Positive Steps Challenge 2013

fairyclicks

Hello and Welcome to the Positive Steps Challenge for 2013

We have been stepping for over a year now and achieved so much in 2012 on our wee thread.

If you are new to the challenge its very simple - we post our steps for the day and then update each other how we have got on Everything we achieve is another step closer to our own goals - sometimes that's getting through the day, sometimes it's working towards getting debt free, and sometimes it's about getting our lives looking more like we want them too

Whatever ur plans for 2013 are why not join us and see how it helps you!

fairyclicks

To start the thread I thought it would be good to think over our goals for 2013 and share them

Mine so far are:


To reduce debt by £5000
To start exercising 3 times a week
To get rid of the boxes and boxes of stuff I have gathered up
To join a sewing group
To lose at least 1 stone in weight

I will be adding some more as I think of them but those are my main ones for now! I look forward to hearing yours

I knew there would be more lol:

To do a business plan for my crafts and website
To get my car back on the road - Acheived 4th Feb
To sort my daily finances
Keep House Clean and Tidy
Get up to £1000 in my Zopa account

itsa

Hi everyone

Thank you for starting a new thread, fairy.

My aims for 2013 are to sort my entire life out :eek::eek::eek:

Okay, that might be a bit much to start with so I'll break it down a bit

To pay off ALL debt (currently £17,014 and DFD Nov 2014)

To make my flat as comfortable and pretty as possible (don't really want to live here, but I'm not really sure where I do want to live, so for now I've decided to enjoy here as much as possible).

Quit smoking (again :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:)

Get as healthy and looking as good as I can (currently mentally and physically drained and looking a right mess!).

Get a social life (currently nil, zero, nada; the worst thing is I don't even want to do anything about it, I'm sort of happy being alone because I don't have to make any effort but I don't think it's good for me in the long run so I must start to be a bit more social) .

Work - not even sure where to start with this. It's a good job, I used to love it, but the pressure's definitely on and I think I'm burned out by it; I need to at least have some ideas about how I want to move it forward because I can't stand this for the next gawd knows how many years.

Okay, I think that's enough to be going on with for now :rotfl:

Happy new year to everyone:)

itsa

fairyclicks

Hehehe itsa I was tempted to write sort out my whole life too lmao!

I love your goals I spend a lot of time on my own too so that's one of the reasons I added join a sewing group - I don't drink and sometimes it's hard to find other things to do for socialising!

loobylou2

Can I join in the challenge too please? My steps for 2013 will be to:

1: Try and get rid of as much debt as I can as I owe around 8,000. I know compared to some its not a huge amount but its a huge amount to me!!!

2: Stop drinking Coca Cola ( I'm addicted to the stuff) and try to eat more healthily.

3: Try and get more exercise. I am so unfit its unbelievable and working at a desk all day does not help.

4: Get my house sorted out ( Its a bombsite!!)

5: Stop being so anxious and panicky all the time, try to stop worrying so much.

fairyclicks

Of course you can join us loobyloo you are in good company with the bombsite house and the anxiety! !

We will get there with stepping it's worked wonders for lots of us last year! Xxx

Giggles86

Thanks for the new thread FairyClicks I fell off the wagon a bit in the past few weeks but am determined next year to do better. My goals for 2013 are:
1) To start saving money to move out
2) To exercise more often (joining the gym in the new year and will get a discount working for the council)
3) To complete my proofreading course (starting tomorrow!)
4) Not buy any birthday/christmas/anniversary/easter cards and make them all instead - possibly with a view to selling some.
5) Read a lot more (aiming for an hour a day at least as this is roughly my bus commute time)
6) Learn to drive
7) Eat more healthily and cook from scratch more often! (Written as I'm sat munching on a bag of crisps in front of the tv!)

Feels like a lot of things to aim for but I've never been so determined! I want more of my own space and at least the cards and proofreading could help me to save a bit more!!

prophecy_grrl

Hi there I would like to make some changes to my life in 2013 so would like to track them and get kicked up the bum to achieve them... This thread seems like a good place to start! I have read your aims and mine are not as exiting I'm afraid... In 2013 I aim to:
1 - buy and move into a house with DS (we are living with my best mate at the minute, I sold my last house in the summer, it was my former marital home. Ex husband cheated on me and left in summer 2011, it took a year to sort out the house divorce etc but I have done it and now want a forever home for me and DS that is just for us, decorated and furnished the way I want it and not to please anybody else)
2 - Stay out of debt (despite becoming single out of the blue I managed to clear my debt in October 2011 and am determined to stay debt free by sticking to my budget and saving for emergencies)
3 - Have a clutter free home (I decluttered loads when I moved out of my old house but know that there are boxes of old paperwork, toys and clothes in storage that I want to get rid of. Tying into my first aim I want my forever home to be clutter free!)

I guess those are my aims for now, I am feeling positive about achieving them and about me and DS's future. 2013 will be my year!!!

Looking forward to seeing how we all get on

P_grrl xxx

lemonpopcorn

Hi, I would like to join, sounds like a great idea to take things a step at a time as often I've so much that i want to do/acheive that i feel overwhelmed
my steps are as follows:

• cycle three times a week
• eat a bit healthier each day
• sell my share of my mums house
• have a nicely decorated house and garden
• start a veg/fruit garden
• go on holiday abroad
• start sorting/paying off outstanding debts
• claw back the charges from previous mortgage company
• pass (with a decent mark) my PQ
• be on top of my paperwork
• have the op to remove my cyst
• get my teeth sorted

quite a lot to do really but having it here will help sort my head out and help me plan how to do it hopefully

georgiebrown0

Can I join please.

I would like to feel more positive this can done by cleaning out my house and trying to be more organised.

I will also try to batch cook and meal plan.
I will also start to look at my career and look at where I want to be in the future

prophecy_grrl

Ok so I know it's not 2013 yet but I thought I'd list some positive steps I've taken / will take today:
1 - done January budget, and as pay has gone in done online banking, put sufficient money in bills account and put aside savings for forever home
2 - will respond to 2 ebayers who posted me questions in the night on items I'm selling in the big declutter
3 - will make my sealed pot for SPC 6 which I plan to use for Xmas food shopping in 2013 and this helps with my aim of staying within budget and out of debt

Positive steps... Such a good idea for a challenge!

Have a good day all

P_grrl xxx