Goals!!!

Life is about having goals! Well, not really, but some goals may be convenient to make some steps in life, especially when it comes to personal finance... So here is a list of all my intended goals on this blog. For better, for worse. And even failure can be a motivator :-) 

So somewhere halfway through 2020 I've decided to revisit my Goals page. Great moment if I might say! And I might because I guess I'm the admin for this page.

Anyhow. Here are the freshest goals you've ever seen. I hope I'll make it to a post for a status update somewhere at the beginning of 2021 :-)

GOALS FOR (the rest of) 2020 (and some for the rest of my life). Status is where I'm at here, halfway through 2020 whilst revisiting this Goals-thingy.

#0. Stay out of debt. Move slowly to financial freedom. ON TRACK.
#1. Get up at 7am. Meditate. Get rest. Don't fuck around with this anymore. PENDING.
#2. Move my body. ON TRACK.
#3. Declutter. There's always more to become less. PENDING.
#4. Find out what freedom truly means (to me). UNDER RESEARCH.
#5. Kill my student loan. ON TRACK.
#6. Be more conscious on food (or find out why I am not). UNDER RESEARCH.
#7. Be more social this year (or find out why I am not). UNDER RESEARCH.
#8. Find out how I want to live my life (or be unhappy forever). UNDER RESEARCH.

Here are some of my older goals... if you want to read about the transition from these older goals into the 2020 goals, see a post on goals somewhere mid 2020 :-)

As of the end of 2016 / beginning of 2017 my statements to myself are:

I really want a better night-and-day rhythm. Eventually getting up at 6am and going to bed nowhere later than 11pm, preferably earlier. Weekends included since they mess me up if I don't!

I really want to diverse my diet a little more, or at least being able to get all of the much appreciated nutrients into my system. I'm eating not so much meat nowadays, but my cooking it mostly easy and boring. I don't mind that at all, but I think there are recipes to provide me with simple, yet fully nutrient food. 

I really want to work out a bit more. Biking to work feels good, but I also want to build up a bit more body strength. I'm not a fanatic with the weight lifting, but I picked up a good set of weights this year and I should be able to get myself to hold on to some sort of schedule there.

I really want to be more social this year. Be there for my family. Be there for my friends. Even though it'll be some kind of experiment (I'm not expecting anything in return) I hope to be able to make a difference in my own life. Freeing my agenda might help there, too.

I really want to discover life a bit more. In which way, I don't know yet. But I do know I've been walking all kind of paths which where somewhat mine, yet not really authentically mine. I want to discover what feels good for me. To trust my gut and go with it and not being scared of what disasters may happen. I'm getting tired of that way of living and it's caused me enough troubles anyway.

I really want to declutter more and more. Rob Grienfield made it down to 111 items and no more money. I'm not Rob, but I sure as hell love the idea of not having to take a lot with me if I'm moving!

Here are some earlier made goals (somewhere 2015/2016-ish), some accomplished, at the beginning of 2017 some more or less still standing. 

Goal#1: Get up at 6:30 every workday morning, shower and meditate. 
Status: Hmm heavy. 5040% FAIL... Or is that a 60% PENDING?
Goal#2: Redeem myself from the financial neck chain called personal loan. 
Status: Going for it @ $ 500 /mo (update: gone with this end of '16!) GONE! FOREVER!
Goal#3: Get on my bike and take it for the ride to work at least 3 working days a week. Status: Love it! (but the weather is pretty good at the moment...) PENDING.
Goal #4: Post on a weekly basis. PENDING.
Status: 2016: Not so much. Struggling with regular content. PENDING.
Goal #5: Declutter. Sell stuff lying around for more than 6 months or give/throw it away. Status: SEMI-PRO and ever PENDING.
Goal #6: Stay focused on financial freedom. It's in my systems' CORE
Status: Discovering how I can stay focused. Other people? Books? Help...? PENDING.
Goal #7: Kill my student loan.  
Status: it's August '16 and it's just over € 1.000. With € 100/mo it'll be gone soon. Maybe I'll flatten it out too with my year's end bonus. Yet, interest is 0% right now and it's no registered debt in our country so I might be better off investing the money in stocks...
Updated Status: It's December '16 and it's just over € 800. Invest. I'm going to do obliged monthly payments only (€ 45/mo). With interest rates this low it's insane to kill this debt. My current Net Worth is positive and will stay that way. PARKED.