Keep up my new improved level of fitness; push myself improve further by running another half marathon with updated time goal, and work on much-neglected upper body strength. Specifically my husband has challenged me to get myself to be able to do “10 in 2010” – referring to pull-ups. Yikes!! Right now I can’t do any, so this is a big challenge for me!
[one of husband's Christmas gifts this year. it's hanging on the doorway in the office, taunting me every time I walk by. good visual reminder to get myself to work out my arms...]
Eat less processed food. In other words ~ cook more! I'm really bad about this during the week... hard to find motivation to cook when it's just me.
Start a retirement account. We have lots of joint savings/investments, and my work doesn’t do any matching so I haven’t ever really felt the need to get my 403B set up. But I really need to get an account going in my own name.
[somehow a Roth IRA doesn't seem as cute!]
Get published!!!! The paper I wrote based on my master’s thesis has been “in preparation” for a year and a half now. This one is *not* the fault of my procrastination; my advisor is the one who’s been sitting on it. But I need to push him to get this submitted fast – considering I just attended a meeting where another lab is working on something really similar, I need this to get done ASAP.
Donate stuff to charity. We have lots of stuff that we don’t use any more. I should give it away to organizations that can pass it on to people who need these things.
Spend less time stressing out about how I don’t know what to do with my life or how I can possibly figure it out, and more time asking God to help me figure it out.
Keep up the good stuff from last year ~ volunteering, church women’s group, and of course, writing!
Host a party! I need to just pick a date and send out an invite. That will give me a deadline to actually do the fun party planning stuff.
[wine and cheese party would be fun!]
Travel to a new location. This is another goal that I want to keep up every year.. like how exercise/diet always seems to show up in new year’s goals.
Finish the wedding album!! Which brings us back to procrastination, and how I need to do less of it ;)
[well I have been working on this one for awhile... turns out making my own album is pretty time consuming!]
Alright, that’s ten for twenty-ten. The engineer in me likes my goals to be really quantifiable, and I think most of these are – just a few vague ones like the processed food and stressing about the future. But you need a few of those to leave some wiggle room, right? ;) Does this sound like a plan for a good year?
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