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Midlife Musings and Measurable Goals
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doingitanyway
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I looked back at my MSE diary from 2016. I wanted a dog, a car and a trip to NY. I wanted to be DF and MF. Things change. I am DF and MF and I did get a car, although driving wasn’t all it was cracked up to be so I’m letting it go. I don’t much fancy New York anymore, I prefer rural Scotland. 
I am embarking on creating the life I want to live. I have a tiny income, but I am free and that outweighs any money stresses I might experience. There are loads of things I want to achieve in 2020, all the normal stuff like holidays and creative activities and optimum health. I want to get organised and start a morning and evening routine. I want to get serious about work and serious about living my best possible life. Oh, and I still want a dog…
Here are my measurable goals
Tech
20 new tech steps mastered and implemented (1-2 a month)
MSE
20 premium bonds purchased (1-2 month) £500 at the end of the year
20 NSDs a month
20 new MSE actions that improve my financial situation (1-2 a month)
Work
20 applications to raise my creative profile (1-2 a month)
20 things applied for to support my creative process.
2020 pounds earned from my creative work in 2020
20 hours a week focused creative work
House
20 new home improvements (1-2 a month)
2020 is the year the house goes on the market
20 items out of the house every month
Health and fitness
20 miles a month walked or cycled (5 miles a week)
20 kilos lost in a year (This equates to a pound a week)
20 parks or open green spaces visited a year (1-2 a month)
20 AFDs a month
Some of these are big goals! Wish me luck. I have a feeling I’ll need it
I am embarking on creating the life I want to live. I have a tiny income, but I am free and that outweighs any money stresses I might experience. There are loads of things I want to achieve in 2020, all the normal stuff like holidays and creative activities and optimum health. I want to get organised and start a morning and evening routine. I want to get serious about work and serious about living my best possible life. Oh, and I still want a dog…
Here are my measurable goals
Tech
20 new tech steps mastered and implemented (1-2 a month)
MSE
20 premium bonds purchased (1-2 month) £500 at the end of the year
20 NSDs a month
20 new MSE actions that improve my financial situation (1-2 a month)
Work
20 applications to raise my creative profile (1-2 a month)
20 things applied for to support my creative process.
2020 pounds earned from my creative work in 2020
20 hours a week focused creative work
House
20 new home improvements (1-2 a month)
2020 is the year the house goes on the market
20 items out of the house every month
Health and fitness
20 miles a month walked or cycled (5 miles a week)
20 kilos lost in a year (This equates to a pound a week)
20 parks or open green spaces visited a year (1-2 a month)
20 AFDs a month
Some of these are big goals! Wish me luck. I have a feeling I’ll need it
If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them
Emergency fund 100/1000
Buffer fund 0/100
Debt Free (again) 25/072025
Emergency fund 100/1000
Buffer fund 0/100
Debt Free (again) 25/072025
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Found your thread and hv subscribed. I wish you well in your quest xCount down to retirement 20231
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Happy new diary and good luck with your goals!1
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Always read through your old diary, I have made a resolution to be less of a lurker, so subscribed and best of luck
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Shiny new diary - posting to subscribe. I will post a link for you on your old diaryI think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine1 -
Love those goals, lots of food for thought for me. Deal with the dog one first, it’ll be the biggest life enhancerMortgage at 01.01.14 £119,481.83:eek: today £0 Emergency fund £5.5/5.5k & £200/200 cash.:jWeight 24/02/19 14st 7lb now 12st determined to stop defining myself by my mistakes. Progress not perfection.:T100%through my 1% mortgage challenge. 100% through my pb challenge.2
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Happy New Diary and Happy New Year "If you can dream it, you can do it". Walt Disney1
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I had a read of your old diary yesterday and wished you well in your brave quest to live "dangerously", authentically. Good to see you re-grouping and forging ahead into 2020. All your targets seem achievable. I think premium bonds are a good plan and you have inspired me to stick away £50.00 a month in them too, i'll wish for a big win for both of us!!1
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Subscribed to your new diary DIA . So many achievable goals here .
Look forward to the next stage of your journey 1 -
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***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.1 -
Followed you over and subscribed to you new diary DIA.
Goals sound fantastic, and I hope that 2020 brings everything you want. X I Believe.....
That it isn't always enough, to be forgiven by others.
Sometimes, you have to learn to forgive yourself.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery
Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.
happiness isn't achieved by getting extra things,
but by getting rid of the things that make you unhappy1
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