2020 was a hell of a year, high highs and insanely low lows. I started this year having finished my Bachelor’s degree, having amazing interviews for jobs in DC, in the best shape of my life, and with some seriously high goals for the year. By June, I had spent 4 months away from my SO, had an amazing job of a lifetime offer rescinded, and was entirely unemployed. And then by the end of the year, I had moved into a house with my SO, I’ve launched a small business, really enjoying my blog, and am doing pretty okay financially.
I’m pretty sure I got annoyed earlier this year and deleted all my 2020 goals (which like, fair). So I can’t actually go over last year’s goals. But I can set some new ones for this year! I like to set a lot of goals, but I think I kept them all pretty reasonable. Most of them are a specific, measurable thing, and some are more vague, and vague on purpose. I keep some goals very general because I don’t want to commit to something too massive and regret it, and it lets me determine what “enough” was at the end of the year.
This year I broke my goals into a couple of categories, Personal Finance, Health, Work, Home, and Personal. Finance is definitely the most important one to me. At the end of December, I established my own business and officially started working for myself after a year of job applications and a lot of unemployment during COVID. I’m really excited about the new branding and website to be launching before the end of this month. But I’m putting in a lot of work to make sure that I’m making enough money this year to build up my savings, plan for the long term, and start addressing my student loans.
Personal Finance
- Earn $5,000 per month
- Earn $1,000 this year from Moira The Explorer
- Pay off one Stafford Loan
- Save $1,000 for a new car
- Open a retirement account (this one is definitely a stretch goal!)
Health
- Incorporate more vegetarian/vegan meals
- Workout 3 times a week
- Get back into running
Work
- Launch my new website
- Launch an influencer marketing newsletter
- Launch a podcast
- Write regularly (for Explorer Media, Moira The Explorer, and more!)
Home
- Paint the bedroom
- Get home gym/workout corner set up
- Finish Gus’s cage
Personal
- Sew more
- Read more books
- Volunteer more often and do more in my community
- Eat breakfast more
- Cook more new recipes (and really just learn to cook better!)
- Get back to the barn
- Do more physical and mental self-care
- Get up earlier, giving myself enough time to enjoy my mornings!
Like I said, a lot of goals this year, but I tried to keep them all pretty attainable. I want to keep on track with these, so part of my accountability will be checking in with myself and you every couple of months to update progress on my goals. Keep an eye out for those posts, and let me know your progress along the way too! What are your goals for this year? Do we have any similar ones?
