Can we start a 2024 goals thread?

[HairdryerMary]

Here's mine

• graduate!
• go to a music festival with my kids
• pay off debt
• keep working towards reducing meat
• teach kids to swim proficiently
• reduce all of our screen time
• touch Hadrians Wall
• visit Edinburgh
• visit a country none of us have ever been to before (Greece? Austria? Poland?)
• stay single
• try to keep boundaries with kids dad

Build enough savings to secure a mortgage. One goal, but a massive one!

Goals for me
. Continue to lose weight
. Get competent with internet banking and apps on phone

Goals I'd like to help DD achieve
. Pass English and Maths Functional Skills
. Come of anti depressants
. Get a part time job and/or apprenticeship
. Start learning to drive

@TeenDivided if she's not sure about her spatial awareness skills, I'd recommend an automatic. It worked well for me

Oh definitely. We have an automatic for her with an extra brake pedal all ready for when she feels she has enough headspace to have a go. (She really needs to try as her area of work tends to be in the middle of nowhere.)

Yes great. I have these 3 but looking for more.

Apply for my masters

Improve my canva skills

Get BMI under 30.

@WelshNerd what is your masters going to be in?

Weight loss is definitely one for me but I think I'm not in the right mindset. I've only lost before when I've had the time and money before.

Learn to stream music - I am embarrassed by my inability!

Start strength training

Finish dental treatment that should have been done years ago

Building work to be finished and make my beautiful house a home.

I love threads like these.
Mine are to :
save money
join a running club
Volunteer, perhaps with smaritans.
Have a day out once a month with kids doing something fun.
Start 2nd year of my degree, had to it on hold due to recent separation with ex-dh

Continue weight training
Read more books

Government & Politics. The goal is to apply. Whether I'll actually be able to start is a different matter.

What are you currently studying OP?

Get down to overweight not obese (sorry, boring)

Run a 5 mile charity race in March

Apply for a job a band higher in my current team

Solar panels and battery at home

Begin open water swimming
Finish writing a book I have been commissioned to write ( side hustle). I have already written about 65k words.
Make cooking less of a boring chore somehow
Travel as much as I can afford to, to some
See as much theatre as I can and spend on experiences, not stuff
Spend as much time with DD and DS as I can ( young busy adults)
Spend more time with my mum
Guide DD to getting her first graduate job
Make new friends and keep older ones

Probably many more if I can think of

I'm happy with exercise and fitness goals - I tackled that around three years ago. I recently started to relearn playing the piano, so will plough on with that.

I hope my divorce will finally be finalised next year. I will try to hurry that though it's taking time.

@Lentilweaver yep I'm adding writing to mine. I've got four scripts on the go. What's your book about?
@WelshNerd social work, so definitely not as exciting as yours.

I'm not sure that is true @HairdryerMary and at least you'll be very employable!