I am a bit early for this review, but now that I am looking forward to 2021 in earnest, this seems like the best time to reflect on the goals I set in January.
Personal
Goals
I have to say that considering all that has happened
this year, I didn’t do too badly with this goal. No, I am not doing aerobics or
Pilates, but I am walking every day, which is more than I was doing last year.
If I can get the bonus room cleaned up, I can create an exercise room. We
are talking about buying an elliptical machine. We have a treadmill and my barre for workouts. The punching bag will need to be replaced, since once of the kids' friends damaged it.
This is a goal that really needed more of my
attention. I read a verse almost every day and attend Bible study on Sunday
nights, but that’s really not enough. I am thinking the only way to accomplish
this goal is to get up early every morning and dive right in.
- Dedicate one
day a week to meal planning
I started off strong with this goal, but the dedication
waned as we all found ourselves at home more. At this point, I don’t have a
full meal plan in place, but I do know what protein I’ll be using, so that
helps.
- Make
smarter food choices
This was
the largest challenge for me this year. I am such an emotional eater and a junk
food junkie, so that doesn’t help. Trapped inside with the family for months
probably didn’t make it easier. I’m fairly certain once the girls move out my
eating habits will improve—don’t buy it, I can’t eat it—but what do I do in the
meantime?
I did fairly well this year. I
resigned from one organization, though I still support them monetarily. The
slower pace because of the pandemic and logging into my meetings
instead of driving to them certainly helped as well. Since I will be
president-elect of the local real estate board next year, assuming the
presidency in 2022, I know I will need to stay on top of this goal going
forward.
Professional
Goals
- Put
together a solid business plan
This was
the first year since 2014 that I didn’t put together a business plan. I had a huge
decision to make early in the year. That decision shouldn’t have interfered with creating a
business plan, but it did. Well, I allowed it to.
By the
time I knew where my head was at, COVID arrived. Two weeks later, the events
that unfolded at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke and would lead to my
father-in-law’s death, became my focus. It has literally taken me until this
month to fully get invested in real estate again. Though there remains no
closure in regards to those tragic events, I can stop my mind from agonizing over them all the time. Now, if the
ringing in my ears would stop, I could really focus.
- Commit to
weekly prospecting
Considering the year this has been, I feel I did
really well with this. Though there were a few weeks I didn’t prospect at all,
I prospected more this year than usual. I have also been better about staying
in touch with former clients and reaching out to new leads. Living in a pandemic world makes you stop and
think more about how you can help people. That’s why my volunteering ramped up
this year, too.
- Read two
business or leadership books this year
I met this goal by reading one book on
self-publishing and one on creating systems. The latter is where I feel I
always fail. Either I don’t create the systems or I create them and abandon
them when I get busy. I bought daily planner sheets to help with that in 2021.
Those will be easier than the journal I tried to keep.
This moved to 2021 because the testing centers have
been closed. They have reopened, but they have been backed up.
- Make an
important decision by January 10
I made
the decision and am confident I made the right choice.
What were some of your goals this year? What have you been most satisfied with accomplishing? What is one of your 2021 goals?
