My Personal Goals for 2019

As you know, I set, go public on and report my personal goals progress annually.  This is an exercise I have been doing since 2015 and as a result I have seen a significant improvement in my achievements and in the areas of my life where I choose to focus.  You can click these links to read My 2018 Goals and my monthly progress updates for 2018 if you want to know how things went last year 🙂 (it wasn’t plain sailing!).

As in previous years, I’ve used the Wheel of Life template to get a visual representation of where I am now.  This helps me prioritise the areas that need most attention or that I’m most drawn to, as trying to work on things that don’t interest me or serve no real purpose will see my motivation dwindle to nothing very quickly!

For those of you who are familiar with my 2018 goals, then you will see some common ground here.  Some goals, although progressed, weren’t completed last year, so I’ve picked them up again for further action in 2019.

I’ve also considered which goals are public and which ones will remain private, so even though you see a list of goals here, I also have a number of other goals that (for now, at least) will remain private.

So, with that said, let’s get going…!

My Personal Goals for 2019

The list below isn’t written in any particular order.

Goal	Deadline
Fun & Travel	31 December 2019
You may remember from my 2016 blog Making Planning Fun, that we had challenged ourselves to fill a sealed jar with places (in the UK) we’d like to visit in 2017.  This turned into such a fun way to plan our travel, that it’s now become an annual tradition!  We’ve since upgraded the jar to an ornamental owl – known as The Travel Owl!  which was emptied of all its little bits of paper on New Year’s Eve.  These are now our travel goals for 2019:
Long Weekends/Overnight Trips – UK
Knaresborough, Yorkshire
London & Show
Stratford Upon Avon
Long Weekends – Mainland Europe
Venice
Rome
Main Trip
Family holiday to Spain
Health and Fitness
To recover lost ground 🙁 and get my weight back on track.  My goal is to be 9 1/2 stone (133lbs)	30 June 2019
To join and then regularly attend a Yoga class.	30 April 2019
Achieve Your Best Life
Publish 1 blog per week.	Reg & Ongoing
To create and run one or more workshops (topic tbd)	30 September 2019
To increase total follower numbers across all media	31 December 2019
Complete overhaul of my website to include a new theme	31 March 2019
Personal Growth
Create a Vision Board in support of my goals	31 March 2019
Attend (in person or virtually) at least 1 course or seminar in support of my goals	31 December 2019
Read a minimum of 18 books	31 December 2019
Contribution (Environmental)
To allocate part of the garden to successfully grow veggies	30 September 2019
Home Environment
To re-decorate and furnish two rooms at home	30 September 2019
To continue and complete my garden makeover.	30 September 2019
Family & Friends
To continue to log meet-ups and birthdays remembered (because I know I’ll slack on this if I don’t maintain focus!)	R & O

I love this goals list!  No doubt I’m going to be very busy, but it’s a good balance between work, fun and relaxation 🙂 .

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey

Whether we like it or not, time is passing and life is happening all around.  Without this kind of focus, the life that happens might not be what I want it to be (or even an approximation of it), but with focus, effort and application, I have at least a chance of achieving a life I want!

I’ll keep a running list of my progress updates here 🙂

March Progress Update
April Progress Update
May Progress Update
June Progress Update
July Progress Update
August Progress Update
September Progress Update
October Progress Update
November Progress Update
December Progress Update

So now it’s your turn.  Have you identified your goals for 2019?  Where do you want to go?  What do you want to do?  How much money do you want to earn?  Will you be changing your job?  The list of possibilities is endless, but simply because of this, it’s an extremely useful exercise to narrow down the choices and commit to the things that will make your year memorable for all the right reasons!  

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