Achieving Goals & Dreams in 2015

I am not going to lie to you guys. This new year’s was a tough one for me.  The reflection on the year before is always hard.  DH tried to point out the good things like I started really running this year and all the 5K’s and the 10K I did.  But when I look at the list of things I wanted to achieve last year NOT ONE can be crossed off. After a very big crankfest that lasted most of today & I finally decided to try to come up with a motto for this new year and I decided it is “Achieving Goals & Dreams in 2015”  It has a nice ring to it.   This motto covers everything I would like to see happen this next year. Some of them are BIG dreams and Intimidating goals but they are all doable.  Here are some amazing questions to ask yourself for this New Year: (I got these from someone and can’t take credit for them but I love them)

1.       What would you like your biggest triumph to be in 2015?

2.       What advice would you like to give yourself in 2015?

3.       What major change are you willing to make to improve your financial results in 2015?

4.       What would you be most happy about completing in 2015?

5.       What would you most like to change about yourself in 2015?

6.       What are you looking forward to learning in 2015?

7.       What do you think is the biggest risk you are willing to take in 2015?

8.       What is an undeveloped talent you are willing to explore in 2015

9.       What brings you the most joy? How are you going to have more of that in 2015?

10.   What one word would you like to have as your theme for 2015?

It is such a good list of questions it gets you thinking more than just what needs to change it addresses how you are going to bring that change about.  Like question 3 for example.  Sure we all want to make better money choices. We can make a resolution to save more, pay off debt etc… But question 3 asks major change are you willing to make to improve your financial results in 2015?  Saying my resolution is to shop less or cook at home more sounds crazy! But those are the changes I need to make in order to improve my financial results in 2015, less shopping & less eating out.

Some people are very anti New Year resolution and I think that the New Year is just a good fresh start.  It brings your mind to the right place you need it to be to make changes. So answer the questions and make some decisions to make those changes. The only person that is standing in your way is you.