)
- get my splits back
- weight training and off-ice plyometrics
- pass adult gold freestyle test
- level 4 spin
- passing standard +1 on front loop and rocker-chocktaw pattern
- two doubles and outside axel consistent
- death drop with 5 revolutions
- Stretch goal: go to Sun Valley Adult week
- Stretch stretch goal: Bike tour to Sun Valley
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2020 Goals
- Start Journaling - possibly start a blog, but at least journal on a weekly basis
- Meal Plan - Healthy meals I can make in bulk, keeping food spending within budget and avoiding dining out as much.
- Run! - 3 times a week, Register for the Twin Lobster half marathon (June 7th)
- Organize the whole house - tired of seeing so much stuff all over the place
- Purge 75% of my belonging - this plays into goal 4
- Yoga - Go to a class twice a month and practice at home at least once a week
- Max out 401k
- Throw extra cash at Student Loans - get at least one out of 7 paid off in full.
- Travel hack one vacation
- Bike “more” there is a great bike trail near our house and another longer one a few towns away. We have a bike trailer for Puglet so I really want to get out there and bike with him. I also would like to use my bike for running errands
- Make mediatation a daily habit
I really want to make this 20 goals so I will have to think some more but this is what I got for now.
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