2009 Goals
Posted on December 31, 2009, 1:41 am, by Kathie.
On January 1st, I listed my goals for 2009. I tried something different this year and to be honest, I didn’t love this method. I’ll be going back to my usual list of specific goals in 2010. Here were my goals and how I did:
Health - I want to recommit to my health, I let this slide more than I care to admit and must get it back on track. Its not about weight loss, but rather about making healthy choices. I know what to do and need to do it. I fall too easily off the wagon and find it exceedingly difficult to get back on, which means I have to try harder not to fall off.
Year in Review: I did ok, but want to do better. I continue to work out and eat well, but this seems to be a continuing battle for me.
Small Business - I’ve been registered as a small business for several years and have consistently done a few things each year under this DBA name. It’s time for me to ratchet that up, and actually put some effort behind being a cottage industry and an entrepreneur. I want to include my many vast interests and talents and believe I can do so successfully, if I just focus a bit more.
Year in Review: I did fairly well here including selling my first freelance article and seeing it published in 2009 with more to come in 2010.
Self-sufficiency – I don’t believe in total self-sufficiency, but I do want to work on increasing our self-sufficiency through greater food production and food preservation. Learning to make cheese would fall into this category.
Year in Review: We did pretty well here growing almost 900 pounds of food (next year will be better) and preserving lots. We’re halfway through the 6 month no grocery challenge and going strong. We are lacking in variety a bit but we aren’t complaining. We’ve run out of somethings and I know we’ll run out of onions soon enough, but we’ll make do.
“Wifely” Duties - I think any list of goals that doesn’t include being better partner/wife, trying harder, focusing more on our relationship and how better to make us closer would be severely lacking.
Year in Review: I think I did well enough here and I know Jeff is happy.
Community Building – I want to work on creating a better community network, locally and virtually. Admittedly, I’m not sure where to go here, but I’m a work in progress. I’ll include volunteer work here, as well.
Year in Review: I’m not sure how to judge my success or failure here, let’s just say I always have lofty goals and I don’t think I accomplish as much as I’d like.
Spirituality- I’d very much like to find a church home. I believe in a Saturday Sabbath and that makes my pickings rather slim in our small town. I have two options really, one is a Seventh Day Adventist church, which Jeff isn’t terribly fond of, the other is a 7thDay Baptist fellowship 20 miles away. I’m not keen on driving 20 miles one way for church, but plan on checking it out. I’ve seen some mentions locally about a Messianic congregation and am going to try and find out more info on them as well. Though I believe they’re in another town, again 20 miles away. I’m wondering if I should keep a Saturday Sabbath and worship on Sunday at a local church… oy I need to pray about this more. This will also include spiritual study, retreats, lectures, etc.
Year in Review: I still haven’t found a church home, but I am surrounded by amazing, spiritual people who help me grow in this area along with my own readings and studies.
Education - One should never stop learning, right?
Year in Review: I did well here. I took a great class and read a ton of good books not to mention blogs and other web sites.
Three R’s- Reducing waste, frivolous spending, waste, etc. Reusing everything possible. Recycling the rest.
Year in Review: I did well here too, though I think there’s always room for improvement.
How about you? If you made goals, how’d you do?
Happy Last Day of 2009, Kathie!
I’ve had a few things mulling around in my mind…going put pen to paper later today to firm up the resolve.
One of these is to maintain my blog! (or eliminate it..)
All-in-all 2009 was a pretty good year – “having to” retire was a bonus!
Working on my goals for the new year..looking for my sheet from last year..:o) I don’t think I did too bad, but I’ll find the paper and come back here later..
I just checked back to what I wrote in Dec 2008. Those photos are still taunting me from the closet…
These are wonderful goals Kathie! I wish you all the best in the year to come!