This year, like every other, I set goals instead of resolutions.
I’m sharing them here for increase accountability, and so that I can look back in a year from now to share what I have or haven’t accomplished.
If all goes well, I’ll make this an annual tradition!
- Buy a house – Go big or go home, right? This could be a rental property or something for my partner and I to live in. Either way, I’m ready to be a property owner!
- Hit a 65% savings rate – I saved 39% of my take home pay last year. Though I have lots of travel planned for the upcoming year already, I have since gotten a raise and my partner is more on board with saving. I think I can do it!
- Make plans to move – if you read About Me, you’ll know I’m trying to ditch city life. Actually moving within the next year probably isn’t realistic, but by the end of 2020 I’d like to at least know where my partner and I plan to move to.
- Read 10 books – I used to tell friends (half jokingly) when they recommended a book, “oh no, I don’t read.” That changed in 2019 when I read 13 books over the course of the year. A record for me. This website now takes up a lot of my reading time which I’m happy about, but I don’t want to get out of the reading habit. I’ve learned so much!
- Make $100 in a month from this website – I’m having the best time learning how to build this website and I wouldn’t give that up for anything, but it’d be fun to make a little money off of it to cover the expenses.
- Find 10 new vegetarian staple recipes – We have a handful of go-to meals in our house, but with so few, we tire of them easily. We’ve also been eating more vegetarian and having staple veggie meals will help encourage more of that!
- Become a WordPress whiz – Okay. A little less measurable but this has been my favorite part of starting a blog. Though I’m still very much learning the ropes of WordPress, I’m loving it and think this a skill that will do me well in life.
That’s it!
If I can close out 2020 with these things accomplished, I’ll feel dang good about another year spent on earth!