This is my answer to “WE81 post topics: past and future” and you can also join this challenge here, Also a special shoutout to @galenkp for these wonderful questions as usual.
On this week’s post topic, the question I will be answering is option five which says;
Tell us about your 2022 goals and what plans you have set in place to achieve them. How will you track your progress, mitigate the risk of failure to achieve them and how will you celebrate when you attain them?
For years, I have written goals and new year’s resolutions but I never really focused on achieving them until 2021, like I always say, 2021 for me was a year that I was very intentional about my life and this pushed me into not only writing down goals but also working towards them and because of this, I promised myself to write down goals for 2022 also.
Now my goals for 2022 are separated into five parts and these parts are; financial/career, spiritual, health/physical, social/family, and mental/emotional and I will be taking the time to break down each of these goals.
FINANCIAL/ CAREER GOALS
To be completely honest, I think this will be one of my top priorities because most of my other goals hinge on this, so for my financial goals some things I want to achieve include;
- Making my first million naira.
- Have at least two stable streams of income.
- Actively save monthly.
- Have at least 1000 HBD in my savings.
- Write and engage consistently for the whole year.
For these goals, I will achieve them by being conscious about my finances, actively learning about finance, and also working towards them intentionally.
SPIRITUAL GOALS
As a Christian, my spirituality is very important to me so some things I want to achieve in my spiritual life include;
- Praying twice a day.
- Reading my devotional daily.
- Attending church religiously.
- Giving more; both time and finance.
- Getting more faith-based books.
To achieve these goals I will be setting reminders and alarms on my phone because I realized that it helped me a lot when I did it last year.
HEALTH/PHYSICAL GOALS
Like we all know health is wealth and looking good is good business so these goals include;
- Eating better and taking more walks.
- Losing weight or bulking up.
- Getting my teeth cleaned at the dentist.
- Doing a full medical body checkup.
- Focusing on my skin, hair, wardrobe, and how I look overall.
I think these goals involve money so to achieve most of them I will need to focus on my finances.
SOCIAL/FAMILY GOALS
As someone who finds it hard to be around people I want to actively work on this so my goals here include;
- Try to go out more and socialize.
- Give more to my friends and family; time and finances.
- Be kinder to people.
- Donate more.
- Support my friends and family.
I feel like this will be the easiest to achieve because I already focus a lot on this.
MENTAL/EMOTIONAL GOALS
I have had past experiences dealing with depression and suicidal thoughts so I really wanted to be intentional about this area of my life this year so some goals here include;
- Reading more; at least 50 books.
- Cutting off people who I know aren't good for me and taking social media breaks.
- Expressing how I feel because I hardly do this and I know bottling things in affects me a lot.
- Taking things easy and not pushing myself too hard.
- Trying new things i.e foods, hobbies, language, etc, and also learning how to drive.
I think these goals involve a lot of self-checking because it can be easy to fall off or forget so I'll do that by setting constant reminders.
IN CONCLUSION
It is essential to know that my goals aren't fixed and if I have more goals I will still group them into these sections but for now, these are what I will be focusing on.
I have also gone a step further to group the individual goals into small and large achievements in my book so for each small achievement I will treat myself to a snack or some sweets and for each large achievement I will buy an item I want and at the end of the year I will be reviewing this list.
I know that it wouldn't be easy achieving some of these but I am intentional so I know that I will work hard towards it and most likely achieve them all.
Before I end this, I will love to hear about your goals for 2022 below and how you plan on achieving them.
Experiencing how I feel part got me because after I read here on hive, that I should allow myself to experience all my emotions, I started doing them.
It has served me well. When I am happy, I allow myself to savor it all. When I a hurt or sad, I let myself feel it too. This means, I support you on this one.
And yes, you have my support in all the points you have noted here and are willing to work towards. I wish you all the best babe.
Yeah, it is very important to experience and express emotions because without doing that we end up bottling too much until it overflows.
Thank you for your support baby girl.
I am grateful I discovered it too. Now, we both can go on and live better lives than we are used to. Cheers to us. 🥂
Exactly.
These are nice goals you have here, what a better way of laying out your goals on the blockchain using Hive blockchain. I hope you achieve these goals.
Thank you so much, I guess laying it out here means it can't be lost.
Being intentional is a very key part of achieving any goal and you've got that covered. I think if you keep going like this by the time you revisit your list you'll find you've achieved more than you set for yourself. I'll be happy to celebrate with you when you get there ❤❤
Exactly that's my plan to be intentional and keep checking what I have written over and over.
Thank you so much for your kind words.
This may contradict all the other goals 😄
Interesting, we have the same last name! Michal Jackson may be your distant cousin as he is mine. Very distant, like moon to earth.
I mean yes but I can still work towards goals without overthinking myself to death 😆 if you get what I mean.
We have the same last name, yaayy, that is pretty amazing, Micheal Jackson could be our relative from another timeline, who knows.
Of course, I like your goals and they are realistic. I like the categories as well. Makes me want to create one myself but Every-time I do, it barely gets done, what changed for you in 2021?
A cousin of mine did some research and found it he was our distant cousin, the ships went to different countries carrying the ancestors.
What changed? Well, I realized that I was very stagnant in life, my goals weren't been achieved and I was living life as it came, wanted to be more in control.
You should try to write some, might just shock you when you do them.