Goals for 2011

I was planning on making a post about my resolutions for 2011, but Pamela gave me the idea of doing monthly resolutions since they are more likely to be achieved. I think monthly goals are a much better idea since you have less time to do them in and will hence forth know in 30 days if you have completed your goal or not, that way you don’t need to wait 365 days to know whether or not you succeeded or failed in that regard. Unfortunately I don’t really have any goals that could be achieved before January is up, besides cleaning out the closet, and even that may have to wait until I can get the finances together for boxes and a free weekend where we aren’t doing anything. My other main goal for January is to take every weekend off from doing work. So far I have been able to get enough done during the week to do that for this first weekend, I also was able to do it last weekend with being away. I don’t consider working on my own projects and task list working, but if a project does come my way I can’t say that I won’t be working on it on the weekends if it is good money and I don’t have time during the week.

Here are my longterm goals for 2011:

• Take my debt from $5708.36 down to $4500.00
• Get our combined debt down to $10,000
• Pay off our bed before the interest kicks in
• Pay off at least one credit card
• Get $500 of usable funds onto one credit card
• Move into our own place
• Lose 30 pounds
• Declutter our room
• Get my car fixed or be able to get a new(er) one
• Take more pictures
• Take more videos
• Watch more movies
• Play more video games (I know this may seem weird, but sometimes you need to do more of what you love and be able to relax more)

Since I mentioned my personal projects earlier in the post, here are some things that I want to achieve with this site:

• Gain a better rapport with other bloggers, I have been commenting on some blogs in the last few days and I hope that it will lead to a somewhat mutually beneficial thing, even if that just means we comment back and forth.
• Get some other writers for reviews and articles
• Pull in some more social aspects to the site that would make people want to be members and participate in the forums and such.
• Compile my own version of PHP

I think most of these are possible, though it takes determination to achieve. I do have somewhat of a plan to get these done, it just depends on whether or not I can stick to it and get it done.