How will you improve your life in 2020?

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With a new year almost upon us, how do you plan to make positive improvements to your life in 2020?

My goals are:

1. Get out of debt: DH and I are about £4.5K in debt and I’m hoping that 2020 will be the year we finally manage to clear this. I’m not sure whether it’s achievable but I really hope we do it. It will give us a significantly better lifestyle if we can and will be a huge weight off my shoulders.

2. Keep my home “visitor ready” at all times: I’m so sick of people asking to pop round and having to spend an age desperately cleaning and tidying in order to make it presentable. I’ve been on an organising and cleaning mission in the run-up to Christmas, and the main rooms are looking decent for the first time in ages. I need to make sure it stays that way all year.

3. Tick off all the annoying tasks on my to do list: including selling or giving away old stuff I never use, and sorting some tricky DIY jobs around the house that have been hanging round for ages.

4. Be more productive at work: I’ve been feeling really lethargic and demotivated over the last couple of months and it has been affecting my work. I really need to change this attitude and make sure I stay on top of things in the new year.

What are yours?

To keep going to therapy.

I have a new job!
I’m gonna be awesome at this new job, I’m going to get promoted and then rule the world...(of my new job place)
I’m going to remember that life is fucking short and can change on a speck of dust ...live it a bit more.

I’m still going to be fat on account of my love of food, that’s fine, I’m still going to be old, on account of the natural ageing process, I’m still going to be grumpy on account of annoying people but again that’s ok.
Cracking on...

1. Get out of the town we live in.
2. go back to eating mostly vegan and wheat free, I feel so much better for that diet!
3. do yoga every other day, another thing that makes me feel really good.
4. sort out our debt and actually stick to the budget. I'm going to start carrying around cash to stop myself spending on my card so much.

Quit work! I can't wait!!

I’m going to sort out my pension plan!

Starting a new job in the new year have been out of work for a good while now. It’s part time but it’s a start.
Get money organised. Don’t owe anyone anything but I’m in the bones of my arse every month. Job will help with this.
Read more good books.

Setup my business to hopefully go fully self employed and buy a boat.

I will be having a new baby so there's that.

Once she is born, all being well I would like to make better use of my maternity leave and learn to run. DH now works shifts instead of 9-5s so is at home more during the day. I took too long to address my weight last mat leave and i'm fucking fed up with it now.

By retiring.

Nobody at work knows yet and probably won't care anyway

Reduce the amount of red meat I eat.

Lose weight. I lost 2 stone in the last year, I need to lose about another 2.

I'm planning to come off nights, 4 years and 4 plus stone later I'm fat and knackered!!!
Back onto days for me and hopefully with that some weight loss and a less tired, happier and healthier me .

Keep loosing weight 1st down at least another 1 to go.

Do more for me

I'm getting married on Easter Saturday second time round after 10 years of being divorced and I'm very very very happy at last

Continue with the health changes I made in July
100 per cent no gluten
100 per cent no dairy
Big cut back on sugar

All to play for.

DS gets his free 15 hours of nursery in Dec 2020, so by next Christmas I’ll have two hours to myself every morning! Most of the year will be gone but I hope to be able to go to the gym and maybe look into starting a little business.

100 per cent no gluten
I haven’t eaten gluten since 2002. I’m still fat as fuck! It isn’t a healthy (or cheap) thing to do.

Be more organised! My son started school in sept and I'm really struggling with keeping on top of everything so I've ordered a diary to try nd sort my life out

De clutter!!!! I am so sick of the amount of shit we have!!!!
And stop buying crap we don't need!!!

Also more self care!

I think I’m going to go back on antidepressants at least for a few months. And keep going with therapy too, that’s helping but I suspect I need meds to really start to get better.

Find a fucking good lawyer!

Start looking after myself more, sahm to two nursery age children and I'm at the bottom of the list

So I'm going to start SlimmingWorld, one to lose weight and have something to actually go to in the evening

Do couch to 5k

Little- December seems a strange time to get funding- it usually starts the term after they’re 3? Unles you meant September?

Same as every year for me: be more organised and declutter. I’ve also just suggested to do that we try and be debt free by this time next year (overdrafts- about £5k)

To be a brilliant mam to my first baby due may 2020 and really let it be the making of me, which I feel confident i will.

To not worry so much about work, and look after myself instead of pushing harder at work. Ive realised its not worth your mental health, and it only pays the bills, so not worth getting stressed, anxious or worked up over.

To genuinely live a happier balance lifestyle that’ll promote wellbeing, health and and general positivity for me my friends and family. To live life a little and have an ‘it is what it is’ approach to any negatives and move past them.

I'm starting a new job and we will finally have a decent joint income

Look after my self more - nails, lashes etc

More date nights and time alone with dh

Keep up gym routine and get fitter

I'm excited!

Start working on my portfolio (currently doing a CS degree with OU).

Spend more time studying and less procrastinating.

Try to keep my house tidy.

Try and be a little more patient.

Practise some serious self care both for my mental and physical health.

@BrutusMcDogface the nursery my dd2 attended took the children from the moment they turned 3 rather than the term after they turned 3 (the nursery didn't get he funding until the term after they turned 3). So it is possible that Little reindeer child could start in the December.