2019 Goals Recap & 2020 Intentions

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A little over a year ago I cracked open my 2019 PowerSheets for the first time and put pen to paper on goals for the year. I had many thoughts in mind, but following the goalsetting flow, I selected a few specific goals to focus in on. Those goals were:

  • Read 52 books in 52 weeks

  • Pay off $144,000 in debt (my total debt balance as of Jan 1, 2019)

  • Decrease my usage of / dependence on technology

  • Increase my general gym attendance

  • Complete a no-spend year (or low-spend year, considering I allotted myself “spending money”)

  • Increase my water consumption

  • Double down on my minimalism focus by decluttering any last items that I don’t need

I also set three very strong intentions for relationships and social media use. Over the course of 2019, I posted monthly roundups on Instagram talking about all that was going on and what progress was looking like. I didn’t really have a “word of the year” but I think the absence of one core word allowed me to evolve and grow in all the ways I did last year.

The end result was far crazier than I could have imagined. I set REALLY ambitious goals for 2019. The reality is that I didn’t achieve all of them. But when I look back at 2019, I am truly in awe at what I did accomplish

  • I paid off $101,376.27 in debt. Yes, SIX FIGURES of debt paid off last year.

  • I read 63 books (or an average of five books per month) across so many genres.

  • I did a no spend year (with my strict “variable expenses” budget) that significantly cut down on impulse spending.

  • I almost entirely cut soda out of my diet. (Not an original goal but a great accomplishment!)

  • I decluttered so many belongings (even though I entered 2019 already a minimalist).

  • I obtained a positive net worth for the first time in my life. (Also not an original goal but a great accomplishment!)

  • I raised my credit score by 162 points. (Also not an original goal but a great accomplishment!)

WHO CARES that I didn’t achieve all of my goals?!?! What I did achieve is INSANE. I am so proud and motivated by what happened in 2019.

Moving into 2020, I have another round of ambitious goals and purposeful intentions. I am carrying over my three very strong intentions for relationships and social media use from last year and some of the goals are either carry overs or build upons. But either way I am excited to see how 2020 shapes up!

  • Finish what I started - knock out my remaining $48,000 of debt.

  • Be honest with myself and the world about my relationship with alcohol.

  • Deepen my minimalist streak into a habit/intention versus a reactive solution.

  • Get healthy. Actually fucking healthy. Lose some weight, treat my body better, heal (or better manage) the early onset arthritis that I should not have at my age, and so on.

  • Be a better caretaker - of my intentionally curated friend group, of the romantic partner that I now live with, of my knowledge of the politics that make our world go ‘round, of this Earth that I love to voyage across so often.

  • Read a diverse array of books by completing the “read harder” challenge notebook.

  • Transition my business fully from its current iteration to its future state (and I oop - this one is vague on purpose so as to not reveal the secrets, but there are big changes coming around here!)

Just like last year, I’ll be posting monthly roundups on Instagram talking about what progress looks like for 2020. I hope you’ll follow along with me! Let me know in the comments below what your 2020 goals are, how I can cheer you on, and whether or not you’ll be doing Instagram accountability with me.

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