2019 Goals and Dreams

For the past two years, I've used this planner which was a lot of fun but doesn't change from year to year. So I've decided to do the best part of it right here. Bonus points. It creates no paper waste.

The goal is to write down 100 goals for the year ahead. Some of them are realistic and will easily be crossed out. Some of them aren't realistic, but I believe words are powerful.

As a writer, words always seemed magical, but my brain is a large part logical and I think I always tried to talk myself out of this.

The first year I used this planner I wrote that I would like to buy a piece of investment property. I didn't really think we would. Or I thought we might, but it was going to take seriously increasing my income which mean someone would either have to pay me for my writing--FINALLY--or I needed a much better job. 

Neither of those things happened, but we received a small amount of money (larger than a couple of hundred but not a enough to even make a dent in my student loan). And my husband stumbled across a piece of rural land priced very low. 

This piece of land didn't work out and wasn't ideal. But it did make us realize that there had to be similar pieces of land. On Halloween day 2017, we signed the title for our (hopefully) first piece of investment property.

So, 2018 came around and I wrote taking my daughter to Disney as a goal. I didn't expect it to happen. I'm trying to Dave Ramsay my budget like hell right now, and have been for a while. But I thought why not? You never know. For basically the first time ever we got a nice tax refund and went to Disney World. It's my favorite family trip ever.
With that being said, some of these will easily be crossed off. Some of these won't and some will be gifts from God and the universe.

1. Lose 25 lbs.
2. Lose 50 lbs.
3. Develop a healthy mindset
4. Lose 75 lbs.
5. Lose 100 lbs.
6. Have no sagging skisI know dream big, right? 
7. Learn yoga
8. Find friends to dance with
9. minimize sugar
10. eliminate coke-cola
11. wash my face 2x/day. Okay, so it's a little embarrassing to admit this on a blog, but my self care is like non-existent
12. Take a word formatting class
13. finish another book (can be novella)
14. sell a book
15. Make $500 writing
16. Find a career I love that contributes to society
17. Create a passive income stream
18. pay off van
19. pay off husband's truck
20. Go back to Disney
21. Go to Dublin
22. Go to Edinburg
23. Go to Cancun
24. Go to London
25. Go to Rome
26. Go to Madrid
27. See the Rockettes on New Year's Eve
28. Volunteer at least once a month
29. Find a local activist group
30. Build my community
31. organize the master bath
32. organize my closet
33. organize my bedroom
34. organize office
35. Organize kitchen
36. organize elf's room
37. organize garage
38. Lose no loved ones--I realize I have no control over this, but words have power so...
39. Go to Hawaii
40. Read affirmations daily
41. End 2019 with a thriving family
42. Pay off student loans
43. Pay off house
44. Donate $1000
45. take ballroom dance lessons
46. take a trip just me and the ELF--good luck talking Emil into this one. LOL
47. Take the Emils to AR
48. Pay cash for a couch
49. Pay off phone
50. Top Secret
51. Top Secret .2
52.  Outline a self help book or workbook
53. Write a financial planning book aimed at youngish women
54. start an initiative to minimize traffic accidents in the US
55. Give a TED talk
56. Finish reading The Extreme Art of Self Care
57. Read Get Rich Lucky Bitch
58. Find another book by Denise Thomas
59. Use eating zones
60. Take a mindful eating course
61. Get a door for the master bathroom
62. Go to Australia
63. Become a USAT bestseller
64. Become a NYT bestseller
65. Keep ELF in an IB school
66. Read a parenting book on discipline
67. spend more time with my Emils
68. I honestly can't believe there are 31 things left to do in the world.
69. Make $4000 w/ gigs this year
70. Read Traffic
71. Take an HTML class
72. Sign up to sub 
73. form a morning yoga/meditation habit
74. take a technical writing class
75. apply to stitch fix
76. Check my blog analytics
77. Check my blog settings
78. read an add organization book
79. investigate the benefits of creating an online guide
80. Research inbox $$
81. Research Swag bucks
82. Create a dream board
83. Quit venting!
84. Use a moisturizer
85. Give myself a bedtime
86. Go to a belly dance class
87. Remember to use the "suckies" list
88. Have lunch with a friend I don't often see once a month.
89. start a journaling project with the ELF
90. Take an Irish dance class
91. Let go of worry
92. Finish craft a life you love
93. Be content with what I have.
94. Make a weekly goal list 
95. Reward myself for accomplishing goals
96. Get Kavitha, Katie, and Ruth together for a girl's night
97. Send ELF to dance camp
98. Send ELF to art camp
99. Query or package "All I Want For Christmas"
100. revise and query women's world shorts from 2017.