Progress towards some goals
March 26th, 2009Now that I’ve revealed my life goals, I thought I would detail the progress that I’m making on some of them. Many of them are just ideas in my head, but I have taken some steps towards completing a few. A good number of my goals are ongoing efforts, and I haven’t listed all of those here.
Be able to retire at 50, Fund my kids’ college education, and Become a millionaire: As far as I’m concerned, these three are somewhat related. “Millionaire” can be defined in multiple ways, so I guess I need to figure out which definition applies. What am I doing towards these goals? Gabe and I are both saving as much as we can in our retirement accounts (as well as towards Maddie’s college). I periodically do calculations and projections with spreadsheets and online tools to see if we’re on track. Having the ability to retire at 50 is an aggressive goal, though it doesn’t necessarily mean that we will stop working then. It just means that we’d like to be in a position to do so, if we desire.
Create yearly photobooks for our family: I started making photobooks near the beginning of my relationship with Gabe. We have a book from each full year that we have been together. I am in the middle of working on our 2008 book…though it might end up being 2 books at this rate. 2008 was an eventful year!
Help raise over $100,000 for the MS Society: If you saw my post a few days ago about this year’s Triangle MS Walk, you know some of what I have been doing to raise money for the National MS Society. This could take me many years, but I hope that it is something that I can achieve. You can help! Visit our team’s website:
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/goto/team_bpatrol
Prepare meals for families with new babies or illness: When Maddie was born, we greatly appreciated food that family and friends prepared for us. This is not a goal that I can cross off the list, but something that I would like to do when the opportunity arises. We have several opportunities in the coming weeks to do this for other families.
Take a photo each day for the first year of each of my children’s lives: I thought that this would be a neat project, and it was! We successfully took a photo of Maddie every day for the first year. I loved the results!
Take at least one family vacation each year: We may not be able to do this every year when our kids are very young (like last year, we didn’t go on any vacations with just the 3 of us), but we would like to be able to do it when we can. We recently booked a Bermuda cruise for our first official family vacation, and we will be taking it in May.
Visit all 50 states: I’ve made progress towards this goal throughout my life. I will be able to mark another state off the list in September when we visit Maine.
Visit all Canadian Provinces/Territories: After our trip in September, I will be able to mark New Brunswick and Nova Scotia off of my list.
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