This new decade I will... a thread for big but attainable goals

[mumdom]

Run the London marathon. Currently a big fat couch potato who gets out of breath running for the bus, but I’ve lived near the route for two decades and it’s caught my imagination.

Write a book. Have never written anything longer than an essay, but have read a lot of books and thought, “I can do better.” Let’s see if I can.

Get new letters before or after my name (not including Mrs, although staying married is definitely at the top of my unwritten list).

What are your big goals for the new decade? (Let’s limit them to three year to encourage prioritisation and actually achieving them).

Hmmm...
Get DD through secondary school and uni (god, in 10 years time my DD would be a proper grown up!!!!!!!)

Pay off my mortgage.

Get to know and look after myself better :)

• Finally figure out what is wrong with my health and get my life back (it’s been over a decade so I’m not hopeful!)

• Help my twins learn to talk (not guaranteed but will do my best!)

• Learn to drive

Be fitter and healthier at 50 than I was at 30 (currently 46 and a half 😁)

Do at least 15 mins of yoga a day (as per above goal)

Change my career

Move to Scotland

Consume less (both in terms of food and in terms of 'stuff')

Go back to work, I have some training and a very part-time job lined up in the new year to help with this.

I've had places in the London Marathon through the ballot, go for OP! You won't regret it, it is a fantastic experience!

I want to get my degree.

Pay off a financial debt
Lose 2 stone
Run 5km (currently not a runner) and make the time to run regulalry each week after achieving this.
Sort out all the crap in the garage and sell it / take to charity shop or recycling centre
Sort out anxiety and stress issues, which I am hoping all of the above will help with.

Good luck to everyone in achieving your goals

Running based goal for me as well.

I think I want to run a marathon at some point, but my first goal is to enjoy running rather than just the feeling I get afterwards. I’m very new to it, but find every run a struggle.

I would like to continue my weight loss and enjoy healthy eating.

My biggest hope is that my elderly parents enjoy good health and are still with me for the next decade. Terrified of having to say goodbye to them.

Get a new job.

In the next ten years?

Save £75k minimum
Run 1000 miles minimum each year
Complete my Masters
Travel to five new countries
Pay mortgage off
Learn to recognise songs of British birds

Pay off mortgage and retire from current job
Retrain as a Neil’s Yard therapist and a yoga teacher
Obtain an SS score on expert mode in Beat Sabre

Gain control of my 20 year battle with anxiety, depression and IBS so I can live a fulfilled life and meaningful.
See the Northern Lights
Trace my family tree
Learn to play the ukulele
Get on a plane (I have a massive fear of flying)
Practise yoga every day

Pay off debt
Get married
Try for baby 2
Complete masters
Lose 3 stone (and keep them off!!!)

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1. Lose 15 Stone (not a typo, you read it right)

1. Clear all debt minus mortgage

1. Get a puppy

1. Find a partner

1. Have a baby

1. Visit America

1. Continue to kick anxiety's arse!

1. Double my salary

Quite a few there but a decade is a long time!

Finish my personal project

Get to a manageable weight and stay there

Try and more effectively manage very difficult relations with my mother and sisters

Start Reading again

Learn to watercolour to an extent I can frame a picture of our house. I work in a 'creative' industry but come home and sit on my phone / Netflix and determined to put energy into something better!

1. Move somewhere sunny like Portugal.

1. Grow my business by a lot.

1. Walk or yoga or Exercise every day.

Oh that's more 2020, so next decade. I would like to get my MA, definitely a house, and a long term relationship

Lottery win and miracle baby aside.

Learn how to drive
Lose eight stone
Join a gym and go to the gym
Knit a blanket
Learn BSL and French or Russian
Finish my degree

Tell my friend how I feel about him

Get a first class honours degree in computer science (currently first year)

Get a masters in cyber security

Get a good job that pays salary (£25k +) rather than minimum wage.

Buy a house - Not sure this last one will be attainable but I will keep trying.

That only takes me to 2021 but I don't want to think too far into the future because anything further is terrifyingly large to think about.

I'd like to finish the book I'm writing for my mother, save for a mortgage, save generally, get married, have a baby and get a good graduate job and a pet.

Which are all rather large goals.

My kids will be teens and tweens by then so my aims are to do all that I can to raise them to be good, happy healthy people and to be the best, happiest and healthiest I can be because I want them to have a good role model, and to never have to worry that I wouldn't cope or be happy without them. I want them to leave home knowing that I have my own life. As a single parent it can be easy to put everything into your kids at the detriment of yourself but then you end up with major empty nest syndrome. I don't want to be in that position. So it's about building me and them.

Get married, buy a house, get promoted, lose 2 stone and run a marathon. All achievable with focus 😁

Recover from anorexia
Use my driving licence
Get a job
Go back to India with husband and son

Relearn French

Lose about 3.5 stones

Bed down and get into my new job

Get on top of my house - the repairs and maintenance jobs are piling up.

Save money - I have a goal of £20,000, but every time I start, the house rears its ugly head. This time it's the guttering.

Clear debt
Learn Spanish
Get my degree and new job in new career