This is question #3 of the Year End Countdown Challenge held in Dec 2012, where we count down to the new year with 13 reflective questions. The challenge is now over but you can do the tasks in your own time. Visit the overview page for all the challenge tasks.
Welcome to Day 11 of the 2013 Countdown Challenge! :D Two more days before the countdown challenge comes to an end!
2013 Countdown, Question #3…
Questions for the 13-day, 13-question countdown so far:
- #13: How has your year of 2012 been? | 191 Comments | Post Your Response
- #12: What are 12 things you love about year 2012? | 129 Comments | Post Your Response
- #11: What were your lowest points this year? Why? | 140 Comments | Post Your Response
- #10: What lessons have you learned from those low points? | 92 Comments | Post Your Response
- #9: What could you have done better this year? (Be honest with yourself) | 74 Comments | Post Your Response
- #8: What can you do to ensure you don’t repeat the same behaviors in 2013? | 62 Comments | Post Your Response
- #7: What are you most grateful for in 2012? | 64 Comments | Post Your Response
- #6: What are your biggest accomplishments this year? | 48 Comments | Post Your Response
- #5: What lessons have you gained in 2012? | 46 Comments | Post Your Response
- #4: What are your biggest goals for 2013? | 4 Comments | Post Your Response
Today’s question, question #3, is:
How do you plan to realize those goals (from #4)?
Your Task
- Reflect and answer today’s question. There’s no word limit – whether minimum or maximum. Write as few or as many words as you want. It’s all up to what you want to express!
- Share your answer. After you are done writing, copy and paste your answer in the comments area and post it there.
- Check out other participants’ answers. Other participants will be sharing their answers too, so feel free to read and reply to their answers.
Look forward to reading your answers! :)
(After you are done, proceed to #2: What are you going to do to make 2013 your best year ever?)
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So excited for 2013!
1) Live in the present more. Stop stressing about the future and enjoy the ride, while still being aware of what I want and working towards that
– I’m so much more aware of what makes me happy – socialising, reading, exercise, good food, improvement, study, hot showers (haha), travel, theatre, dancing, beauty. I’m going to focus more on those things and the rest will come
– I’m still figuring our my solid goals and who I am, but I know I’m moving in the right direction.
2) Practice personal growth
– think more, analysise more, read more personal growth articles
– be a better person and friend to everyone around (and far away from) me
3) Meet more like-minded people, get more hobbies, enjoy life more
– Start Spanish classes and salsa classes
– perhaps get back into drama
4) Improve my Spanish a lot more. Take Spanish classes (will also help with 3). Go back to a Spanish speaking country by the end of 2013
– Take aformentioned Spanish classes and also continue studying Spanish/watching youtube videos in Spanish for half an hour every morning
5) Save 5000pounds by the end of the year (at least) to put towards a nest egg :)
– Well first I need a new job!
– Expense = salary – savings!
– Continue tracking my expenses if they seem to be gettng out of hand and be strict with myself
– See 7
6) Exercise every day, even if it’s just walking the dog!
– I’m joining the gym today!
– Encourage my family to be more keen on exercising so we can exercise together
7) Start an online business with the intention of generating passive income.
– This is a work in progress!
8) Become the person I want to be :)
– If I do all these things I’m well on my way!
– but I also need to improve my personality and attitudes and self-limiting beliefs a lot
9) Feel completely okay by myself and only then think about starting a new relationship
– See above
10) Spend more time with my family
– Pester parents to invite over or visit relatives frequently
– Help my parents more around the house, so they are calmer and less busy so we can spend more time together.
11) Learn to cook
– Watch and learn from my parents in the kitchen
– Ask people who are good cooks to teach me
– Maybeee take cooking classes
– Implement “meat-free” Mondays in my house and learn to cook awesome veggie food
– To build a long-term relationship
Well first I need to meet someone, so I am pursing online dating as well as doing more offline group activities
– To be more open in my communication
I will be sharing more over facebook and am practicing to improve my speaking ability
– Eating more vegetables
I am setting targets for my diet and recording what I eat daily to monitor my progress
– Keep reading and learning
I set a goal of reading 50 books this year.
– Travel somewhere new
This will be my yearly vacation :)
The 1 yr 3 yr 5 yr 10 yr principle
I plan on realizing these goals because I won’t be the same person that I was previous years which will reflect in all I do and how I do it.
2013 is the year of moving forward
happy new year 2013
To reach my goals, I plan on starting small. No more than three habit change attempts at a time (and only then, if they’re relatively related. For example, I might journal and keep a gratitude journal at the same time because it’s so easy to do at the same time.
I’m going to write out a list of everything I can think of that I either want to learn or make a habit of, and see which are the most important for me to start with. For example, I think I will begin with my previous example and make it a habit each day to journal about my thoughts and feelings for each day, as well as keep a gratitude journal to remember to stay positive on a daily basis. I’m gonna aim to try and incorporate a new habit into my life at least every 21 days, and perhaps each week if I feel I can handle it that often.
I think the biggest thing I can do to help me realize these goals is to first set them, and second, record my progress, say, weekly. I think having nothing to really look to as a reminder, or to see how far I’ve come, may be part of why I lose motivation. Yet, I know it has to take a very small amount of time for these recordings, or else I may be prone to not recording them at all!
In order to have time for the extra things I want to do, I know I’ll need to cut back on a lot of the ways I waste time, such as repeatedly browsing the same sites over and over again despite getting very little from them.
I think as long as I work on my procrastination and commitment issues, the rest should begin falling into place more steadily. So working on those two are naturally a priority as the new year comes!
My plan for realizing these goals is to continue to work on building myself into being a proper person. I want to train myself to not allow too many distractions into my daily life. I want to budget my time better, which will in turn help me budget other things such as money and food. I most importantly need to get from behind the keyboard and out in public with the other humans. This society now days is very technology based and we do everything online. The art of actual conversation is lost and that is something I want back. Just today I took time to catch up with someone over lunch. We spent two hours basically talking, which is more than I think we ever did in our lives. It is that type of experience that I need more of, and that is how I will recognize my goals by having those experiences.
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