To have them in one easily accessible place so I can easily check back to remind myself, here they are:
2012 Goals and Resolutions
Health
- Eat breakfast every day
- Eat something for lunch every day
- Meal plan so I have a variety of dinners to choose from, and include more vegetables and rice and lean meat and less pasta
- Take my vitamins every day
- Drink more water
- Floss 4 times per week minimum
- Do workout tape at least once a week, with handweights
- During the winter, go to the mall once a week and walk
- During warm weather, go for a walk 2-3 times per week
- Go to the dentist
- Get glasses
House
- Hang frames on walls
- Order canvases
- Buy initial letters
- Make or find a small chalkboard
- Buy a filing cabinet and organize all my files and all random papers in the office
- Pick paint colors and paint downstairs and second room upstairs
- Vacuum once a week
- Buy or make a big bulletin board for office
- Buy a cheap bookshelf
- Plant flowers and plants out front in the spring and summer, make the front look prettier
- Find and hang curtains
- Do dishes every night so kitchen is clean in the morning
- Put away Elsa’s toys and straighten living room every night
- Make bed every day
Home/Personal
- Meal plan every week, make strict shopping list based on it
- Budget weekly amounts for food and personal items, learn how to do this and be much smarter with spending
- Keep my office clean and organized
- Find some new good, healthy recipes for dinner, that are also very budget-conscious for now
- Wake up before Elsa at least twice a week
- Read one book per month for pleasure
- Take Elsa to at least 2-3 fun things per week (community center playtime, play dates, park, mall, etc.)
- Respond to emails within two days
- Get a planner and plan in advance when I will clean, when I will shop, and other various things
- EVERY Monday is a fresh start, a new blank slate, a new chance to be better and work towards the person I want to be
- Get things done NOW. Stop putting things off. Stop procrastinating. Do something before lazy time. Get off the couch.
Business
- Make website
- Update and change blog
- Make postcards to leave with businesses
- Print business cards and dvds
- Make new contract
- Make business plan
- Set aside all tax money right away, including 15-20% for income taxes
- Be much much much much more organized
- Say no to what I don’t want to do
Relationships
- Call my parents once a week at least
- Skype with G&P once a month at least
- Call my grandpa and grandma once a month
- Have a date night with husband once a week – nothing elaborate or special, but could include (with Elsa) going for a long walk, checking out new parks, going to the mall, going to dinner, or (without Elsa) renting a movie, playing a game – just so we have something different from just sitting on the couch doing nothing
- Respond to my friends’ emails right away instead of waiting and forgetting
- Get together with my friends every week or two weeks at most