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).

Get a job in France.

Speak fluent French. Currently at intermediate level, enough to do a McJob if I get one.

Start a blog.

I like the idea of a three year time horizon. Any less is too little for ambitious projects, any more and your plans get overtaken by events.

Finish writing the book of my life for my grandchildren
I don’t have many decades left
So had better get cracking

Tell my friend how I feel about him

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@Ambrose2.. very true. I have it all to come and with one DC it will be hard as he's my only and i'm totally besotted! He's only 6 though so a few years away yet. Good luck x

Build our business successfully
Pay off mortgage (rather tied in with the above!)
Still be running regularly & maintain my hard-won fitness

Actually, I realise that a lot of what I want is to keep going on my current track - which must mean that I am / family are doing pretty well right now.

I pray that we have strength to weather whatever 'events' befall us in the next decade.

Buy house
Qualify as therapist
Get married

Prepare my dd1 ASD to live independently.
Be debt and mortgage free.
To live in an independent Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Lose some weight

Do a bit of gardening every day to get on top of it

Learn a new bellringing method

Try to get a handle on my anxiety about my husband's cancer because worrying doesn't cure it, and the anxiety is impacting on my health

I think that'll do

Meet partner and have a family (and I turn 40 next year). I think that's got to be the biggest one for me. Everything else is window dressing!

FFS what happened to my spacing??

1. Become a mother
2. Travel the world with my family
3. Qualify as a life coach

Get enough money to buy my own house and have another child and get a dog (I followed 50% of the thread rules)

Lose 3 stone
Learn to play piano
Make my own clothes
Visit China, Hawaii and Australia/ New Zealand

Lose 1.5 stone and improve my relationship with food/bulimia.
Make exercise a part of my life.
Take up a hobby, writing in particular. I was good at it when younger.
Work on letting things go, not get angry or upset at how various things have gone wrong in my life.
Try to kill the unkind people in my life with kindness rather than rage.
Find someone who 'gets' me.
Find a partner (after the weight loss!).

1. Lose 2 stone
2. Be submitted to promotion (to highest possible rank in my field)
3. Significantly increase savings
4. Improve hair and nails substantially (average at the mo)
5. Be physically fit

Spend more time with my children
Pay off mortgage
Get black belt in martial arts

Lose several stone, improve my piano, get really good at Italian, swim as much as possible, save money and not buy any clothes/beauty products etc until I fit into the ones I've got and have used everything up! Oh and finish my novel!

Oh and develop a healthy relationship with alcohol! I've got my work cut out for me!

Meet the love of my life and have children.

Other than that I hope for happiness, good health and some bloody good fun!

Other goals: dance again, foster kittens, go to Hawaii, Morocco and Thailand.

And some surprises along the way

Conquer my fear of flying ( haven't been on a plane for 15 years) and take my kids abroad for the first time.

Learn to drive.

Grow a back bone and leave my emotionally absuive husband.

I've always wanted to learn to play the flute.

1.Make a decision about my marriage rather than aimlessly struggle on, feeling like I'm missing out on proper love and affection (I know I am but fear of the unknown and fear of hurting others is holding me back)
2.Run a marathon in the next 3 years
3.Start my business
4.finish work on our house so it's ready to either live in or sell..
5.Grow two happy humans who have a good view of healthy relationships and don't grow up thinking mum have to do it all and work full time or that dad's are silent and just go out to work and marriage is about just Co existing with little affection... (see point 1 above 😬)

Get married.
Have two children.
Complete Candy Crush.

If we are sticking to three, I am going to try my best to:

• buy my own first home.
• have a baby
• get a professorship (this is unlikely!).

If we're having more than three, I'll include the more practical goals:

• get a permanent job
• write my second and third books
• publish some creative writing.

Have baby no3.

Get married.

Be debt free.

Stop unnecessary spending.

Save for a deposit.

Buy a house.

Persuade DP to get another cat (or two).

Get on a plane for the first time in 10 years.

Read more.

Stop yo-yo dieting.

Sell my house.
Leave my job.
Move to Leeds .

My 3 things are

Pay off the mortgage (c.9 years away)

Improve my career somehow/stop hating so much of my job

Get a cleaner. I have always wanted one, never been able to justify the cost but I am so sick of the house needing cleaning.