Here are my ten goals for the year:

Spiritual:

1)  Read through the entire Bible

My church is doing a special Bible reading plan where we started Matthew on Dec. 25 and will read through the entire Bible by next December 24.

Financial:

2) Continue socking away as much as we can in retirement accounts.

This is the same as last year. I plan to put as much as I can into our IRAs and 403b. Since we are getting older, I sometimes feel a little behind on this…but I trust that God will provide what we need when we need it. I still struggle with whether or not “retirement” is Biblical, but I know that it is also wise to have money in savings. One thing that is really motivating to me is tracking our net worth at Personal Capital. I check in every few months just to see where we are. I also have automatic withdrawals set up to make this easier.

3)  Continue to donate all proceeds from God’s Little Explorers to the orphanage we are supporting. 

In the past six-and-a-half years, we’ve been able to raise over $97000 with your help!  The project is still lacking funds to finish, so we will continue to donate 100% of the proceeds. I’ve said this before, but I would love for this to be the year the project is completely done. They are lacking about $30,000 to be able to finish it enough to move in!

4) Rebuild our emergency fund.

We have this back up to about 1-1.5 months worth right now, but I’d definitely like to have it closer to 3-6 months worth by the end of the year. Here’s more about how to build an emergency fund here.

Health and Fitness

5)  Workout 3-4 times per week.

I love Metabolic Prime and I signed up for Metabolic Prime transformation this week (through the FB group that you get access to when you order the program), so I plan to do that the next 12 weeks. Then, I plan to continue with the Thinner, Leaner, Stronger program and walking our puppy every night.

6)  Average 8,000 steps per day.

I didn’t quite hit this last year, but I’m still using my Fitbit and plan to park longer distances away from my job and add in some more walking with my dog when the weather improves.

Marriage

7)  Go on a special anniversary celebration.

It will be 20 years of marriage in June, and we are planning to do something special for that. I have automated my savings for this, so hopefully we can make it happen this year!

Parenting

8)  Be mom more often than teacher

We started homeschooling again, so I find myself being teacher more often than mom. If you’ve homeschooled, maybe you know what I mean? I’m setting specific hours for our homeschool day so that I can focus on being mom outside of those hours.

Personal:

9)  Read 52 books.

I loved having Goodreads last year, and I plan to read at least one book per week again.

Blogging:

10)  Produce new content for my blogs twice per month.

Blogging has been on the backburner for several years, and I’m just doing enough to get by. My goal is to add more quality content (2 pieces per month) for both Motherhood on a Dime and Amazing Mess.