2016 Goals

Each year Tate and I make goals, not resolutions. We actually have been making goals when we celebrate our Anniversary also for what we want to happen in the next year. I thought that was good enough. But then I saw on FB this post by Rachel Cruze (Dave Ramsey's daughter) about 7 areas you should focus on when making your New Year goals and I loved it. So when Tate and I sat down for our NYE sushi date (at home after boys were in bed), we made goals based on this list of areas for the 2016 year. I can see us doing this ever year now with these areas.


Intellectual:
Tate - his goal is to read 2-3 books this year. Now to some this may seem very small, but Tate and I are not book readers so to read this many will be big. We love reading books about financing, retirement, business, etc. To me they are like 'self help' books but in many different areas of life including career, personal and family.

Bridget - read 4 books this year. That is one a quarter. I already have 3 in mind so I really hope to accomplish this goal. I think by setting aside one night a week to focus on reading will really help this goal.

Physical:
Tate - Bench press 225 lbs and Squat 275 lbs (sets of 6). Tate works out everyday with his job but it's more cardio and endurance and not weight lifting. Now that we have our home gym he would love to build back up his muscles with weight training.

Bridget - Lose body fat %. I don't want to lose weight...I actually want to gain by converting fat to muscle. I would love to grow my booty, arms and legs. I would love a washboard stomach (wouldn't we all). More importantly, I want to feel good about myself, fuel my body with healthy foods and set a good example for my boys on balancing it all.

Spiritual:
Tate and I would love to focus this year on praying together. We learned how important this was during our wedding prep classes through our religion. We both feel weird and out of place when we pray together, but we shouldn't. I want to get to a place where we pray together regularly and have it not feel weird.

Family:
We would love to plan some sort of family even once a week. It could be sledding, go to the park, game night, movie night, etc. Time set aside for just family time.

Social:
Once a month getting together with friends. Game nights, dinner dates, kid play dates, etc. It could be anything but setting dates and getting together is a must.

Career:
Tate - open club 2. Tate and his boss are in the works of getting things in order for this to happen and Tate's goal is to make it happen this year.

Bridget - Focus more at work, meet billable hours goal each month and continue to bring in business. I love my job and enjoy going to work every day. I want my time there to be work so I can continue to improve and when home, focus on home. I feel like I am constantly combining the 2 which is not fair to my family when home and not fair to my work when at work.

Financially:
Pay our mortgage down to $145k. This is HUGE you guys but Tate and I believe this can be done. We made a goal on our Anniversary to have it paid down to $150k by October 2016 so if that goal is met, I don't doubt we can make it to $145k by the end of the year.

Great goals that Tate and I are prepared to dominate!!! Bring it 2016...we are ready for you :)