Q06

Describe one thing you'd like to achieve by this time next year. Why is this important to you?

Getting my own place. I think being able to live independently will allow me to truly live on my own terms and I think it would do wonders for my self esteem and my confidence!

I’d like to get to Colombia because I’ve been waiting for my visa so long…haha. Hmm… I’m trying to think of concrete, creative things that I’ve thought of doing. I think I want to go to Krakow for Ride of the living. I would love to learn a little French. Be able to do at least 5 chin-ups and one pull up. Go paragliding in Santander. These things are important to me because I feel like I’m moving a bit past emotional goals or long term goals and just living in the moment. I want to enjoy my new life abroad this year - that’s really the priority; I don’t think there’s anything specific I’m severely lacking right now.

Double my salary with a better job. I went to earn more and start a family. I know I need more income in order to get a home, get married, or have kids. I've been with Chipmunk for years and I want it to be official.

Inbox Zero. Just kidding. I would like to have art on Instagram, Society 6, I would like to have adopted a pet. I would like to stop apologizing for who I am or hiding it, with words or actions. I would like to decide if I’m going back to school, and whether it would be psych or urban planning or public health. I will have gotten my five-year certification. Wait, wait, wait. Choose one. Same thing as last year. I am closer with my novel than I was last year. I’ve got structure figured out better! I really want to have some chapters ready for Texas trans kids and families. I want to find an agent or release pages or… figure out my goals and my schedule and work 2-3 days a week on it. But I actually also really really want to have Metal Collective happy and functioning, with 501 status. Because that is needed too. I need to work on that 2-3 days a week too. Oi vey.

I want to really knock it out of the park at work. Kick ass on a project and not doing all nighters and be working up to the last second. I want to have submitted a citizenship application even if the process isn't complete. I want to have done more about ADHD I want to on that bike/camping ride!

I was promoted to my first managerial position this past year. I hope to demonstrate the confidence placed in me by my own supervisors and to prepare my direct report so that they are ready to take the reins themselves. This is important to me because I want to learn from this experience how to best guide whole teams towards a shared goal in professional settings - and be the best leader that I can be.

I would like to bring my company completely back to life, by finally raising the capital I need to operate a successful company. It's important because I can do more to support an industry and group of people I love.

Started to write the usual list, then I saw ONE thing. By this time next year, I will have gotten rid of many possessions. Not specific, I know, but that's okay. Swedish Death Cleaning frame of mind. So much more. I'm stopping myself from writing the list--doesn't have to be here-can be elsewhere. Sad to see last year's weight loss goal, my weight hasn't changed from last year. At least, no big gain.

Made up my mind about having a baby or not. Oof. That's a big one. It's so important so that I can just know if it's something I'm going to try for, or move fwd without one. And plan on there not being one. Either way, i just want clarity.

I want to swim laps. I want to reach 200 yards uninterrupted (8 25 yd laps) +another 35 minutes of of swimming and then try joining a masters swim team.

I want to be happy. And that feels too often elusive.

By this time next year I would like to have a clearer image of my retirement life. Where it will be and what might be possible financially. This seems reasonable.

i have mostly given up trying to clean out the whole house for the ultimate downsizing and move, but had some moments of passing along things of marginal value, for clutter's sake. household tasks and doctor's appointments have been interfering with this long-term goal. finally getting ready to start my pension, and hope i can stay on top of financial paperwork, especially in the advent of medicare enrollment and SSA, for peace of mind in the event of papers-left-behind-in sudden-death occasion.

I want to create an art practice. I want to spend regular time creating. Right now, I am not sure what regular time means: daily, very other day, etc. I would also like to be mindful of my eating, possibly incorporating a keto diet to manage my inflammation.

Please, please, please let me be able to roller skate. I want to experience the joy and freedom of floating on wheels, moving and dancing while flowing freely on pavement.

I’d like to have a fairy story outline by this time next year. It’s important to me because it combines my two greatest non-human loves: writing and drawing, and it affords me opportunities for creative writing.

Teaching mediation and self compassion, I think learning self care and overcoming guilt and shame are imperative if we are to be more compassionate.

Independence from cigarettes and codependence. I need to keep recovering my real self and accepting my feelings. Wherever that gets me will be good.

By October 2023 I would like to be in the final stages of a pregnancy with our surrogate. I'll be turning 38 next year and every year that passes will make it harder to be an active mother - not impossible, just harder. I've always had this deep, insatiable desire to be a good mother. I'm fully aware there are plenty more roadblocks and disasters that could throw that plan off course. But I'm trying my hardest. We're trying our hardest. <3

By sept 23. Lose 60 ponds Complete The Columbia river weekend 6 miles in 60 minutes walking 16 miles in 60 minutes biking .6 miles (x2) in 16 minutes Be in my own appartment Be on track with my budget

Journaling and running. Keeps me connected

I’d like to be pregnant again. I’m ready to expand my family but I’m studying and need to get placement hours, course requirements, etc. it’s a big commitment. It’s a challenge and I feel like I need to make peace with breaking up my studying to have another baby.

I want to continue playing baseball and basketball without any injuries. I hope Sally is well trained and continues to be the great dog 🐕 she has been so far

Confidence and consistent action resulting in a business with twelve business partners consistently and actively engaged (on fire) in personal and professional development, outreach, and income producing activity; and thirty customers direct to me. This achievement allows me to leave my full time job to focus on building my business, the tea plantation, my family and home. It leads to contentment. Content, I invest in encouraging leadership in our community.

I'm really focused on me, my confidence, health and well-being, wealth and relationships. Getting physically in-shape helps me be mentally in shape and helps me be my best communicating (not acting out of fear, past trauma anger or other) and being in relationship with others. SO, I would like to be stronger (running/jogging, lifting weights, disciplined exercise) and weigh 180 lbs (weight is less significant, more about muscle and health). Being my best allows me to encourage, support and inspire the best in my partner, kids, family and friends. When I shine my light it helps others shine theirs (I had a prayer about this - hoping I find it before next year!)

Healthy, and fit. I recently joined the gym and I want/hope I continue to stay dedicated! It's important mot only so I can feel good about myself, but so I can be healthy foe my son, and maybe getting fit and healthier will help with conceiving another child! I'd like to continue to set strict boundaries with my in laws which in turn also helps defend myself and my self worth.

Financial freedom. With the money I hope to make, I want to start allocating money into better uses. Such as, starting an investment account, savings, travel, and etc. Have my money start to make money and be comfortable with any event that may happen. This year was a step in the right direction in my finances but, I feel like there's a lot of growth still to be done.

I feel ready to let go of big goals for the coming year. I’d like to get just a little better month by month at doing hard things that improve the quality of my life: staying off my phone in the morning, taking cold showers, exercising every day. But not to arrive at a big goal; rather, to enjoy every day more. And I’d like to fall in love. Addendum: this year, I want to grasp my own mortality and the coming chaos.

I would like to find a new job.

I would like to make a decision one way or another about my life. I am pondering alternative career and have done lots of research so feel I have made progress. It is important as I feel I need to do something for myself

By next year, I hope to have submitted my research project to a manuscript. This is important because seeing my name in print would really be a special experience for me. I LOVE reading, I LOVE research articles and to share my own writing and research with the world would be so special.

Id like to have a regular schedule for going tk the gym at least 3 days a week and walking or riding my bike jn between

Progress with therapy - less anxiety, more control over my emotions, better tools for dealing with adhd, self-acceptance and higher self-esteem. Being at peace with myself and with my life. Being able to enjoy things as they come and let them go when they pass. Hopefully also in better health, even if that means temporarily not working. Normally I would have career goals or skills I want to achieve - get a driving licence, improve my language skills or master the guitar. I'm obviously not opposed to picking up new hobbies or bettering my skills, but this year it is not my priority. My health and recovery is. If I actually know what to do with my life a year from now, that would be a win.

Write. Write. Write. By this time next year I want to be on my way to publication.

My initial thought was to put “I’d like to achieve a promotion” in the next year, though that seems like a bit of a stretch. But stretch goals are good, so I’ll leave it here. More broadly, I’d like to have more of a sense of direction with respect to my career. I’ve been interested yet held back from management for so long that my confidence has started to take a toll in spite of a lot of growth in the last year or so. But I feel so strongly that it’s something I could be good at, I feel it’s necessary to pursue - the next step is feeling like I have more confidence in how to get there.

I just want to dwell in a sukkah of time. I know the shmita year is now over, but I need to dwell.

Another triathlon! I was right last year: I did absolutely enjoy the sport and open water swimming. There's so much to continue learning and I want to be able to complete a tri more strongly, especially by doing the front crawl and getting out of my head on the swim. I want to continue to grow in comfort and in skill in the water. I'd also equally like to have found a different job. This one is not where I am meant to be and I know that. I need to find a way to gently push myself to do the hard work of job searching so I may be closer to a whole person once again.

To find wholeness without Ricky so that I can live fully again.

My documentary film which I’ve been working on for almost 10 years. It has to be finished and to have been released into the world. I am ready for a new project and a new kind of life where I’m not constantly stuck on and held back by and weighed down by the thought - this still isn’t done.

I've said it before, but now I really mean it. I want to have taken the GRE! And have a list of schools I want to apply to. I need to get serious about studying.

Last year's goal was to feel more deeply connected to our community. While I have made some strides related to that goal, it continues to be a priority. I hope that by next year, I feel even more connected to our community and have found ways to explore the history of our neighborhood and city with my kids.

By next year I would like to be married to the love of my life. Together, we can walk the path towards salvation.

I want to slow my pace to improve my health and my relationships.

Quiero encontrar la manera de promocionar mi trabajo y quiero encontrar otra fuente de ingresos. Me encantaría montar un negocio pequeñito con algunas amigas. Quiero resolver desde el amor el conflicto familiar.

I've had this goal before, but I'd like to craft one more story that I could tell to an audience--the type of "self, us, now" that I learned in organizing. I think storytelling is a really important muscle and I love hearing them, so I want to take a more active role in being a part of that community.

I would like to learn Haftorah trope—and chant at least one time for Shabbat services. To that end, I dove into the URJ Art of Cantillation, Volume 2 yesterday. I’d like to transcribe part of grandpa Blank’s memoir for my grandchildren, especially the pages where he describes his childhood “in Lendershausen. I want finish the personal essay about my Jewish identity and decide how to preserve and share my most meaningful pieces.

I’d like to be into my master’s program for educational leadership but not rushed. I know what my wife wants for me (she wants me to become a principal as soon as possible), but I still feel like I have more to give in the classroom before I make that move. I am hoping to apply for department chair, as I feel I would be good in that role and would benefit the department.

By this time next year, I want to have close friends. I want to feel confident in our friendship. I want to feel at ease with friends. I want to be able to talk easily with friends, to share who I am, to discover things about them.

I'd like to complete another winter sweater, and I'd like to improve my pickleball skills.

I'd like to be back on my bike with the energy to ride.

I’d like to find a new job that pays me enough to survive and enjoy small things, but doesn’t suck the joy out of life. I don’t live to work. I work to live and my current job really is just taking everything from me.

I am happy that I am answering these questions this year. I have put behind me the whole idea of setting goals for achievements. We have been so challenged by evolving health concerns that my biggest goal is to have a year with no major health crises.

I want to progress with publishing poetry. Whether it's in book format or just a poem in a magazine or journal. By this time next year I want to have shared some of these words that have been so helpful to me with others.

I want to get an important job/internship!! This is SO overachiever of me to want a solid internship before junior year of undergrad but I KNOW I am qualified enough and all I want is more experience and to learn, and I really want my hard work to pay off by means of another job that gives me more work to do. :) Completely juxtaposing this: I really want a tattoo. Easy to achieve.... unless you're me and you have an insane mental block in the form of your mother's voice.

Have the apartment sold and beginning the search or finishing the process of our new home.

Yay! I am at my goal weight (sort of) right now. My WW goal is 6 pounds higher than my personal goal. I've been at my WW goal for over 6 months although I've only been at my personal goal for a few weeks in all that time. Maybe I'll be there by next year. I would like to be walking a whole lot more of this coming year.

With the construction project out of the way, We will be able to do just about anything we want. Traveling is high on the list. Maybe the 7 wonders of the world! So far health is not an issue. I enjoy working with kids. Putting together a Montana Dino Dig Tour sounds like fun.

I would like to learn how to swing dance. I keep writing about changing jobs and obviously two or three years in a row that hasn't happened. I would still like it to, but I would also like to be less defined by it, because clearly there are reasons that I have stayed. I would like to have successfully achieved one year of living with a partner. I would like to learn to do my hair in a more interesting way. I would like to try at least a few new (or old) recipes that I can get good at. I think I have long brushed off domestic things as things that I don't care to prioritize, but I think I'm ready to be better at taking care of myself and really putting in the time to do so, as opposed to just saying it every year and not acting on it.

Getting the house more organized. I want the kids not to be surrounded by visual chaos. I don't want to be surrounded by visual chaos. I want our home to be a place to recharge and connect and not feel the weight of the projects that are "supposed" to be completed.

Stop smoking!!

I want resolution in my relationship. I thought we were on track to get engaged soon, but instead, last week we almost broke up. By this time next year, I hope that we've worked through these problems with communication and are engaged with intentions to continue working on us... or that I've realized that we weren't on that track and muster up the strength to leave the relationship, despite sharing a house and dog and that option being a logistical nightmare. I deserve to be with someone who wants to wholeheartedly choose me, every day, even when it's hard. And someone who wants to do that of their own volition. This time next year it will have been 5 years if we're together, and if he doesn't know he wants to marry me by then, he never will.

A new job. I really really need to be doing something that is not sucking out my soul.

I'd like to actually be thriving in a role, whether that's 1) devrel *dream job* 2) engineering manager *other dream job* or 3) software engineer in an actually nurturing environment. I had some calls today that were promising; just hope I can pass the onsites too. I'm tired of sinking in all my roles. I want to thrive when I'm barely surviving. (I'm not surviving; they all hate me.)

Be a calm dad

I'd like to feel like I have a home and community in Darlo. We are moving house next week and saying goodbye to lots of friends, to move to a town where we literally know noone. In particular I want to find a running community of friends, and a bubble of friends for Elliott and John too. We are all social people - friends and community are what makes us thrive and what makes life feel good - and making new friends can be so hard, but when you find that connection - it's the best feeling in the world.

By this time next year, I want to be living in accessible housing. My nesting partner and I currently live on only the upper floor of our two-story house, because I am bedbound and they are housebound and can't use the stairs. That means we don't have access to our kitchen or space where we could spend time with masked guests. We've set up a little kitchenette upstairs, but it is so far from ideal. The stairs and hallways are also too narrow for me to access medical stretcher transport, so all my healthcare needs and medical goals are on indefinite hold. Moving to accessible housing would enable us to access a broader range of food, better medical care, and hopefully be able to be set up in a way that my bedroom is truly accessible and well set-up for bedbound life, as opposed to the hodgepodge inaccessible chaos that it is currently. I also hope to be able to set up my room so I have access to more of my hobbies and space for masked company. Have my bed positioned so I can see out my window and open the blinds myself. I haven't been outside in over a year and I Miss it. I want to at least be able to See outside. My nesting partner might also be able to enjoy the outdoors some if we were all on one level and especially if they could get a powerchair covered once we're in wheelchair-accessible housing (which is a requirement for getting a powerchair funded). And with access to more medical care, I may be able to eventually manage my POTS well enough that I can sit up sometimes and access the outdoors with my own powerchair. So yeah. We have some leads. I'm really hopeful this could actually start to happen in the next year. It would change our lives to an almost inconceivable degree.

Only one thing? After all these years of writing, you people don't know me very well! I still want to lose weight. I did lose some last year. My all time goal is to be at 135. It's not that far, 20 pounds. I can do this. I also want continue to increase my religious observance and participation at Shul, not only in services but also in volunteering. I also want to be even further along with my dreams of being more organized! Its getting better!

I would have had a good answer for this question last year, but life has gotten so topsy-turvy I honestly have no idea what to expect in the next year. Where will I live? Where will I be projected to live? The main thing I want to do is be more proactive in mingling with non-Christians, and I think the most natural way for me to do that is in the context of making music.

I'd like to care less about what other people think about me, especially people who don't mean that much to me anyway.

I'd like to have a functional and rewarding family rhythm with two kids, one starting Kindergarten and one in a nanny share. I'd like to be in a better place financially, and to be coming off of an enriching summer season with the right amount of travel adventures, family, and downtime. Finally, I'd like to feel like my role at work is meaningful and sustainable. All these areas of my life are important, and I guess the overall "achievement" here is for the post-baby upheaval period to gradually turn into a healthy set of routines that lets everyone spend quality time together doing the things that matter most.

Helped another person go through the twelve steps. I need to give what was given to me.

I've got so much that *has* to be done by next year that I'm not putting any other goals on my plate. I'm moving, I'm getting married, and all the things that go with those are enough to keep me busy for the year

Stability. I love my life and I would love to keep living it as I have. I wouldn't mind exploring expanding my family (this is always near to my heart) and I wouldn't mind living with my partner, and I wouldn't mind publishing some novels, but if all that happens is things stay good, then I will be satisfied.

I'd like to be earning enough money to know that I am able to sustain myself financially. It matters to me because I fear for my future financial stability, even though I know I am not at *real* risk of being homeless (thanks to the privilege I already have, including good relationships with family members with resources.)

Spend less time working especially during the business day. Go to Europe and Florida. This is a natural reprioritzation given my age. I don't earn that much money as a consultant anyway.

I would like to have COMPLETED one piece of writing — a play or a short story. Along with that, to have established a consistent daily writing practice.

Personal, professional. Developments in community and purpose. Practical, theoretical, leadership. I'd like to finish my electric grid project, but I expect that to be done sooner. Maybe by December. I would like to show that I am not a one-trick pony. I'd like to repaint my polo bike. I'd like to be better at polo. Polo is a fun community that is important to me. We all show up trying to be better. It's important to take it seriously. Repainting the bike will give me a little more confidence. Fixing it will allow me to play better. I'd like to be happy in my romantic life. I don't like feeling bad. I'd like to have a new responsibility at work besides being tech support. I would like to show that I have something unique to contribute to the team. I would like to feel special. I'd like to redecorate my apartment. I want it to feel like a welcoming space that people want to be in and that reflects that of a mature adult. I'd like to spend more time with my parents. I'd like to have spent 3 weeks with them by this time next year.

1. Returning to a more healthy self. Eating well, working out, and lots of stretching. Not only to be confident at our wedding, but also to feel good in my body and have more energy/less pains. 2. Grow in confidence having challenging conversations with parents. I think I am ready to push myself out of my comfort zone as a teacher in that area with my classroom families this year. If I have learned anything this year it's that confrontation is ok sometimes. 3. Be happily marrieeeeeed! :D

Continue to be a good husband and father. I really feel that is my main goal at this point in life.

I hope that I have fulfilled my potential as a teacher for the group of students with whom I just started--facilitated a year of truly wonderful learning experiences for them.

I would like to be well on my way to owning my own business, far away from Pomona Valley Hospital. I want to be finished with aesthetician school and building my Medspa clientele. I would like to empower women, or men for that matter to, to feel confident in their own skin. This is important to me because I want to contribute to a lifestyle that affords Woody and I to do what we love doing. I want to spend our time traveling around the world, trying new foods, drinking all the drinks, doing all the drugs, having all the sex, and jumping out of planes. I have worked myself silly my entire life. I want to make a difference in peoples lives, including ours.

I want to go into private practice. I think I have something different to offer. I want to show myself I can do it. And I want to be able work differently

I will find a way to empower and embrace what energy means to me and how I achieve optimal energy and peace with the parts of me that are slower than my mind. It is important to me because my energy levels have been different since my battle with cancer, and I've learned how valuable it is by staying in the process versus thinking it should be different.

I want to be in a place where I feel peace and balanced.

By this time next year, I want to have enough savings that I can cut up my credit cards.

A connection with my kids wherein we have communication that keeps us open to each others curves and edges and loving each other through it all.

I’d like to figure out a way to contribute to clean energy—something big like a career move, or something small that we can do personally. During my time off in May I looked into solar and heat pumps, each of which had challenges in our home situation. But I must do something.

Next June I’m taking over as Chair of my area Jewish Federation. I would like to start off my presidency in a positive way and be seen as a strong and capable leader. I need to get more committed to whatever it is I’m doing, whether for work, volunteering, or my family and friends. I would also like to work harder at being a good husband.

I would like to be actively and openly fighting against the adoption industry. This is important to me because it has rapidly become my deepest held belief, and I have not yet been able to integrate it into my life.

Same as last year - I'd like to know what my long term goal is. Middle school? University prof? Game designer?

I would like to regain the excitement and reward of my spiritual work - Mussar, Aging to Saging etc. I feel like I’m just going through the motions. Part of it is my general feeling tired. Part is that I don’t feel new insights or discoveries. I’d like to wake up that part of me.

I am taking a stand against this question - not that I think it should be removed necessarily, but I am not going to answer it this year. This year I need to survive and I need to make sure my family survives. I refuse to set expectations for myself beyond that. I hope that in a year I feel differently, because I am more naturally a goal-driven person than a let-it-ride person, but that is where I am at this year.

Oh dear, again, nothing has really changed from what I wrote last year. Last year I said, and I will quote, I need to "slow down, to do less multi tasking, to smell the flowers." I really do want to focus on this more! Last year I also said that I am committed to "making my apartment the haven I want it to be. Yes, that means really going through the boxes, throwing things out, and organizing what is left better!" Didn't do any of that this past year and it really is important. I'd like to believe I'll be more committed to it this year!

Improved health.

I would like to be more clear on a living situation. I am a bit disappointed in not having a partner as well. Both a stable living situation and a life partner would help my mood. And I practice all I practice in case those don't manifest and I need to balance my mood on my own. I can do that -- I have done that. And, ...

I want to have settled in and be living a more laidback low-stress life in Spain. I really hope that I adjust to the challenges well and have good balance as I settle into our new home.

Launching Third Space (successfully). It's the thing the team and the family have been working on for so long. I want the space to run smoothly, for people to feel safe and inspired when they come in, and to be growing the depth of our impact step by step. Personally, I'd like to feel really stable and grounded in Bombay. I want to be on track with training for a full marathon, and I want to have learnt to sew (basic stuff).

I'd like to achieve something that is newsworthy to a major secular news outlet. This would give me the street cred I need to go out and get more and more support for my organization.

Getting a job and a girlfriend. Because I'm heading in the fals directions, if not.

I need my relationship settled. That likely means divorce and I am single again, but I will accept whatever outcome is best for me. This is pretty simple. It is a huge source of stress and hurt for me and I will not allow this to continue. Repair might be an option and if it is, then it must happen. But I would rather be alone forever than be here, now.

So. Many things. Resuming my photography practice. Doing more paid writing. Generating more income. Traveling more. Visiting my kids.

I want to either have our house fixed up for the long haul, or sell it and be in the Tri-Cities area. My preference would be to have a place in JC, but I'm going to miss the country. And Nan will miss the country also. This is important to me because I want a place I can settle into and know that's my last move. I have never felt that way where we stay now.

I’d like to be an early riser and move my body more. I’d like to write something every day, and I’d like to perfect my access to my inner life, free of fear of disregulation. Still trying for a life well-lived.

By this time next year, I would like to have carried my own pack each day for 10 days hiking the GR 65.

Peace. Just chill about everything money, relationships, my body. Total hakuna matata vibes

I would like to think about my divorce and situation and not feel sad or angry anymore.

I would like to be back to about 165 pounds. I would like to be better shape with a stronger upper body like I was five or 10 years ago As part of my plan to have a long happy prosperous life. I also Would like to be more open and free and less judgemental and cynical and less possessive.

Find some ease inside my body. Continue to work on mobility, flexibility, strength, comfort. I want to feel good inside my body. I want to be able to be in and move in nature with some ease. I don't want to avoid doing things because I don't think my body can handle it (kayaking, mountains). Everything else is possible when I care for myself.

This time next year I want to have completed Delf B2 level. I want to have ridden a motorcycle across Sri Lanka, I want to have reconnected with old friends that are still relevant to my life, let go of others and made new friends for new parts of how I will live for the next 2-12 years.

I'd like to build a better relationship with my grown son and daughter. I watch my boundaries. I really try to be supportive, not intrusive. Still, it feels kind of strained. They laugh over childhood memories, often making fun of my limited cooking (they're right about that), my lack of interest in their athletic abilities (guilty), my failures to understand all their emotional needs (so what else is new?). I know there's plenty of love under the joking, and maybe some anxiety as they see me age before their eyes. But my husband and I, 10 years into retirement, could use a little more tenderness and affection from them. Thank God for grandchildren.

Be raising our baby in the best way I can, with lots of love, affection, and kindness.

If by this time next year I am not (even almost is OK) self-sufficient with my self-employed job, I will leave it, close everything and go back to a standard job. It is important to be clear with myself about this. It's: either you believe it or not rather than either you can or cannot.

Of all I will feel the greatest sense of relief for would be my ability to secure a positive living space for Jay. Our family has lived under the cloud of my moms illness as she brought a unhealthy individual to our life’s.Freeing Jay and us all from this cloud would be the most profound of all our blessings. May it be g-days will to show me the way.

I want to get another salary bump. I feel a lot of pressure to support my household since my husband will be a full-time student until December 2024, so it's important to me to work toward another salary raise (even just to keep up with inflation!) so we're not financially stressed until then.

Empty out all boxes in my bedroom and clean up all piles of paper in my office. Clean out all unwanted things from boys' rooms. This is important because I would feel much more peaceful if my space was not cluttered.

I’d like to have resettled in a new forever home. I’m looking forward to a place that will foster the coming phase of life for me and Elizabeth, and will offer us a nourishing environment in which to thrive

More than one but I'll take 2 if that's all I get. Financial freedom, strong body, worry free, good sleep

Be able to walk a mile. To feel like I can manage all these conditions and still be an active person. To feel progress!

I would LOVE to find more work. I’d even love to get that part-time library job. I’m feeling very failure-ish because I have next to no income coming in, and we are getting further and further behind. Something’s gonna give.

By this time next year I would like to have accomplished 2 things: 1) a new job OR a clear role and success in my current company 2) take the boys traveling around the world. At least one, hopefully 2 international trips and 2 new national parks! Both of these things relate to a desire to create a life of abundance and adventure, for myself and my family.

I hope to be a connected parent, spouse, family member, and friend. I hope to continue to rebuild a career that I love, and that allows me to be the person I want to be. And I hope to further cultivate the really beautiful anti-Zionist Jewish community that we have created, working toward true inclusion of all people, rejecting hypocrisy and racism and living in line with our values.

I would like to have more clarity in my life by this time next year. This time next year, Lord willing, both kids will be away at college. I don't know what my husband will choose - will he choose recovery and keep a spark of hope (small though it may be) alive for our marriage to survive, maybe grow; or will he choose to keep drinking. If he chooses the latter, what will I do? Can I trust Divine Mother & the universe, and jump into the financial insecurity that a divorce will entail as a means to achieve emotional freedom? So, by this time next year, I would like to have this uncertainty behind me, and if that is not God's will, I hope to have inner freedom to accept whatever God has in store for me

By this time next year, I want to finally lose that 50 lbs and fit into nicer clothes. I want to be able to wear my motorcycle jacket easily so I can go on rides with my husband again. I also want to be very strong and healthy and toned. I want to see my abs again!

I want to get back into a fitness routine that feels good. I had a great routine pre-covid and then just completely lost it along with the motivation when quarantine hit, and I never regained it. A workout routine is so incredibly important for my mental and emotional health--it keeps me sane and grounded and keeps my depression in check. I havent felt quite the same since I lost my routine.

Continue reading books ! I have not read books for my own purpose. Or had to since college! Such a great personal accomplishment.

By this time next year I'll be in my final semester of my MFA. By this time next year, I want to have a solid, workable, in-action plan for my life post-graduation. This includes either applying to a second MFA or PhD program in Korea, and/or plans for me to make the move there; having my creative projects up and running so I'm able to be creative and work from anywhere...namely Korea. This includes my own sources of independent income so I have the freedom to go wherever I feel called.

By this time next year, I would like to be back working in a Jewish museum. Over this past year I have realized deep within myself that this is where I am meant to be, where I am happiest, where my personal passion and story can meet with my professional skillset to make the world a better place. I feel encouraged about working at the only Jewish museum in Oregon after meeting and building relationships with their staff this year. I'm hopeful and looking forward to where I might go with them!

I’d like to be making more art on my own terms. I’d like to be making art that reflects my values. I’d like to be making art that makes others connect, relate, rethink.

I'd like to become a homeowner this year. I want to live in a place that I can actively shape into a better space for myself.

I want to travel someplace beautiful with my husband for at least a week. I don't want to wait until we are old and infirm to do something that means so much ot us.

It would be great to have continued to foster safety and intimacy in my relationship. I hope we will have had a sweet, memorable time celebrating our love. This is important to me because few things rival partnership, we've grown so much, and Im dedicated to continuing to invest in our little family.

I would like to learn how to accept myself as I am. I want to be okay with how loud and outgoing I am and I want to learn how to love myself for who I am regardless of what others think. Because there are a lot of things that I really love about myself that I often criticize myself for because I am too worried about what others think of me. I hope that I will be unapologetically myself and love myself for it. This is important to me because loving myself is necessary for any success I might seek life, whether personal or professional or other.

I'd like to have gone through all of our possessions, organize them, and give or throw stuff away. I have too much stuff, and a lot of it has been sitting in boxes for decades. I obviously don't need much of it, and I really doubt any of my kids will want it either. I need to feel like my possessions aren't tying me down. But, first, I have to finish emptying out my parents' house and doing the same with their things.

I want to have completed the manuscript of my children's novel and begun seeking a publisher. I have the vision and the talent to implement my vision, and there's no reason other than my own self-doubt and inhibitions for me not to have accomplished this goal. This is important because although I have much to feel good about, this has become a nagging sore spot in my self-image. I need to push past these self-imposed obstacles in order to feel like my life is where it should be.

I would like to have worked at lincoln for at least 1 full year and ideally I will have done the Pop Health job for 1 full year. I really love working at lincoln and I want to develop and grow myself there. I want to be part of growing the pop health department too. I think this experience will be paramount for future jobs I want down the line. I hope that a year from now I have a better idea of what I am looking for and whether or not I want/need to go back to school. To get there, in the next year I will do a bunch of informational interviews and I will also reach out to the various programs I am considering to better understand what they are and how the degree could serve me

I would like to have a better balance in my life. I’m not at all certain that I want to remain in my present job. But I don’t want to retire and have nothing to do. (Other than, perhaps, getting rid of so much stuff that fills my house.) I want to do something with meaning, something that gives back to my community. Does this mean volunteering with organizations that reach out to help address poverty and inequity? Becoming more active in the many programs of my synagogue? Something else that is not on my radar? I don’t know the answer and there may be several answers. I hope by 5784 I will have some answers or ideas of what happens next.

I would very much to continue with the exercise regime and watching my food intake. I want to regain my strength and endurance. It would be nice to be able to walk longer distances, maybe even attend demonstrations and marches. Why is this important? I want to feel better. I want to be able to do more. I want to be stronger.

By this time next year, I would have liked to ride my bike from Michigan to California. This journey is a restart and a refresh. It will be the greatest adventure of my next chapter! Its important because I am a women of my word and I think G-d has me here to inspire people that they can do anything!!

I want to be back in India - living, doing whatever I choose to be doing as far as work, or experiences. India is my 2nd true home and I cannot wait to go back! I want to be trim and fit - healthy physically and mentally. Carrying all this extra weight has proven just too tiring!

I’d like to ride my kids to school on the electric bike. It’s a long ride but I’ve wanted to try it now that my body is healthy enough I look forward to having the courage to try to do it next spring or summer.

By this time next year, I hope to have become a peer support counselor. This will help me live more and more in alignment with my vocation. And if I haven’t yet done it by then, I’ll still honor my own process and pace. I’m doing all I can to live in accordance with this way of being.

So I guess I want to be at a new job or function, starting something that excites me again, where I feel appreciated (by myself and others). I want to have jumpstarted my brain and feel sharp again. Its important to me to be able to have projects and self-development of my own.

I want to get married. Well, that’s the “joke”. But seriously, I want to get involved in a long-term serious relationship. I want to build (or rather, keep building on) the foundations for a future in which having a family is not a dream but a plan.
 More practically, I want my maps project to be on the next level. To expand what I’ve been doing, to automatise, to create a framework for others to create their own maps. Or at least that I could make maps for them in a more streamlined manner.
Developing this matters because it connects me with my passions, and connects them to each other. Images, anthropology, Text, Jewish studies and my passion for teaching/learning and sharing knowledge.

Find a new job that I love. Just to get out from where I am now, and to maybe start moving towards something I can be proud of. Perhaps even doing something artistically (writing, most likely). Hm, looks like last year I also wrote "maybe I should write a book" so boy, maybe I REALLY should write a book.

I'd like to get back into playing guitar and become more creative with music and improve my playing. this is a side of me that has been dormant for some time and needs expression.

I really want to improve at communicating with my partner. I want us to have a strong, lasting relationship that will see us through changes in our lives but I need to be more forthcoming and vulnerable in order to see that through.

I want to have become more involved in political organizing and/or community organizing and/or mutual aid. I feel like something I’m missing right now is a political purpose and a way to enact my politics instead of just having them. I’m hoping to either finally become more involved in DSA, or volunteer for a campaign, or do food distribution, or otherwise put my feet where my mouth is. Politics that just stay inside my head don’t mean much; I want to put them to use.

I would like to regularly and truly practice self care in the sense that I do some physical and emotional work every week that is self guided. I want to love myself again. I want to even model self love for those around me.

I am aiming to finalise the cleanup of my house and garden. I am about 50% there but need to dig in and finish off my de-cluttering. I want to live in a clean, tidy and calm environment without having an excess of “things” weighing me down.

Improved wellness. My physical and mental health has taken a back seat to caring for my family and satisfying the demands of my clients. A year from now, I would like to be physically fit, feel rested, and in top form.

I would like to be on my way to becoming a parent (or maybe even already a parent, if we are lucky?) by this time next year. I have always wanted to be a mom, and I am so excited to finally be at the stage of life where we are ready to walk down that path.

One thing? - A partner? - Still in my job and going well? - Close to buying a place If I had to choose one, and assuming everything else is going well, I think it would have to be in a good relationship. I'd love to be planning a future with someone. I'd also love to meet someone where I can decide "once and for all" if I'm having kids. Over thinking about that one!

I’m still struggling to “birth” my book, The Power of Connectedness. A friend suggested that, rather than decide if it will be a how to guide peppered with stories from my life or a memoir from which the lessons emerge, I could write both at same time (i.e.: when stories come bubbling out of me, they go into the memoir; when concepts call for me to flesh them out, they go into the guide). I took this advice but still vacillate between needing a structure to feeling comfortable writing pieces that I’m viewing as patches which I later can decide how to weave them together into a quilt. I made a big decision to take a year-long sabbatical from other work projects to focus on writing. So, I hope that by this time next year, I will have advanced on writing one or the other or both books. As this project has been percolating with me since 2016, fingers crossed that I achieve that. I feel that this will be my legacy gift to the world.

I hope to have my meds situation more sorted out. And be more attuned to my family. Learn new ways to listen with empathy. See my family as potential problem-solvers instead of problem-havers who I have to solve. (that "who" is intentional.)

I would like to be budget bucketing so that I have savings for the various things that I want to do/have. Specifically to be able to travel and put a down payment on a house. Although part of this is my need to conform (still breaking out of this) I want to have more financial security and not rely on others so much. Plus I thrive on seeing new things, meeting new people.

I would like to find someone for whom i AM important and make me feel like that. And fall with each other madly in love. For the first time in my live i want the fairytale story, to live with someone, with trees and flowers and animals in a beautiful house in the countryside.

I would like to have a couple--few, one?--deeper friendships. Because life is lonely without real friends to share it with. I would like to become a better guitar player. Because making music is a wonderful and productive way to spend time. Even if you are just adequate at it. I would like to teach more flamenco students. Because they make me happy and I know I am giving something valuable and they are unlikely to forget out time dancing and learning together.

I’d like to have a bought a new really good king size mattress and bed with the support that can take Jeff’s weight So Jeff and I can have space but cuddle and animals have room.

This is a year that requires a reappraisal of aspirations and goals. A quick calculation based upon actuarial tables of lifespan suggests that 88% of my life is now in the rear view mirror. Doesn't feel like it, and there may be more gas in the tank than statistics imply. Still, it's time to admit many desires at this point will remain unfulfilled. This is a hard reality. I've wasted so much time and have lived a 'Walter Mitty' existence--kind of a legend in my own mind. C'est la vie.

I would like to get my second book, A Poetic Summer released and to begin the process of creating the third book of the four Poetic Seasons. This is important to me, as I've been weighing what direction to take with my writing and I can't seem to see further than just posting my poems to Instagram every day.

Just managing to be resilient in the face of the next year's happenings will be an accomplishment. I am not sure Joe will be here next year, or we may be very close to the end, depending on how the next treatment options go. If some sort of miracle or at least respite happens, I will feel I have achieved something if I get into the studio as a regular practice in this new life of not-working-for-others (I dislike the word "retirement") and open my heart to my work, my exploration and my personal expression there. And then and then, have a sense of where it will go out into the world.

To have completed the Mindfulness Learning Year and also to have done more in depth study of watercolor. I want to make these two areas a focus for my year. Mindfulness - because I believe it will help me become a better person. Watercolor, because I enjoy it and would like to become a better artist.

I’d like to have the front damage of my car repaired. At the very minimum that front headlight. Apparently it could cost me $300 or more because I have to replace the headlight and the housing instead of replacing a lightbulb as I had done previously. I have been stressed about gathering the money to have repairs made. I am reducing my budget as much as I can

I always say this, but get into better shape physically, eat more balanced meals (like including actual vegetables). I am in the middle of a big re-landscaping project, which I look forward to completing so I can feel proud of my home again. Then I need to tackle the junk inside the house.

I would like to feel like I am contributing meaningfully to the world. For good or bad, I define myself through how I am contributing. I hope I will find a way to feel fulfillment in this area again.

I would like to create a flower and vegetable garden at the Northfield house. This is important to me because my husband and I like to eat food that we have grown ourselves as much as possible as well as food purchased from local farms and growers. We feel that the future demands that we eat locally and sustainably and we, as a nation, will have to eliminate the shipping of food long distances away from the source.

Efficient and effective project completion in many areas of my new job. I truly enjoy being excellent at what I do, and being an upper-level contributor in my team. This is the first time in a long time that I have a significant climb to achieve this. I love learning new things!

I'm not sure what my answer is. I'm usually planning to be in another job or have new friends or feel more secure in the world. And right now, I'm feeling pretty content with where and who I am.

I would like to have the LLC and our wills done by this time next year. It is important to have these things done without inordinate pressure.

This is a great question, but not one I feel the need to answer this year. This year, the year of 2022 / 5783 (looked that one up), I fulfilled a lifelong dream. I have this vivid memory of standing outside my middle school cafeteria and saying I wanted to be a pediatrician to someone for the first time. I don't remember why it came up, but I remember landing on that decision because I liked science class and I liked kids (I had always wanted a little sibling to mentor). For years, I kept the idea in my mind but never fully committed, wanting to be okay if life took me in another direction. But it never did. There were so many more roadblocks than I expected, of course. There were times where I thought the thing I did or the score I got would immediately disqualify me from the dream. I was rejected from medical school and had to reapply. I had so many hardships throughout the past 5 years both leading into and during medical school, and there were so many times I considered taking time off to be with my family in times of need. But here I am, 17 years past 12 year old me, 4 years after starting medical school, and I'm on the other side of it. Don't get me wrong, I still have years to go in my training, but I'm on the other side of "can I do it?" This year, I am finally doing it. I am living my dream. I spend everyday complaining about administrative bs in a healthcare system and yet, each kid I get to treat or see or talk to, each parent I talk to whose worries wash away and relief sets in on their face, each crying child I get to smile: the oxytocin surges through my veins and reminds me that I was right all along. This year, I experienced some of the best days of my 30 years on this earth, and I choose to reflect on those instead. For the first time in my life, I am satisfied and truly proud of my accomplishments. So in this upcoming year, I'll allow myself to bask in that pride until reality hits on next year's reflection.

I recently began learning to play the recorder. I enjoy it because I've never played a wind instrument before and I can hear my progress day by day. My goal would be to finish the recorder method book that I am working through by this time next year. I feel great after finishing two chapters, so I should feel amazing after page 184! And be pretty damned good at playing the recorder. ^_^

I want to find peace and solitude in living my life alone. It's painful to read my answer from last year because I don't feel like much has changed in my life at all. I don't know how long it's going to take me to recover from this heartbreak. Aside from this... I hope to travel, work remotely, and grow as a person. I might end up in Toronto? Or maybe back in BC? There's a lot of uncertainty but I'm certain I will take this year with excitement and positive energy.

As always, better financial position. Improving the health of my family (including the house). Helping my community be less focused on what separates us and more focused on what unites us.

I would like to lose another 30 pounds. I have done so well. This has been such an empowering process. I stabilized my weight at 65 pounds down and have varied up or down 5 pounds, which is an amazing fete! I want to see how thin I can get.

I think I want to be proud of my professional decisions by this time next year. If I stay at USAID, I want to have something that I can demonstrate tangibly that it was worth it to stay. If I go to IKEA, I want something that shows that that career move was worth it in the long term. I also don't want any of the non-professional things to go away. I don't want to lose Eli, irrespective of what I choose.

I want to simplify: free myself of mental and physical weights so that my heart is able to expand into the spaces that I have freed up. What this will look like: less clothing, less emails (have already started to unsubscribe!), shorter emails, purposeful communication - get my message across quickly and with limited superfulous communication. Also - cleaning out - closets, the office, the attic. A little every week so that by this time next year - my house, my head and my home will feel lighter, more open. I also want to be more focused and effective - turn-off text and email notifications when I am working. More block times. Use the notes function on my computer/phone. Be more purposeful in my use of social media - use it for my business, for Broad River, for missing cats, and that is all. Not scrolling through mindlessly. And - I am recommitting to both a hike of the month AND a museum of the month

Get married :) because we put money down on a venue for June 11, 2023 so if we don't go through with it something will have gone terrible wrong! That of course represents the wedding though and not the marriage. There are a number of steps I'd like to take to ensure our marriage gets off on a strong foot. I want to meet with a financial planner, I want us to find a Jewish community we both feel invested in. I want to explore pre-marital counseling. I want us to have honest conversations about his parents' divorce and how that affects how he feels about our marriage.

I will finish my write up of the genealogy that I have done this year and my trip to Lithuania very soon. That work is very important to me and I will be curious to see what (if anything) people think about it. I want to continue getting more comfortable and having more fun with the piano.

Find my way to the next stage of my life where there is time to travel, meditate and do rewarding work

To be psychologically flexible. To be able to see and experience my emotions with gentle compassion. I want to be a source of peace and comfort in myself. I want to extend that skill outward to people around me.

Here we go again...financial independence. Especially if I decide to divorce my husband. It really seems like that is the direction it's heading.

I'd like to declutter my home and make it more efficient.

This year I am following Chris by throwing down the gauntlet to my future self: this time next year, I would like to have left Hertford, established a freelance income and started to train as a counsellor or a coach (or both, who knows!) I just can't face being stressed and anxious and worried for the rest of my life. I am also feeling increasingly disillusioned with the concept of philanthropy (or, more accurately, philanthro-capitalism) - it should not be up to me to redistribute wealth! If we lived in a fair and equitable society, people like me wouldn't need to exist, and it's just getting a bit harder for me to go about my business without feeling like a bit of a fraud. Although mainly it's the stress and anxiety thing.

I want to achieve one stripe on my jiujitsu white belt. This is important to me because I feel so awkward doing this sport as a total newbie and as someone whose main sports are completely unlike this one, and I really need the boost of confidence that I can persevere through feeling like I don't belong until I accept that I do.

I want to finally know Hebrew. I have been wanting to do it so long. And I feel as a Jewish individual I must know this.

God, I don't know. I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing with the next few years of my life, let alone the rest of it. I'd like to get some sort of wine certification to further my current path but I'm not sure if this is something I'm going to be doing forever.

By this time next year I would like to have gone back to work and navigated what it looks like for me to be a working mom. I want to make sure I continue my education and get my master's degree and continue to work in the meantime as a Cantorial Soloist and move my career forward. I keep being told that all my priorities will change, and I understand that they will, and that's why I say "navigate." I know I can't possibly anticipate what life will be like once the little guy arrives. But I know that I have another calling as well, to share sacred music with my community and be a conduit for their spiritual practices, and I won't give that up even if things get busy and crazy. I have support. I don't have to do everything on my own.

I want to accept and love myself where I am, with whatever I have accomplished. I want to achieve a sense of surrender, real surrender where I let go and let god, spirit, my higher self... take the wheel and trust that I am heading in the right direction. I have spend too many years (decades) thinking I should accomplish this or that and then beating myself up when it doesn't happen exactly as I thought it should. I'd like to stop doing that.

I want to feel confident in my job. I want to feel like I've gotten the hang of it, and am still being challenged, but in a way where I can still hold onto my self-confidence. I hope that I've developed thicker skin as well.

I hope to be on my way to a new career, or being successful in my EA career. I'm really not sure which that will be, but I trust the process I'm going through to get there.

I'd like to have a child, whether we're fostering or have successfully adopted. Maybe children, if there's a sibling pair we decide we can take on. I feel like we're at a good place to be able to make it work, and I don't want to keep waiting.

Finish the landscaping and clean up all the pieces of lumber,etc. I would like to enjoy orderliness - because it has a calming effect.

I would like to speak at least marginal Hebrew. It will assist with my entry into Judaism.

Only one? I want to get back to guiding. I want it to be my primary income and I want it to balance with my family life and schedule. I want to be happy and fulfilled in my profession.

I just picked up my first ever D&D module and am going to try DMing for the first time! I hope I have or have had some kind of campaign going and that I'm decent behind the screen.

Homeownership. I want to have purchased and be living in my first home. It's about damn time!😉🥂🤫😊

Sigh. This question is hard because I feel like I've always responded so hopefully in the past, to no avail. But, I'm still a big dreamer and now I'm trying to become a big doer; so here goes. By this time next year, I would like to be debt free (except for my car and lifeline) and, most importantly, be doing something I love for work and learning a new trade. I need to push myself, and I will. I'm tired of being tired. I'm done with being unhappy and unfulfilled and feeling like I'm stuck at a dead end. I can make a u-turn, go back to the nearest intersection, and choose a different path. I'm ready.

I’d like to have my student loans paid off by this time next year. I’ll miss out on the limited Biden relief, but I can do it myself in less than a year. I’d like to have this debt burden forever removed and start putting that money toward my future instead.

I just want to be authentically me every day...not persuaded to be less than or more than I am for anyone, while still reaching toward becoming my best self without reservation.

I'd like to have a much better handle on my physical challenges. I want to be able to do things that I used to do, with moderation of course, and better enjoy each day. This is important to me because I want to live as full a life as I can with the time I have left.

By 2023 I'd like to acheive breaking ground on the adu in the back yard with a loving life partner soul mate. This is important to me because I'd like to leave a legacy of housing and create something that no one has seen before. Making the invisible visible.

Having the house settled. Being settled in our new location. Establishing new routines that work for the here and now. I feel so stressed out by the chaos that surrounds us right now.

I'd like to be SBC certified by next year, as I've been working towards it for the whole year and absolutely kicking ass. Also, I'd like to move with Taylor to a different apartment, for the achievement for both of us. I'd also like to increase my savings from 10k to 20k.

Lots of art made and letters written. The things I always want to do and freeze up/perfectionize. Starts now! bc why live any other way? let people know how you love them and how you see the world. make things, make things that make people happy, make things that the process of doing so is meditative and interesting and grounding. commit to yourself, actually, finally.

Good grief it's the same as last year. And I've probably worried about it every day, or almost every day. So I need to get a health agent so I can finalize my health agent paperwork. And make a new will, or add a codicil to the old one. And get some of the stuff out of the house. Cause there's no one to do any of that. Besides that, knit a nice sweater or coat, while my hands still somewhat work.

By this time next year I would like to own a Ford Transit type van equipped for going out camping. This is important because I like to see and do new things.

I want to take the two family trips that had to be cancelled. The one is with Max, and then the second is with the whole family. It’s importance is because bing with the family is after all the most important thing and travelling with them allows us to share some of the wonder of being in a different place. Hopefully one’s eyes then allow us to see so much wonder..

I would like to learn how to read music. I am a singer who never learned how to properly do it. I think with that knowledge so much more will fall into place and I can find a new love of music.

I want to figure out what I'm going to be when I grow up. I'm in the process of quitting my job as a religious professional. Maybe I'll return to practicing law, maybe something else. I hope the picture is clearer this time next year.

I know that this isn’t totally in my hands, but I would really love to have a baby by this time next year. My goal was to have one by NOW… but alas. If I can’t “Achieve” pregnancy, I at least hope to achieve inner peace with only having one child.

I want to be more comfortable with my sexuality. It's something I have definitely been more open with myself this year, which I am proud of. I don't want to measure this by any other person but myself (I don't want to say: I will have a significant other by this time next year!). But I just want to be more comfortable in my own sexuality, desires, and what I want, what feels good to me (and also being able to share this part of me with my family and friends).

I would like to get my career back on track, on a track of some kind. I spent the last six years focused on getting into grad school, and then I failed out and was unenrolled in less than three months. Now, I don't know what I'm doing. Should I reapply to the same program? A similar program at another university? Something completely different? Give up on my current career and look for a different path? I'd like to figure out what to aim for and work towards.

One step closer to retirement and living in the home my partner and I are building together. We are waiting for one kid to graduate and move out so that we an create a guest room and the completion of my office space and a few other factors are keeping from living there now. I hope that my home becomes a safe place for a young woman I have know for many many years - and when the time comes to sell I might but I am thinking I will add the property to m estate plan and donate to a local organization as transitional living for some of the participants. The fact that I don't have children to pass things down to makes this easy cuz I can't take it with me. It is important for me to give back anyway I can and if making life a little easier by offering my possessions than I can be that much freer.

Improve my health. It's important to me because I have a lot of medical problems that are not getting attention now, like depression, which keeps me isolated from friends and from my religious community. COVID has exacerbated this. I've also gained a lot of weight in the last two years, and I worry about that. And physical pain is a serious problem, not only because of fibromyalgia but because of an untreated broken kneecap, etc, which limits my physical activity, especially without my usual pain medication. I'm not the only one who is suffering because of that. The CDC has criminalized the prescribing of opioids and people are seriously suffering, to the point of suicide, because of unbearable pain. Thank G-d I'm not that far gone, but there are days when it has crossed my mind-- the depression, the pain, and the weight gain, have brought me down so low at times. So, by this time next year I want to be healthier and happier.

Better health. I would like to build muscles and stamina so that my health doesn't become more of an issue as I age.

Don't like this question. I will just continue to do the best I can and be the best version of myself every day. And not judge when that doesn't happen.

i want to go to temple more often. i did it a lot when i first started my conversion journey, but with covid, my autoimmune disorder, and my own general brainweirdness (neurodivergencies, anxiety, depression, executive function issues, etc.), i fell out of the habit. i miss going there. it really felt like coming home, as cheesy and maybe cliché as it sounds. also, learning to drive. it ought to make things a lot easier.

I’d like to be on a regular writing schedule that produces satisfaction. Wether that’s for my own enjoyment or as a paid column, it doesn’t matter. Well, enjoying it matters. :) But the regularity of it is what I am aiming for. The discipline of it. The effort. Why? Because that is the advice of every successful writer.

Know what you're doing next. That doesn't have to be a job (though that'd be nice too tbf), it doesn't even need to be something else productive, but you've gotta try having a goal. I'm so scared of finishing this degree and just dropping into that well I used to have nightmares about. We all know that Mum's right - if you want to try things you actually have to try them! Go ahead and fail, there will always be times when you do but isn't that part of the fun? Do you want to go traveling? Who are you living with? Are you happy? Try find your best guess at an answer and try working with it.

To have fully embraced the CSsquared life I want to live.

I think I'd like to have a clearer idea if not decision made about what I want to do between graduating/grad school/if there's going to be a break. There's a lot of options now and I find it hard to decide because my choice is constantly being swayed by factors that are also constantly changing. The thought of graduating early and hopping right to maybe LSE was so exciting to me when I was with Ben, but now it feels so rushed and the thought of making things move to fast I feel might end up being a mistake. I think I'll make the decision on if I find exciting opportunities and such but definitely a lot of possibilities that are very exciting but also scary.

I want to read 50 books by the end of the year. It is important to me because I think reading is a very good skill to have and I want to improve it.

Figure out my daily diet amd this oncludes what pills to take. Find my passion. Travel too

I'd like to weigh 85kg or less - preferably 80kg. I'm currently 91.6kg. I think I mentioned this in a previous answer, but I discussed my weight gain with a healthcare assistant during my annual check-up and she recommended trying the 5:2 fast diet to help lose weight and keep it off. I'd had success in 2020 with the 12-week NHS weight loss plan, which was basically just counting calories and recording my exercise. I found it motivating at the time, but counting calories wasn't sustainable. It has created some positive habits, including measuring portions more carefully and being more mindful about what I'm eating. But I nevertheless put on weight after I relaxed a bit more and went back to old habits. I think the main culprits for me are salty snacks and sweet things like chocolate, cakes and sweets; and toast and butter - comfort foods, which I crave when I'm feeling tired and low. We've tried not to have as many in the house recently and that has helped. I felt a bit chubby, but I'm feeling better now. It's important to me because staying at a healthier weight will help my long-term health - particularly my polycystic kidney disease. I don't want to end up like Gregory, on dialysis three times a week; or like Sandy, with a kidney transplant. That may happen to me someday, but I want to delay it for as long as possible. Being lighter will also make cycling easier. I also feel better in my skin and can fit into my two newer pairs of jeans. If I hit my target weight of 80kg, I can then probably only fast one day a week to maintain that weight. The fast days aren't that difficult, but I do look forward to the normal days when I can enjoy my food a bit more. I mean, the food can taste great on fast days - particularly greens with soy sauce, garlic and lemon juice. I'd also like to restore my savings by this time next year: have £10,000 tucked away in Premium Bonds and try not to touch it; and have enough in my Zopa savings account to cover any months when I haven't invoiced freelance work. Ideally, I'd like to have around £20,000 in savings, in total - including money put aside for my tax bills. I'm changing my habits slightly by putting away 15% towards my pension and 20% towards my tax bill. I didn't do this before. I'm also saving £500 a month into a regular savings account. I might not be able to afford that anymore - given the pension and tax pots. Maybe that's why I've had to dip into my Premium Bonds recently. But I did have a few expensive months with Fran's birthday and our holiday to Antibes. I also wasn't invoicing regularly for my freelance work, which inevitably means I have to use my savings. I'd also love to have got Crest Nicholson, our builder, to fix the rainwater harvesting system, which hasn't been working for most of the three years we've been living here. They also need to fix a problem with the cladding, which has been delayed, they say, because of a shortage of scaffolding. Those are the last two bigs faults with our house. I know we're past the 2 years where Crest Nicholson are supposed to be liable, but these are two issues that they knew about and didn't resolve within the two years. Ah, by this time next year, I'd also like to have finished reading through my list of books to read after Finals. I think I also mentioned that in a previous answer. I will feel a tremendous sense of achievement if I can do that. It then frees me up to read through my backlog of other books that I've bought or that have been given to me, which I keep on a shelf here in my study. There will always be books I want to read; but I also shouldn't lose sight of the fact that, when I bought these books, I wanted to read them, too! I need to read things when the mood is right, but it's also fun to rediscover what it was that made me buy the book in the first place. I get a real sense of satisfaction when working my way through longer tasks in stages. I am motivated by ticking things off my list and seeing the list get shorter. It feels like progress. Although it creates a sense of anticipation, of work in progress, of the unfinished, of restlessness, it also gives me a goal to aim for, to keep me reading and working towards something. I find that very rewarding. It will give me a sense of pride. It will also draw a line under that stage of my life so that I can move on from it. I guess by this time next year we will also have a new car. I think we're getting closer to making a decision on that. I've been thinking that it's probably best to live within our means as much as possible and just get the newer version of the Kia Niro EV - the new version of the car we have now. If we can keep the monthly payments similar to what they are now, then it will be affordable. We expect our heating and electricity bills may go up next year; and our mortgage may be more expensive when we come off the fixed rate in August 2024. We will probably switch to a new fixed rate deal - ideally for 5 years or so. I like having that stability, and I know Fran does, too.

I want to be physically stronger for maximum health.

I would like to get a better job.

Life is so circumscribed by not being able to walk or stand for long. Next year I'd like to be able to stand longer and do a little walking.

I would like to make at least one wallhanging which can be entered into shows. I would like it to show what I can do and be of my own design. I need to push myself to create instead of sitting back. I need to give myself permission to spend time on my hobbies.

I'd like to be able to step on the bathroom scale and not be horrified by the number I see. My inability to stay with and succeed in a weight loss program is disappointing and dangerous to my overall health.

I don't know.... and this in and of itself bums me out. I need to learn to do drone videos, as it will advance my career and add another skill to my skill set, but I have no joy or excitement for it, mainly because real estate drone videos are boring. I feel like I've kind of given up on ever doing any kind of lyra performance, and that bums me out. I'm feeling a profound lack of excitement and I'm not sure why this is or what it could mean.

Be in medical school doing my absolute best. Not forgetting my reasons for being there! Excelling but also balancing with impactful engagements!!

Since I am graduating grad school, I would like to be secure in my next career step. I am looking forward to seeing what the learnings from this year bring to help me determine my path.

I would like to finally do the decluttering I need to do which would give me surroundings that would have a more peaceful feeling.

I’d like to figure out what resources are available to get my spouse and son fully integrated into our new community and school. Both are struggling and I can’t seem to be able to help them. It’s difficult to sit on the sidelines especially because I’m not experiencing their difficulties b

Per last year I want to be consumer debt free again. I have paid off all of my consumer debt once before, but I didn't have a plan for what I wanted to do next and ended up getting into debt again. I am hoping to buy a house sometime in the next year, so I am not aiming to be entirely debt free, but I don't want to have any other loans or credit cards active. Although I am still motivated by wanting to help those around me, I also want to feel secure and have the ability to go on adventures with my kid without borrowing money.

I'd like to complete my bachelor's degree in Judaic Studies by this time next year. I'm going to add a second thing! I'd like to earn my CFRE qualification by this time next year. That's a couple of cool and righteous things!

I’d like to have released new music into the world that I’m truly proud of and that I feel is truly me. I’ve been working up to this moment for a long time, perhaps my whole life. While this is primarily for me, my highest vision is that the music resonated with others and that they feel something from it - joy, pain, confidence, inspiration, flow, fun, introspection, sensuality, love, the will to keep going if they’re in a hard place. Come escape your world and get lost in my music. My dream is to be able to do that for people.

The word choices weigh me down…is getting something done? off my to do list? is that achievement? So, my goal last year was for "reduction"—papers, files, stuff, clothes and I mentioned five pounds, too! The papers and files and stuff have been reduced only minimally. Oddly, without trying, my weight IS down a bit. Likely all the walking and commitment to treadmill. But I can't ascribe the word "achievement" to any of it. I still need to work on showing greater tolerance for truly minor irritations.

Professionally I would like to become a master teacher. This would place me at the top of my profession. Personally I would like to continue working toward becoming a better, more reliable man and husband.

I haven't achieved last year's goal yet. I'm still trying. By this time next year, I would like to have closed out Mom's estate, and still have siblings speaking to me. That will be over 18 months since she died. This should be achievable. And have her unveiling.

Be healthy and happy. Have good, strong relationships with my sons. Travel with my sister.

I really want to be out of this job and doing something that isn’t consuming my entire being so damn much. I’m still unsure what the next step will be but it has to be something rewarding and where my mental health isn’t under constant threat. I want to be in an environment that allows me time to be with myself and to find myself again and to appreciate life - and not be in a constant fight or flight mode.

Have a rough draft of the city book done. If I do, in fact, want to run for mayor, I have a tight timeline. And I think this book matters, so sooner rather than later.

We haven't made much headway toward adding the garage (we did have plans made), so I'll put that down for another year. I'm also hoping my Fulbright application and my sabbatical application are successful and I'm bearing down on some solid preparatory work for coffee research in Colombia.

I'm hoping my student loans will be written off by around this time next year. Some of my loans have already been written off, but the bulk of them remain. I should qualify in May 2023 so hopefully by September my balance will be zero. Then I can focus on paying down my house note and saving for retirement.

I really need to have finished my thesis. The extension has felt like a failure on my part, but I want to finish it. Wedding first, though... I would also like to have paid off a chunk of debt. I hate dragging it round behind me.

I would like to have a balanced music routine - something that has me writing/playing more often but feels sustainable. This is important to me because music makes me feel connected to the universe but it can take a lot of connective energy to happen, so routinizing it may help overcome inertia.

Better self care and adaptability to physical limitations.

Like I said last year, I would like to be in remission from the Lupus enough to start a yoga practice. That is my goal. I want to take a class at the local studio.

Staying in an LTR would be great. Arturo has been great in getting me out of the house more and giving Tallulah some freedom. So, I hope that continues.

I would like to achieve more equilibrium in my relationship with my son -- I have always feared that he might not love me, though I don't understand why, and it leads me to excesses of various kinds. I would also like to achieve more balance in my attitude toward my work. Not take things too personally. I would like to take at least one memorable trip. And finally, I would like to make some progress on the writing of my next book.

I would like to feel more confident in my ability to keep a good relationship. I've had a lot of anxiety and self-doubt about my ability to be a good significant other ever since my last breakup (which was two and a half years ago now). It's gotten better in the past year with my current relationship, but I still have work to do, both in being a good significant other and in trusting myself to be one. On a different note, I want to have a full-time job next year. This is more about ensuring I can afford food and housing than about personal development, but it's a big milestone nonetheless.

A new place to live. So I can be myself, relax and be friendly.It is important because of the toxic environment in my building and neighborhood because of politics. Many of my neighbors are gaslighting me, trying to make me doubt myself. It is important to me because I know who I am. I have lived most of my life in caring, friendly places and with great neighbors. We helped each other.

It's the same answer as every year . . . I'm rewriting GOSHEN again, and I want to have it in shape to send out to agents by this time next year. I wish I knew why this is so very important to me, but it always has been. Always.

Understand how to be happy with the life I have as opposed to wanting the life I don't have.

I'd like to have brought my GPA over 2.8. I really really really want to do well in law school, but more than that, I want the knowledge of law school to be able to help my legal career and make me comfortable heading into 3L. Right now I am still terrified that I'm doing horribly and could get dismissed at any minute. I want to get out of that fear and be able to just exist, knowing that I can work hard and it will pay off. Or that I can relax a bit. I want to be in law school this time next year.

I want to feel settled into our new home and have started developing even a little bit of community after a year there. I want to have taken active steps towards meeting people (synagogue shopping, attending local events, joining a book club or sports team, etc.)

A bit more financial freedom and always striving to have a better relationship with my family.

Have my garden back in shape. That will show I'm in shape again after my surgery. I want to grow a large part of my food at least one of the years before I pass on.

Another poetry collection published…or two? Happily painting away…finally? Feeling 25% better and stronger physically? Sustained peace of mind? Well, that last one will be the most challenging in a world gone mad. I know there are good people with generous hearts who are willing, even called, to put their shoulders to the wheels of our challenges. Maybe what I need to achieve this year is putting my faith in them, my shoulder to that wheel.

I think I'm still working on the professional transition goals I listed last year -- so reconfiguring my commitments, getting some sense of a plan for my post-sabbatical time, wrapping up the search for a new director, getting the handbook work done. But just writing that reminds me of how much my life still centers on work. In part, that reflects significant comfort with the other parts of my life -- there's little that I feel a strong need to change or work on. But it also reminds me of how the very idea of achievement or even purpose remains for me centered in work. And how will I make sense of my life when I'm done working?

I hope to have completed the first draft of a new collection of poetry. I find it particularly hard this year to set a firm goal. I am really concerned about the rise of extremism in this country, and I worry about the states in Europe that have turned fascist. Survival to next year seems like a triumph.

By next year I would like to have a good handle on my ability to retire within ten years. Am I able to? I am 55 and don't even have a Roth IRA set up. I have a pension but I don't know how much I will get ten years from now. This is so important to me because I don't want to be destitute when I'm older. I should have begun saving decades ago. I also want to know if I should be a homeowner or not.

By this time next year, I would like to feel like I know what I'm doing professionally. I have spent this year unemployed for the first time since I was 15 years old. I have enjoyed the past two months knowing that there was a job ahead of me, but I do not want to be in this position again until retirement.

The book!!!! Wouldn't it be great if by this time next year it was completed, published, promoted, and successfully selling? What an achievement that would be!

This is a hard question, in part because there are some big goals that I need to work on, work related (such as going up for promotion) and personal (such as improving my financial literacy and planning) for which I believe are important but I am not quite ready to commit to. However, I am going to set two goals here: For several years, I have been really trying to engage in deep work. I have tried a million ways to do this and none have truly been successful. I sometimes feel like I go through may day solving a million problems at work without focus on what really matters. And there are real pressures that could eventually lead to our closure. So right now I am trying this new scheduling system. I just started it last week. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't. But I have to keep trying until I am spending blocks of my day advancing all the goals I have in my big list. The other thing I would like to achieve is an exercise habit each morning, while at the same time getting to work by 830. Again this is something I have been trying this semester. Weights MWF, and walking TTH and weekends. I also would really like to my health and eating in a more mindful way. Especially in relation to overeating...I have made huge progress on those bad habits but not quite enough. I still fall into bad habits when I am stressed (after work), during lunch, at dinner. I want to disconnect the emotion from nourishment. Although it is much less than I used to, I often turn to food when I am frustrated, board, or dealing with uncomfortable problems...it is so reflexive. Really getting to a place of detachment from those feelings, would be extremely helpful to achieving some of the other goals I desire. In some ways the goal is less about food and more about achieving a greater comfort with uncomfortable feelings and breaking the link between the cycle of feelings, habits and behaviors.

at 67 there are not so many annual goals. I want to be fully retired by this time next year. I wan to be farther down the road of cleaning out this house

I think what I said last year is spot on. I am going to keep on laughing more, fearing less, and being honest. Not to be afraid of people for their judgments anymore.

I'd like to have a new knee with PT completed and the ability to hike three miles.

Plant a tree. Never done it before. Might as well.

I’d like to learn a new skill of experience something new. It’s important to me as a life long learner and as a naturally curious and driven person. Changing habits is hard especially as I get older and part of it is proving that I can still do it. The other part of it is that I’d prefer to only be doing things that I actually want to do in my spare time. If something like competitive tennis is not making me enjoy life than I shouldn’t do it. But at the same time, I shouldn’t just be lazy and watch more tv. I am not sure what the new thing will be but I could imagine getting into the midi keyboard thing Owen told me about at harvestivus. I just want any time remain open-minded and opportunitistic.

Develop my own routine. I USED to have a routine, pre-MG, and pre-running all over the Carolinas. I function best with a system. I need to make it somewhat portable, since I am still on a hamster wheel with travel. I've suggested we stay a minimum of 7 days at each trip. I've struggled with 2 days here, 4 days there, 3 days yonder. I don't enjoy living out of a suitcase. So ultimately, a smoother, more organized lifestyle will be much healthier and happier for me..

Write a daily column on substack.com that I've already started and by next year, use these columns to create my book. Both are about "what could be" if we worked together and collaborated instead of finding a reason to divide.

I’d like to be in a place where my therapist breaks up with me. To be in a healthier place with food choices, my body, my past, and so much more. I’m not ashamed of therapy or the fact that I’m working through these things but having a therapist break up with you is the ultimate indicator that you’re in a good place and have the tools you need.

In the coming year, I want to speak up about creating cultural change in our community. We have been cultured to allow bad behavior to exist in management and it is important to work towards changing the culture. So many have to provide for themselves and their family and it is not safe to speak up against those who behave badly. We are enablers. Everyone is responsible. I implore everyone to join me. One may wonder why I am not including my name - it is because there are people who don't believe that battle we are in despite the data. Read the data! Protect Jewish professionals! Elevate women, elevate culturally diverse professionals! This is what I am committed to and hope that next year, I can say that I made a difference.

I'd like to do more travelling, while young enough. We have the truck and the trailer (although the trailer cuts in half the distance we can go in the all-electric Rivian truck).

There are several one-year goals I have, but the top three: 1. Have my financial life under control 2. Lose 50 pounds 3. Get baptized

I'd really to downsize to the point of a comfortable minimalism. I have too much stuff, too many books, too many clothes. I've managed to downsize a bit and it gives me such pleasure to look around to a clear surface, a sparse shelf, an empty drawer. That's why it's important - I feel there's more air to breathe and I really like it.

I want to feel like I am still worthy of a relationship. This makes me feel like I have moved on, that I truly am complete.

I'd like to be doing one active thing per week. That can be going to a dance class or going for a hike or a run or paddleboarding or whatever. And perhaps more importantly, I want it to get to the point where it doesn't seem like an event but just normal life. I figure starting small is how you start.

I feel I am past due on the health routine. This will be my priority starting now.

I'm two weeks away from getting back onstage -- it feels too premature to say anything more about what that will precipitate in my life. I need to just keep living that story, and analyze it afterward, and let that organically build the environment around me. I'd like us to keep improving upon our financial position. I'd like to feel we've got a good plan for going foward -- impossible to know what that will mean in these circumstances but there's nothing wrong with that. I trust we will continue to figure it out, as we always have. I'd like to keep going on the curve I've been following since I wrote these answers last year. Feel more beautiful, celebrate myself more, enjoy my gifts more. I'd like to more and more fully honor all of my talents -- in performance, in creation, in how I serve and help people, in what I offer to the world and to each space I occupy. These aren't solid achievements but at least where I stand right now, they feel the most realistic things I can set my sights on. Maybe I could set my sights on nailing down some goals? Maybe these are goals enough.

What kind of achievement? Spiritual growth. Closeness to God. Grateful from the core. A feeling that if I took in any more of God's grace and love, I might explode.

With a demanding new job and moving I feel like I've achieved so much lately that my goal is to not achieve anything big outwardly, but to take care of myself: to be more fit, relaxed, and centered. That could include finding more time for my own personal creativity: writing a few more chapters of my memoir, maybe 2-3 (being realistic for a change). And maybe upgrade my camera and/or lens, plus experiment more with the tripod.

I’m about to graduate so by this time next year I would like to be stable. Financially, emotionally, socially… I’m pretty anxious about this transition and I really don’t want to crash and burn.

Launch my Hiking Club (from last year's 10Q list)! Develop the Atomic Habits to get this and other cool projects moved to the "Done" list.

Along with continuing my quest to help others get healthier-including myself- I want to have deepened at least one friendship.

Unfortunately basically same answer as last year. Don't have to have a girlfriend but hope I will have gone on couple dates and started this process. Would like to feel hashems presence in my life and by my side every moment. Would like to have clarity to what I plan to do with my career

My first full year of consulting was so successful, and then this year has been so much less so. I was warned that one of the challenges of consulting is the boom and bust, and I still feel like it's the right choice for me for now. I need to get clearer on what I most want to do, and figure out how to get more gigs that are in that vein - I have had to say yes to everything this year but I want to clarify what I most want and find new ways to get it. I also want to do at least one project with someone else! And travel again, as always.

I will have a new right knee and will be thus able to do a lot of the things I'm hoping to do next year, including travel to visit friends.

I'd like to be comfortable at work, not working as many extra hours, and not feeling that my job is in jeopardy. I'd like to have a better relationship with my VP and director.

I would like to be more organised and stop leaving things to the last minute, as that becomes very stressful. I would also like to be tidier and declutter the house. It is too messy to have visitors without constantly apologising for the mess.

I hope that by this time next year I will have organized a little adventure for myself. Maybe being a radio DJ in Alaska, maybe shooting educational videos in Sweden, but definitely I want to be somewhere else for a little bit.

financial stability and abundance that is in flow and joy... creative and connected with joy and the flow of life!

Oh God. I'd like to be more secure and sure of things. I'm excited and interested to see what comes next. I'd like to have a new job with better hours that I don't have to worry about working from Oregon. I'd like to have explored independent work options and tried to build towards becoming more of an independent worker. I'd like to be more secure in myself. Just a lot of things.

I would like to achieve more independence for my child, which would allow me to get back to some parts of me that i've been unable to be and explore this year.It's important because some of these elements help to make me, keep me, who I am and want to be and they lift my spirit and sense of self. Eventually, I want to take my babe along, but that's not generally possible or smart at a young age. By this time next year, I hope that Alex and I have backpacked at least once, that I've been able to return to some social justice work when applicable, and that i've been able to hang with friends at night without watching the babe. Additionally, I know work is changing, but i'm not exactly set on how yet but I know by this time next year something new will be achieved in some way shape and form.

By this time next year, I hope to have rehabed my body so that I am more resilient and not as prone to injury. There are so many things I want to do: travel, participate in theatre, participate in filmwork, dance. I don't want to sit on the sidelines.

By this time next year I hope that I will have had a nice summer. I hope that I have been able to work in a research lab in Europe (that is my goal at the moment) and I also hope that I went back to India for a month. I hope that I had a strong and productive academic year, with good grades and research output. I also hope that I have made some good friends and maybe even had some romantic encounters or have fallen in love. In my mind at the moment is this idea of Abhishek. I wonder if I should just marry him. I feel his presence in my life as so grounding, reliable, and loving. I know that we could do that thing. My questions are about how that could look for our futures. In thinking about going back to India next year, seeing him and maintaining our connection is a main driver for me. I wonder what I will feel/know about this by next year.

I would like to either take on more responsibilities in my current job or move on to another, more progressively responsible, medical coding/billing position. Even though I always say that I want stability, I don't mean that I want to stay in the same position forever. What I want is to stay in a position long enough that I could get really settled, and then gradually start to expand on my skills. I want my days of getting laid off or fired to become a thing of the past.

Be at peace where I am in that moment. This year brought epic derailments, anguish, and wonderment as I became aware of the emotional burdens I’ve been carrying.

I just read last year’s answer, and my goal was to be a writer first and a wealth manager second. I didn’t do that exactly, and I am no longer a wealth manager. I took the leap and graduated from wealth management. I am grateful for doing that, and proud of myself for taking the plunge when the path of least resistance was to stay. My goal for the next year is to be still. To take some real time to meditate, walk in nature, and take some time away from the daily push for activity. I want to explore new activities, catch up on some movies and shows, and treat myself to doing what I want to do. I want to write, but out of an inner desire and not a sense of obligation. It will not be easy for me to be still. Hard for me to be with my own thoughts and to allow, even welcome, whatever comes in. But I think it is vital if I am to build the life I want going forward. Without really slowing down with a willingness to be uncomfortable for what may be an extended period of time, I will end up pursuing what is expected of me or what is valued in our culture, and not what matters most to me. The trick is the willingness to stay with the discomfort. The trick is to realize there will be times when it is too much, and it is ok to take a break. The trick is to give it at least the full year.

First, actually achieved last years goal. Love the new job. Can’t get enough, in fact. But this time next year i would like to have finances back under control or be divorced. Either one works.

I’d like to be in a committed relationship. I don’t really expect that to happen — I really don’t know how to make it happen — but I know I want it. There was a time when I dated a lot, and I’ve had some good relationships but it’s been a very long time — or has it? I mean I did have one with Steve and that ended only a year ago. Funny, I too seem to discount it because it ended so abruptly and so painfully. But it did show me I want a real relationship in my life. Now, how to find it??

In a year from now I want to feel better about my body - healthier and fitter. I hope I don‘t experience the dizziness anymore and that my constant neck pain is better. Being unhealthy or feeling unwell can make everything else unenjoyable, so I need to prioritize my health and work to improving the wellness of my body.

I'd like to do a BIG RIDE on my bike. I got a new bike 3 years ago (my first-EVER brand new bike!) but had some injuries (broken toes, broken shoulder) that have taken time to recover. The poor bike has been ridden ONCE. I want to get it adjusted and get back on it and do some kind of riding adventure. We have a trail here by which it's possible to go more than 100 km without ever going on the highway or coming out of the woods, though there's no camping there. But in my mind, there is the possibility of leaving early in the morning and riding through the day... so it's not entirely impossible to do 70 km in a day. Just HARD!

I would like to feel more comfortable speaking in public. I am now taking on the role of board chair at Brandeis Marin and know I’ll have many opportunities to speak publicly and lead meetings. I want to feel comfortable to be myself and lead authentically.

I would like to be a more engaged listener, particularly for my wife. She has experienced some horrible things in her life and walks through life with a lot of anxiety. When she has shared her experiences with me, I have not been as attentive or empathetic as she needed. I recently realized that I am doing what part of my family does, which is only superficially listen when a persons shares something. I don't like it when they do it to me, and I don't like that I do it to others. I also know that it is especially devastating to someone who is in pain to feel that they are not heard. The result of my behavior in this way over the years is that my wife and I lost part of our connection and intimacy, because she has a hard time trusting that I am really there for here.

This coming year I really want to save money for the wedding, and to move. I want to feel financially secure, and as though we are moving forward with our dreams. I want to see my dad, visit Brussels and the Netherlands again in hopes of helping us decide where to move, and also ease the anxiety of the move. Also I want to have at least two more tattoos, and to have started/at least done some, swimming in a gym close to our home. To improve my asthma and to feel enveloped in water more regularly and connected to the mother moon.

"Achieve." hm. I just cut my answer from yesterday and pasted it to day 7, as it fit better (the difference between "achieve" and "improve." subtle). My son is all about this--he likes have goals and holding himself to them. So I'll put this down: I have a new music room in my house, full of instruments, amps, cables. We have recording and editing equipment. What I haven't had is the feeling of inspiration you need to do any of this . . . meaning, learn songs, play songs, write songs, arrange songs, practice songs, record songs. I'd like to commit to writing five songs, either collaboratively or independently, either electronic or acoustic.

I hope that our new rescue dog, who is a puppy mill survivor, will be better adjusted and feel more comfortable in her life with us. She is such a sweet girl, but still suffering PTSD, and though we are working hard with her, it will be a long process.

I hope that I have created a good rhythm of work-life balance. I know this is a buzzword, akin to self-care, but I truly mean that I want to make sure I'm enjoying and thriving in my job while still making time to be with people that matter to me, work out, cook nourishing meals and baked goods, listen to podcasts and walk, and read. These are things that are important to me, and I don't want to lose any part of myself in whatever job I have.

To become the yoga practising, meditating, calm, centred, thinner person I want to be. I dropped to 3 days a week to focus more on me but so far (ok, it’s only been a month and Mum has had a lot of appointments!) haven’t made much progress.

By this time next year i want to have an enclosed food garden. It has been important to me for the past several years, and is especially important as the climate and food systems become ever more unstable. Getting this done will be taking charge and overriding the diversions of my all male housemates. It will be moving past all the barriers that have delayed it so far. It will be one small thing I do for myself.

I'd like my home to be less cluttered.

Raise my series A so we stay in business

I would like to have a better handle on my debt. My goal is to live within what I make and go 3 months without needing to use a credit card. Stretch goal is 6 months. I would like to be able to complete my PM certification. It's been interrupted several times, and I do not want to give up! After that, begin taking classes that will count toward a bachelor's degree. Organizational Management?

I would like to have passed my theology degree and have established myself more as a prison chaplain.

Have a home that I do not hate to be in for more than 10 minutes and that I will feel my baby is safe in

I think I'd like to feel like I can put aside money for having a child in the relatively near future, while also making monetary reparations, and also being able to spend some money on myself, and travel plans. I'd still like to get a hybrid plug-in, which has been a goal for almost a year now, but I don't know if that's going to happen.

At the risk of repeating myself I'd simply like to carve out time to rewrite my novel. It's now very apparent that this will only happen if I set clear boundaries on my time and enforce them myself. I cannot expect others to do this for me or to help me. Either it's a personal priority or it's not. It's time to act.

I would like to be in a loving, mutually supportive relationship. It's important because all we have is each other at the end of the day - and I am getting ever closer to the end of my day

I'm going modest this year, I'd like to read more. It's good for me. It would mean I'm using my time better and not just numbing out on my phone. It relaxes me, it inspires me and it keeps me open and curious and intellectually sharp.

I would like to have a more regular income - without necessarily having to work full time - so that I may contribute financially to our home. I would also like to continue on the road of physical fitness and health. The reasons for the latter are obvious.

I don't know. I think I want to continue de-centering achievement. I don't really want to achieve anything. I want to continue living in a way that makes me happiest, and if I achieve nothing on paper, receive no accolades, no recognition, no praise, oh well. The things that make me the happiest don't align with the word "achievement." Doing manual labor outside, writing for myself, reading, and dancing, don't earn any achievements, but they make me very happy. This summer I learned the value of my happiness, and that it doesn't come from tangible achievements. Maintaining that happiness, keeping it alive within me, is the most important thing for me right now (and hopefully, forever).

We are still hoping that in the next year the nephew will start school. Sometimes life chooses its own pace. For the upcoming year, it is to get to Italy. I love the country (probably despise the government now). But still love Rome and Florence. It is my partner's dream vacation - and wouldn't that be nice to make a dream come true. It may mean that my tick tock date to retire is extended - but that isn't because of the travel, rather the market - but I do love my job and find gratification - so I am okay with that. But to spend April in Italy - that would be an achievement.

Honor my sexuality as it is in this 55th year on the earth and in this 11th year of marriage. To do this means to find a creative and ethical balance, or tension, between my marriage commitment and my libido, not allowing my spouse's libido to define my sexuality. To do this means recognizing that I exist outside of this marriage. This is particularly important because the odds are that I will be alive after this marriage ends with the death of my much older spouse (whom I love).

I think I can repeat my answer from last year: I still don't feel connected, still don't have much of a sense of myself. I have started EMDR, and it feels like I am getting somewhere with it. So I guess I wish to feel more confident and be able to create & nourish my connections with people. I hope I feel more connected spiritually, too

I'd like to be cancer free. I know it has nothing to do with me and what I do. I follow protocol and hopefully that will buy me this year and many more to come.

Create a regular practice to build body strength and flexibility as I lean into turning 70.

I would like to gain mastery of organizing my classes and students so that I don't have to face the same fiascos that I am facing right now, trying to get people wrangled into the CEU classes before the Oct 31 deadline. PCA went out of business in Tijeras, so my goal is to find another venue that is easy to work with and not too expensive. ASHA is a pain, but on the plus side is a real massage school and the rent is not too bad. This is important to me because I am finding myself very challenged by people's sob stories as well as having a hard time with the credit card site's erratic behaviour regarding sales taxes and sign-up limits. I would like to have possibly made some progress towards actually writing a book on ethics and deep listening. This is important to me because I see a gap in the book world that needs some filling. I look forward to having visited Hawaii again in the spring of 2023. This is important to me as I so thoroughly enjoyed myself on the trip to Yellowstone that I really will enjoy reconnecting with the folks I met on that trip, as well as exercising my brain in a little different way.

plan for sabbatical capture Safta's memory in tangible way ritual in rosh chodesh or shabbat Important to me to live out my values of memory and family. I do want to participate in the moment, and build upon memories for myself and my kids.

I want to boulder outside at a new place. This is important to me because it connects me deeply to the outdoors and it’s created a lot of peace and fulfillment in my life when I have bouldered outside. Trying a new place is meaningful to me because I can explore the rock and move in ways I haven’t before and being connected to new beautiful places is a goal of mine.

I’ll have to get a permanent job. Whether that’s still with my current employer, or following a friend somewhere else… I feel like where we are today my wife’s adventuring professionally, and I’m providing the stable base to allow that. That base should get even stabler this year. I want to see that happen.

I want to keep writing and not let the momentum drop

Whoa. Almost a duplicate of last year, as I continue to improve communication & intimacy with Karen, and I should return to online piano lessons. I would also like to start voice lessons!

I’d like to be closer to paying off my debts. This is important to me because the debts are getting in the way of me improving my life.

Here I am again - still chasing the same goal. I really want to have completed my string quartet by next year. It’s embarrassing that I still haven’t finished. I also hope to have planned out, and composed, a new album’s worth of small band material. I think I mostly have it, just not organized. And a retreat for myself would also be a help toward these goals.

That we are settled in to our new home and happy with it. This is where we’re planning to spend the rest of our days???

I think this is basically unchanged since last year - query novel and submit short stories for publication, settle into a new job, and be in a position to start thinking more seriously about house and kid. It makes me feel like I am getting nowhere. I know progress through life isn't linear. I know that times of apparent stagnation can actually be times of ferment and change and growth. But I'm sick of how behind and set back I feel.

I’d like to have more clarity and direction about what I am doing here. Maybe I will be able to provide astrological consultations for those interested in the language of the cosmos. I suppose I would like to advance further in my studies of astrology, religion, mysticism and psychology. It’s important to me because it is what propels me toward a reason and purpose for existence.

Make more money.

I want to learn more, and I hope that this time next year, I will have read more books, reached out to colleagues, and either attend a class, seminar and/or conference to further my knowledge to be even better at my job.

This year I have no grand ambitions. There were too many times when I had plans for what I wanted to achieve, then looking back and realizing that I was nowhere near that goal. It made me feel like a loser, and I am not in the mood for it. My goal is to be at peace with myself and the decisions I am going to make over the course of the coming year.

I'd like to become happier!

I would like to achieve a personal observance of Shabbat that means I will not use my (non Jewish) husband as an excuse for not following rules. It's important to me because I want to take more responsibility for my actions this year.

In the least have visited and decided where to retire. At best, I would have bought my retirement home all based on how the market does. Mentally and spiritually advanced further with my Buddhist practices.

I'd like to realize more presently that things will work out and my individual decisions are less important to that than I realize.

I would like to understand the meaning of the two extraordinary experiences I had: the first as a child of 8 years old who longed to understand the mysteries of existence and who was frightened by the one who I now think of as the Guardian of the Threshold who called to me out of the darkness to offer to teach me the secrets of existence. The second, as a new teacher at the Marin Waldorf School who dreamed that Rudolf Steiner showed me the three beasts behind the closed door of a school room. It is important to me because it seems to deeply connect me, as imperfect and flawed as I am to Anthroposophy and to the understanding of the admonition: “O Man, Know Yourself” and maybe, just maybe, help me to reshape my self as I would tread the path to Christ.

I want to get healthy and resourceful so that I can feel the joy in my work again and so that my family enjoys spending time with me and I with them. I want to Bild emotional and psychological rwsilience!

I would like to get back down to my goal weight again. After achieving it a few years ago, I have become less vigilant. I would like to weigh 150 or less by the end of the next cycle.

Auditioning again for America's Got Talent only this time singing the song I wrote with my partner who plays guitar and making progress on the audition. This is important because I was born to express myself in the best way possible. I also hope that I will have at least started remodeling my home. I also want to make a will

I want to know myself. Like.... drill down and find me... the person who is not reacting to others needs. I just want one last chance.

Surgeries. With the possibility of insurance on my horizon, I can finally get the pair of surgeries that will improve my quality of life and also alleviate my dysphoria. I also will be treated differently by those I interact with. They don't mean anything bad by how they treat me, I know, but my non-binary self is so tired of being binary-gendered.

I hope to do another bike trek next summer, at least five days over a good distance, because it gives a good sense of accomplishment and vitality. I don't feel too old.

Well, it's looking like we'll actually get our real empty nest in the next month or so, so I guess learning how to move into this phase of our lives would be something we'll need to achieve in the next year. Beyond that? I guess I have little goals...keeping up with fitness and getting back to the routines I used to have. Being better organized with my work. Helping tell better stories.

A body weight and composition that provides me good health.

I would like to find a purpose in life that I connect with. Important because I currently feel as though I don't belong to anything

I would like to deepen my relationship with my body - be more somatically aware. I would like to have daily somatic practices for healing. I would like to feel that I have made progress in therapy. I don't think I can really commit to doing more than that this year. Resting and doing whatever I can to heal from ME/CFS takes up so much time. Progress with healing just takes as long as it takes - targets don't work for what's beyond my control. But I can do what I can do educate myself and put into practice what I have learnt. Why is it important to me? Healing is my mission, my one job right now, and perhaps over my lifetime. Healing myself prevents harm to others, and enriches my own life. Health is the foundation of everything else in life.

Being happy with myself and those around me. I think finding and integrating myself into yet another community sounds exhausting, but the work is always too rewarding to give up. It's tiring to not have a community, moreso than creating one. I'm hoping to find ways to find myself and my people here while I'm here. I'm exhausted, but think I could find some friends or mentors through this. I should reframe it—I think I'd be a valuable addition to the synagogue community and other communities here. I hope I can do that. And I hope I can do it again when I (hopefully) move. I'm ok at surviving with no one, but I've learned that it's so much better with people on your side.

I want to be healed from my traumatic brain injury. I want to be more financially secure. I want to make my mind up about where I want to live, or at least be okay with where I am living at the moment. I want my kids to be healthy. I want to be physically healthy and strong again. I want to be okay with being 50. I want to have healthy friends around me. And if I'm in a relationship, I want to be in a healthy one. It's important to me because I want to live the rest of my life riding it out on a wave. I thought I was gonna be fit and healthy and awesome by age 50, but nope, that's not gonna happen today, on September 30, 2022, especially with my accident. It's important because I definitely don't want to work for the rest of my life. 50! I shouldn't be working my ass off, but with this divorce, I have to do something. I want the opportunity to buy more property, so I can sell whatever and take off to Portugal or wherever.

This time next year, I want to have a good friend group. (Or just good friends!) I'm sure this is only going to last another month or two, but right now I'm feeling very annoyed with my lack of friends I actually like here at Oberlin.

Lose weight? Start writing my book? They didn't happen so why should I try again? I will try again. I want to reduce my weight by at least one kilo.

Stronger willpower/motivation/self-control (food, boys, rest, teeth) and better executive function (ability to prioritize what is most important and execute). More flexibility. More happiness. Wipe out admin list. Continue family & friend time. Good TV. Do fun things as able. TRY MORE TREATMENTS and maybe get better (?!)

A calmer core sense of self. This is important because my family is facing a lot of difficult transitions. I would also like to be comfortably living in Winfield IL

To have both my knees working well enough that I can resume hiking and bicycling.

Either getting a full time job or going on the Fulbright! I just graduated college, I'm amalgamating part time work for the time being. If I get the Fulbright, or a full time job, I'll be really happy. I like what I'm doing now, but it's not financially sufficient for the long-term.

I want to be able to chant Torah, or at least to read Hebrew not like a first grader. This is important to me because Hebrew plays such an important part in Judaism and I feel deeply connected to the language.

Hoping my theatre in an actual space, because I love the arts & I know what it can bring to my community.

I want to feel proud of how I've learned, grown, and practiced as a social worker. This is important to me because if I can do work I'm proud of as a social worker, I will be one step closer to embarking on a career and work life that is meaningful and sustainable for me. If I can do this, I know can make a positive difference.

I'd like to see my children and grandchildren and most of all my great grandchild in person instead of just in video chats. It's been too long since we've been together in the same place at the same time.

I'd like to lose at least some of the weight that I've put back on. It's important to me for my self-acceptance, confidence, body image, mental health, and for my physical health too as it continues to deteriorate.

I am working part time until March, and then I move into full retirement. While I may pick up some occassional jobs, I will no longer be doing home health. I look forward to having more time to be outdoors, exercise, devote to my family and contributing to efforts to make our country a better place.

Finish my book. It’s about time!

I want to create a lasting impact on the experience of the architecture and construction profession, and this is proof of concept: A larger work team 2 designers, 2-3 drafters, 2 manager / support roles. AND I will be married?!

I'd like to lose about 5% fat percentage. I know I'm not at my ideal weight or look, but fighting with a scale isn't working. I'd rather look at fat percent and see how I can improve.

I would like to achieve work-life balance. It is becoming increasingly important to me to enjoy the precious days and years I have left with the people I love and cherish, and I feel I have wasted so much time in my life feeling tired, angry, frustrated, and exasperated by people who do not bring me joy and never will.

To feel like I've been more present. I'm a worrier and a planner, so I'm always thinking about the next thing, and sometimes I'm not as present for my family or enjoying experiences as I want to be. This is the only life I've got and I want to experience it as much as I can.

We need to know where we're moving to, and we need to have made specific plans. As we age, we are "running out of time" to become active participants in a new community. We have to do this.

I would really like to have my home office be cleaned up and organized. I've had this on my to-do list just about ever since I moved into this house. I am embarrassed and always making excuses when people come over. I would like to stop making excuses. I would like to be happy in this space, instead of feeling the weight of perpetually unresolved tasks. I have written this on a post-it note and placed it right above my computer monitor, in hopes it will keep this motivation burning.

Death will be fine. Fast and painless. It’s well overdue. Would have been better for everyone if I was never born.

I'd like to be almost done with my book. Like ready to send it to a publisher done.

I'd like to work with my photography - take more & better pics, put them in booklets or online, & organize the photos I already have.

Now that I’ve retired I want to travel more. I’ve already started taking better care of myself. Working out. But I need to get more entrenched in a schedule. I hope that my heart issues resolve. I wonder what the status will be between Marcus and I in a year if we will be together.

Me being a better person. This is important to me because I have made mistakes that have almost made me lose a friendship that I just made.

I like my answer from last year about figuring out this stage of my life and making the transition to part-time at work. I'd like to enjoy work while finding more purpose and identity outside of work. Maybe just have a clearer vision of what I am moving towards in my life outside of work and what my source of meaning and identity will be.

I would like to have cleared out the house of all extraneous clutter, and have decided on which Spanish or Portuguese city to move to. I hope to have at least started the visa process. I hope to be fairly fluent inSpanish and to have the house ready to put on the market. I hope, I'd like, I will.

The obvious answer, by the time this rolls around I want to be a doctor. I think I can be, I think I will be. I'm exhausted of this process but I am so close to the end.

By this time next year I STILL am hoping to have financial security. This has eluded me since I decided to go to grad school. Being financially secure means not needing to fear the inability to eat, sleep, and enjoy life.

By next year I will have my studio up and running. I will have 3 additional galleries representing me.

I would like to lose a significant amount of weight as a result of regular exercise and healthier eating. I also want to have a more cheerful disposition in general. It's important to me because I want to look better, feel better and be a better person to be around. I also want other people to see Christ through me by how I live.

I would like to retire and hit the travel circuit with Steve! I’d like to spend camping and hiking and exploring. Visiting friends and family and generally enjoying life!

Well, by next year I hope and expect to be married to Randy. Why this is important hardly needs saying! I also hope to have traveled to Israel again, which will be my first overseas travel since COVID. Israel is important for all sorts of reasons, but most of all, to see my family., and to introduce Randy to them, And Israel to Randy.

I'd like to be either making lead money, or working for a company with a rotation. Working this much as my current rate isn't ideal. I can't cover a mortgage on my current wages. At least with a rotation I could continue traveling, but cheaply because I could book it in advance.

I would like to regain my computer-literacy enough to comfortably use a laptop functionally for my families taxes, and my partners expenses. This is important to me because I feel that this financial ill-literacy has contributed to our families financial decline. I want to help all of us stay stable, and grow financially. I want to regain my ability to be financially responsible.

Walking hiking with ease. Top of Burro Pass. With ease and agility. Complete recovery from total knee replacement surgery and able to fully participate in the active lifestyle that I love: hiking, mountain biking, getting on the floor with my grandchildren Achieve weight goal and maintain Continued commitment to T100 Shortened goal posts

I hope to start a grief support group(s) at my therapy business. There is so much grief in the world because there is so much loss, and grief sometimes is not respected. People are expected to "get on with it." Grief is a journey, not an event.

I want to feel more comfortable in my area of research. I want to stop resting on the laurels of my PhD and grow in my own right as a postdoc.

I want to have my top surgery booked! Maybe even have had it by now. It’s important to me because I’ve spent so many years of my life suppressing who I am. I turn 26 next month, and I’m celebrating it as a rebirth. Last year I didn’t think I’d make it to another birthday, I was so suicidal. In a month I’ll be older than my uncle Kieran when he died from suicide. Sometimes I feel like he’s with me, everyone says we look a like. Im marching forward in my life now, celebrating the little wins like changing my name and sticking up for myself at work. Top surgery is the ultimate goal, something that when I achieve will literally take a weight off my shoulders and help me to breathe freely, to express myself properly and to love and live without fear.

Professionally: I would like my team to be Professional and preventative vs reactive and casual. Personal: break 5 hours in the 70.3

At the ripe old age of 56 I would like to have achieved some sort of regular routine by this time next year. Getting up and starting work at a consistent time, eating at consistent times, good bedtime routine etc. I have a LOT of low level anxiety and I know I fare better when I have some sort of routine. I also eat better and get more exercise. The work I do know involves a LOT of self discipline and sometimes I am totally on top Of it and other times….not so much. My hypothesis is that if I have more of a predictable routine I will be able to have more consistency in my motivation and self discipline. Right now if I have an unproductive day I will work on the weekend to make up for it. This sets up a bit of a viscous circle because then I’m not getting quality down time. This is a good time to start because the daylight is waning and I will need extra motivation to work during darker hours.

I have been laying tefillin every day (except shabbat, of course), so it would be cool to achieve a whole year of doing the mitzvah. I have learned to not be as reactive, and I will keep working on that. I will also work on my meditation / prayer practice and see what my outcomes are.

I would like to have helped at least 50 people with financial therapy. This is important to me because I want to use the gifts given to me by G-d to make a positive difference in the world, bring in income to help me achieve my charitable and personal financial goals, and feel a sense of accomplishment.

I would like to have a daily meditation and yoga practice. I want to embody my own practice so I can teach others.

A place for everything, and everything in its place. Easier said than done, after nearly 25 years of raising 6 kids while working from home with very little support. Boxes and boxes of “I’ll get to that later” and “I might need that someday.” I’ve made some progress this year, spurred on by seeing the mess my in-laws have had to deal with, to sell their home. I feel almost hopeful that I can get at least within shouting distance by this time next year. Dear next-September-me: I’m sorry in advance if I let you down. Keep trying. Love, this-September-me

M and I have been talking about learning to scuba dive so that we can scuba when we visit Samoa and Hawaii next summer. I am really looking forward to learning something new with him.

Gosh. Next Sept 30. I'd like to have better sustained energy. Lately I feel tired and unmotivated a lot, like an overall malaise, but I don't want to go "chasing" some dopamine hit that isn't organic and ends up just complicating life. I like simplicity. But I also like appropriate excited. I guess I want to feel happier than I do now. It's not about anything in particular, it's just in general, and I'm just riding it out. I'm hoping that my psilocybin journey and integration work help me toward this in a sustainable way. It would be great to be effectively microdosing at this time next year.

Re last years thing I want to achieve, I have taken actionable steps to become more resilient, and speaking to a counsellor has helped. I shall continue on this journey of self-improvement for all of next year too. Aside from that, I would like to have returned from parental leave more confident in myself. I also need to be back doing a job that means a lot to me, rather than chasing more money (and more responsibility) - that might mean moving jobs and/or department, which is potentially quite a scary prospect.

One thing I’d like to achieve is finally leaving this dump. Mom and I have been here for 12 years, very good tenants, and yet we get rewarded by fucking not having hot water for two months then immediately not having a fridge for two months. Fuck this.

This time next year, I'll be six months into motherhood. I think I'll call it a success if Alex and I feel like we're doing a reasonably good job as parents, we still like each other, and we feel reasonably happy at the end of the day. Keeping those goals small and achievable.

Balance and peace of mind.

Being at peace with myself. I’m constantly disappointed with where I am and how little I feel I’ve accomplished. I need to feel better about me so I can be better with others.

buying this house free and clear

I'd like to be less obsessive about writing everything down as a reminder or a list. This is important to me because I'd like to live with less fear about forgetting something that's important.

By this time next year I want to have established an exercise regiment that includes running, stepper, trampoline, jump rope, walking, and paddleboarding with swimming daily in summer unless rain.

I'd like to be fully employed in the job I've been working on creating for myself for the past several month +. I'd like to have more self trust and trust in others. I wouldn't be mad if I have been dating someone magical this time next year...or earlier.

I refinanced my home to get the funds to renovate my garage. That was in June. I've been unable to identify a contractor to do the work. It's important because the refinance was emotionally difficult and I was intimidated going into the process. (My bank was terrific. The stress was from me having been poor in my 20's and 30's.) So, to have gone through that process and be unable to fully manifest my intention has caused some frustration. But, I've decided to let go of my intended timeline.

I hope that this time next year we will have a healthy tiny human in our family. So excited to meet you, little one.

Keep improving my health: I want to go back to real biking just to see my neighborhood changes more often then when I am taken out with the car. Then I might want to start driving again. We have an electric car.

I really would like to transition to a new job. Right now I don’t even think I am interested in an academic position (at least for now), I don’t think I have the bandwidth for it between kids and other responsibilities. I would prefer to transition to a more traditional (but remote) 9-5 job and not feel the pressure to publish while not making enough money. I also think this will help accelerate me to the finish line in fully paying off my student loans, something that has bothered me since I first started accruing debt at 18. Maybe with a better salary and getting out of debt, I will be prepared to finally make more adult purchases, such as a home.

I’d like to be conversational in Korean. I’ve been studying for several months now, initially to better understand all the kdramas I watch, but now it’s more than that.

One thing I'd like to "achieve" by this time next year is a feeling of balance. I'd like to feel as though I've had fun and spent SOME time traveling, whether that's a racecation to combine open water swim racing with some great location or a holiday or going to the East Coast with my sister's family - I want to feel more balanced than this year. This year, my anxiety around travel and the money I spent on moving and coaching felt too constrictive to include any more "fun" but next year I'd like to incorporate more fun into my life so I don't feel resentful of my own choices.

I would like to have researched Open Floor and attend some classes and workshops, and decide if that's a better path for teaching dancing.

I’d like to work through the trauma in my life, let go and move forward. This is important to me because I can’t continue to beat myself up and be unhappy.

This answer echoes ... to lose 20 lb and keep it off while still not having to give up cocktails. That is a tough but not impossible task. Only my weight is an issue with my Doc's who say otherwise I am darned healthy. Have not yet found the magic bullet.

I’d like to have graduated from UConn and started my masters degree. This important because it shows I can complete college well and achieve what I set my mind too.

Still working on last year’s goal to retire. It was an unusually interesting year of new proposals and chances to enjoy being at the top of my career, so that has made it enticing to roll on. I’m taking it one day at a time.

I honestly don't know, and for me, that's a good thing! I have learned to gear myself to 'one day at a time' and because having high expectations creates low serenity. I welcome any challenge as an opportunity to learn and grow, whenever it comes.

By this time next year, I will be a doctor. I will have a plan of action for providing interpersonal communication tools to large numbers of people. And, with that dissertation behind me, I will have build my capacity to focus my spiritual life. I will also be able to hold conversations in French at a B1 or B2 level. I will be walking or running or doing sports at least five days per week.

Peace and equanimity. Also it would be pretty nice to fall in love too !

I would like to learn to truly value myself for who I am, and not for the work I do (which I am no longer doing). I am having feelings of unworthiness as I have stopped making the money I used to make. I am grateful to have this new chapter, but it is scary. Hopefully by next year, I will have made peace with whatever type of contributions I am making to the world, even if they cannot be measured in a monetary way.

Writing habit. Regular writing practice

I’d like to do so many things, but one that is super important is clear my financial debts, with the exception of my student loan, and be living on strictly what is in my bank account. I believe this is attainable, and it will allow me to focus on what is important, and ultimately not have to make choices driven by income that don’t align with my professional passion and balance of work and life. I also want to role model this for my daughters.

My goal is to land at least 1 voice-over agent by this time next year. Agents are not the only (or even the main way) to land voice-over work, but they sure do help. I have never been confident enough until now to say that I can make an agent money, but I believe in what I do, so it is time to advance the career!

By this time next year, I'd like to be able to say I am managing my anxiety surrounding COVID better. This is something we have to live with now. We take as many precautions as we can and are up to date with our shots but we can't let it stop us from living our lives and I'd like to get to a place where I'm worrying less about it.

Better balance in my life. I haver not had time to work on my photography nor my family heritage.

I hope to deepen some friendships with a few people and start having some people over for dinner. Maybe a girlfriend that like to go to the art museum or walk in the park on nice days. I’m a social person but sometimes I feel lonely. That is probably something within me and not because I don’t go out enough. And maybe there is something inside me that keeps me from feeling truly close and trustful. So maybe this year I actually should find a way to address this myself.

I would like to be loosing weight and keeping it off. This is important to my body-image, how I see myself and my confidence in my looks. In addition loosing weight will be really good for my health, hopefully reducing my liver enzymes and LDLs and A1C on my annual physical. Loosing weight will put less weight on my joints when I walk or go down stairs or hike, increasing my confidence and joy of movement. It might even help me breathe better.

I would like to become a leader of a team, formally at work.

I would like to have become a more understanding, less selfish person.

I want to have my next novel completed and either published or in the editing stage.

This time next year I will be celebrating my first month of retirement. I hope I will have finished my school career at the best of my ability. I will have moved in a smaller, uncluttered and harmonious flat. And I hope I will have started to establish a routine that will help me live actively and consciously.

Still be among the living and having a reasonable Quality of Life.

I don't WANT to adult more, but I hope I do. My father lives with us, and does most of the cooking, shopping, and home maintenance. He's 80. I need to step up, do more, and stop coasting so much. He needs a break, and I need to remember how to adult.

Attending law school; I really need to get ahead professionally.

I don't think there's any point in answering this question. I don't plan in advance like that anymore. In the next year, 30,000 things are going to happen that I didn't plan for, and that I'll need to handle immediately. That will get in the way of my goals. Every day, I break off a piece and work toward one of those goals. I can't plan on what I'm going to finish first.

I hope to be a good father. so scary! i'd like to think that since the baby is kicking already and I'm moving stuff and getting ready, that I've already started. but what an adventure it will be!

I want my book to be finished and out in the world, or at least out of my hands and scheduled to be released to the world. I have spent almost three years on it and I see its completion as the beginning of the end of my musical career and the beginning of my writing career. I would also like to see my child has made a successful transition into a large public high school, but as of yet, I’m not sure how we’ll accomplish that.

There are two things I’d like to achieve. One is to rebuild my savings. I poured a lot of it into projects for the house and I don’t love how low it’s gotten. The second is to continue practicing and learning German. I’ve been pretty good at keeping up with Duolingo lately, and I hope that I can continue my progress and be somewhat conversational by this time next year.

I would like to start progress on my first degree. If all goes accordingly I will be catching up with some failed classes and starting the journey I put on pause so long ago.

Simply, I want to be 78 going on 79 this time next year. I would also like to achieve world peace and no hunger with freedom prevailing. I wish to achieve the persistence of a democratic United States and the defeat of fascists and anti-semitism and racism and hate of all kinds. I wish that my family will be safe and live without fear. All of these ideas and ideals are also what I wish for all mankind

A promotion or raise because I want to work more and save more money to get closer to travel and home ownership goals.

Have our 3rd room decluttered so I can work and make music in it.

FINALLY get the weight-thing under control! I am looking at the next phase of my life, and I know of certain challenges that will be present. I no longer wish to have this " anvil" tethered to me as I move through those challenges, and on to "the senior-citizen" life. Period.

I would love to have sent out queries to at least 10 literary agents (this piece I control) and receive a request for more material by at least two of them (this piece I partially control - if my work is good enough, conceivably they will want to see more). This will make me believe I am making progress in my goal to be a published kidlit author.

I keep having publishing goals in this space, and I have yet to do it. This time, what I want to achieve by this time next year is to have a happy, healthy one-year-old daughter. I know I can do that.

I'd like to figure out a retirement plan or a part-time work that affords time to do other things besides work. I have been muddle-headed about retirement planning, secretly worried that I will miss the adrenaline rush of lawyer emergencies and the structure of arriving at the office by 8:30 every weekday. With more non-work time, I can care for my home, spend more time with family, do more needlework. But would I sink into lethargy? Am I using work to avoid sweeping and laundry?

Paying off debt! I have a car loan and student loans still outstanding. With the potential $10,000 loan forgiveness program that should happen by the end of 2022, I could theoretically pay off all of my loans by September 2023! That would give me so much more flexibility in my budget to save for a down payment for a house, travel, donate to causes, invest in myself, help others, the list is endless.

I'll just go ahead and abstract part of my response from last year: "I also want to date with a bit more intent so it's my sincere hope that by this time next year I'll be pretty far along into a relationship with the woman who will eventually become my wife." So you could say that I wasn't successful on that front but I'm taking big steps to prioritize that goal and make it a reality: namely, I'm going to quit my job by January and not take on any other FTE jobs for at least a year, which should allow me to focus my attention on dating and (hopefully) finding the woman I'm meant to be with. I'm ready to have kids and start a family and finding a partner is a critical step on that path.

OK, two things. I'd like to get back to writing and painting, and or course, continue with theater. It's really important to nurture my creative side. All right, a third thing - to enhance all my relationships.

Cleaning routine

By this time next year I will be actively moving towards a career move that can sustain me in the long term. It may be coaching or it may be as a licensed therapist, but I will be actively moving towards a way of being that will provide me with financial well being and stability for years to come. I do solemnly swear to it, I will be actively moving towards a role as a consultant, coach, therapist or more. I can't wait. I am also going to generate autonomy and healing around my relationship with my previous partner. Im so looking forward to existing in a state of total and unconditional love with her.

I would like to continue my journey to fully convert to Judaism. This is important because I feel very deeply that Judaism is right for me and I wish to live a fully Jewish life.

I want to live boldly and more authentically. I want to follow my heart first, my loved ones second. In order to do that, I need to demonstrate trust in myself and my loved ones every day.

HOMEOWNERSHIP. Because being homeless sucks.

By this time next year, I hope to have gone from working for the state to working full time for my union, helping to negotiate a great contract for 10000 employees. That will ensure meaningful work until the day I retire. I also hope to have redone both bathrooms in my house and finished decorating my bedroom. A leap forward in making this house a real home. Fingers crossed!

I would like to have reestablished a relationship with my son, Damian and Viviana.

I want to have the inspiration and strength to move to a new apartment more suitable for my life now, and buy a new car by selling the apartment where I live now.

I wanna learn to leyn Torah!

Stop the binge eating and lose weight. It’s killing me and I have family obligations. Food and sugar obsession is as bad as drug addiction. If there was someway somehow to guarantee Jared’s future. We’re getting older, if one or both passes or gets sick how can he be cared for. Yes, the brothers Adam and Jason are there - but he’s too involved to think they could care for him full time. And even outside assistance can be dicey. Most people spend 25 years raising their children. Parents of disabled children have to worry about caring their child for 50 years or more. He’ll be 43 in October and we should be grateful for his and our health.

Close out the storage facility in Brockton. It would relieve my family of doing if I end up with an early demise. It would also save a chunk of change. Other than that: run a 5K in 30 minutes and a 10K in 60 minutes. Run a half (actually run rather than walk). Add another four dozen MA communities to my "run a race" list.

Two things, actually: I would like to be able to knit something, and to have a small exchange in German with someone, and have both side of the conversation understand each other! I have a tiny start on the knitting (and by something, I mean something more than a small square), and expect to be able to do more as the year progresses. As for the Deutsch, I have a start on that, too, being in the midst of a respectable streak of daily lessons. I am pleased with myself that I continue to learn, and to make progress. It is getting a little harder, and I still don’t have much of an ear, to comprehend the spoken word. But I AM working on it, and just made the first move toward getting my hearing tested. It would seem that last year’s permission to set aside tangible goals had the desired effect, and I have made some progress, with the reduced pressure, toward putting something that’s not just pure entertainment or time wasting into practice.

I would like to find my winter home. Because I need an alternative to G ville and would like to live in another culture. Spanish speaking. And master my Spanish speaking. Looks like I said the same thing last year -- OOPS!! Still working on it. Forgive yourself, Le'ah.

Simple but sometimes simple is nice. Improve my tennis game, perhaps achieving level 3 or 3.5 and winning a small tournament and/or playing on a team in a league. Arranging my woodworking shop so that it is functional and comfortable and safe and hopefully sharing it with others on joint projects. And lastly, investing our charitable trust once it comes back to a more sustaining level.

There are two major goals: To have achieved my Green Card so I can no longer be stunted in my career and feel like I need to accept scraps To have joined an EdD or PhD program for the sake of my self-worth

As usual, I want to maintain a tidy and clean home. Last year I had given up and given in to entropy and it got worse as the months went on. After breaking my ankle, the local Jewish community provided a major house cleaning and organized stuff in boxes, and, with my sister’s help in late winter, we got everything that was in boxes in the dining room put away. Since the great clean out and clean up, I’ve tried to keep up with cleaning and tidying and am almost finished with my bedroom and the kitchen. There are still containers of things that need homes in my office. And books all over to be put away. And stuff to be taken somewhere to donate, but at least that’s contained. So I guess I want to achieve two things by this time next year. First, a place for everything and everything in its place, and regular cleaning and tidying. Second, stop spending money on things that are nice to have but not essential. This is HUGE.

Have all my kids (once again) settled in homes and relationships that are satisfying. The importance is obvious.

Like last year, I have no real ambitions for this year. I’m no longer achievement oriented generally. I will be happy to keep my friends and family close and enjoy my time with Betty. I want to bring presence into all my interactions and to grow more deeply in my contemplative practice. I would like to get some of my body confidence back, that I have lost during the menopause and get my sex life back to the way it was with Mark- playful and fun.

That my health and energy levels have returned to how they used to be before this "unknown" illness befell me. Its important as it has such a negative impact on my quality of life

I want to nurture my pomegranate plant to the point where it can be transferred to my yard and thrive there. It was grown from a cutting from a pomegranate tree that used to be in front of our synagogue, but which had to be cut down in order to make way for the new synagogue building. Many people received sustenance from that tree. It's important to me that part of the tree survives. Others are growing cuttings from that tree as well, but I will feel the loss if this particular plant doesn't make it.

One year sober.

Start a job. Preferably a biz. My biz that I enjoy and am passionate about. It’s important bc I want to find something to help give my life meaning and my days structure. I have what I need. I’m fortunate. I can be of service to others.

I am taking a HUGE step and having a tummy tuck on November 11th. There are a multitude of reasons for this. The thing that I aim to achieve by next year at this time is being more physically fit and being stronger. I am physically active, I walk and run, I work out, I stretch. My eating habits are not perfect, but they are not horrible either. The weight around the middle has been a struggle for a very long time. A portion of this surgery is to repair the stomach muscles. The ultimate goal is to rebuild the core to be strong, along with the other major muscles, thus preparing myself to move into the "senior years" in a better position to enjoy a long healthy life.

I think that will be closing the business and focusing on the movie, charity work and grandchildren. Time to spend more quality time with Francoise and do more things with the boys. Time to focus on being in better physical condition so that I can do the preceding. I love those parts of my life and want to use the years ahead to cherish those things.

Couple of things come to mind. One, is to be settled in Brighton and living a great life there during my time there. Second, to be at my ideal weight and body fat percentage.

I want to be proficient at making healthy meals at home.

I will be consulting on the 2 projects with which I have patents. Its important to me because these patents will change things in the world of waste and body protection.

Be married. Have a new mission and energy in my job!!!

I would like to get to know the folks at Particle.fm. I would love to have a regular group of folks listen to and enjoy my show. This is important to me because sharing music is massively important to my spirit and so is growing my sense of community.

By this time next year, I'd like to have established a consistent pattern of business development leading to ongoing paid work. This is key to a strong self-esteem and a sense of purpose that gives my days meaning. I feel like I've been avoiding making the commitment to this goal during this current year, but I know that I can achieve this goal if I pursue it with discipline.

I would like to be employed and be living in the city

Next year I'm going to focus on my health: figuring out what all the little annoying things add up to and how to ameliorate what I can. It's important because as I age, I have less capacity to deal with things, and using it upon minor health stuff leaves nothing for hobbies and pleasure.

I would like to be almost done with my masters degree.

Healthier lifestyle. Like the cheesy saying, Health is Wealth.

Being healthy and happy and to be working. Also to be cancer free.

I would like to still be alive, no explanation needed.

I would like to have a permanent full time job with benefits and a plan for retirement.

Gosh, I really would like to have achieved a long-term relationship (more than 3 months). I know that's not in my power, but good gravy I'd like to have a partner once again. I'm happier and more stable, plus I feel like I'm heading towards what I really want, which is to be married again.

By next year, I'd like to have just become less shameful. I am always so afraid for people to really know me. There's a part of me who both thinks Im amazing and always incredibly worthless. I would like to speak up, and be more confident about how I live, what I think and my experiences. I'll notice this by how I speak and when I speak about myself with others.

I would like to feel really good at Spanish. I am going abroad this spring be''h and I hope that after that I will really feel comfortable speaking. It's something I've wanted for so long and I feel like I'm so close to being at a new level.

By this time next year, I would like to be working on a portfolio for Instructional Design. I would like to be looking into freelancing. Personally, I would like to have traveled abroad by this time next year or at least have one abroad trip planned. I have not been overseas for more than a decade.

I want to enjoy living in Florida to the fullest! Travel to France. Meet the man I’m going to be with for the rest of our life. Just be happy!!! Let go of wrongs my family has done and move on from the trauma and guilt to be free from their thinking. I will be at peace with myself, my life, my family, work, friends, health, weight. I will love myself just the way I am and create beautiful things and memories so I won’t feel any regret at the end of my life! I will live truly and honesty and be open to love, to live, to smile, to laugh, to forgiveness now!!! I need to get pierced and quiet in my life, it’s way beyond time to do this for thyself.

Number one maybe find our permanent place? But realistically know my way around Carver Park. Walk more. Walk successfully. Work on my left leg not swinging out. Keep up my PT regimen, and also swimming, yoga. Biking as much as possible. I can’t lose my muscle mass. Stay healthy, no lupus flare.

Avoir fait mes exercices me permettant d'avoir atteint une bonne rééducation périnéale et avoir plus de tonus musculaire. Bref, avoir pris soin de mon corps. Avoir trouvé une façon d'être équilibrée et heureuse au travers ma vie professionnelle et familiale.

Since I regularly fail to achieve my year-to-year identical goals, they will get a short mention: I want to be in better physical shape and I would dearly love to get my book published. The former is treading water -- I don't seem to be getting that much worse -- and the latter is out of my control until I decide once and for all to self-publish. However, somewhat in control is my office and the boxes of photos, letters, mementos etc. that need to be digitized, organized and distributed. If by this time next year I have made a respectable dent in that process, I will feel good.

Last year I was finally able to quit my job. This year I am unsure about the future of yet another job I have undertaken. For this coming year however, my goal is to get pregnant. I, we, are ready. As all the parents I have met have told me, there is no perfect time and I think, as Susi's career is blooming, this is the time. I am so so excited to share this with her. I think we are such a strong, caring, thoughtful, gentle, resilient, bad-fucking-ass team that we are ready to take this on. So in preparation I have stopped smoking and drinking during my fertile period, am getting regular exercise, taking folic acid, trying to get a good amount of sleep and journaling to de-stress at the end of the day. We are so very lucky that Wojtek has agreed to join us on this journey and he is so sweet and thoughtful already. It will be nice to have an excuse to see the Belgian boys more.

Contentment. Accepting what is. I think I will be a better person in my relationship with others.

I'd like to have done something at work that feels really meaningful and satisfying. And if that hasn't happened I'd like to be actively looking for a new job.

I would like to lose weight to be a more healthy person. In the past, my weight loss has always been associated with an event or just looking better. But as I will be trying to conceive in 2023, I want my body to be healthier for the sake of my future child and myself during a time that my body will be undertaking a great deal of stress.

Have my house all set up the way I want. Get rid of stuff. I don't like living not knowing where things are. So much stuff is packed in containers.

I would love to have a higher paying job or higher pay and the same job, but those things are not really entirely in my control. I would like to have better health. I would like to improve my strength and endurance and get back to being able to ride my bike a little longer than currently. I would like to be able to ride from home to the river and back.

One of my goals is the same as last year, but this time I really mean it: to sign with a new literary agent who really gets me and my work, helps me to grow and become better as a writer, and supports me over the long haul of my career. It's important to me because writing is my vocation; to deny it is to deny God's gift. I want to be writing books again that feel like a true expression of my soul. And I want to share them widely with the world, for my words to spread joy.

I hope to complete the conversion process and participate in the High Holidays as a Jew.

I am seriously thinking of emigrating with the way things are going. So maybe, by this time next year, I would like to have an idea of whether I am staying put in the UK with more stability, or whether I will be on my way (or already there) to another country. This is important to me as I have thought about it for a long time and allowed myself to be directed by the pace of other people or events. Time to take some control of my own destiny.

Making passive income or making decent regular income from something I am enjoying and is worthwhile. Romantic & Sexual Divine union - a wondrous relationship!

I would like to have at least applied to one new job by this time next year. I need to get over my fear of failure and new things and just get out there, at least so I can see what else is out there and possibly ask for a raise at my current job for the next fiscal year.

By this time next year, I would like to have the interior of my house organized and set for life after retirement. Might not be completely possible, since I will be starting back teaching in January, but I am already making progress.

Well, I hope I will have finished school and have a plan lined up for CPE and my field work. I hope to be more adept with Hebrew than I am now. And for both of those, I need to just keep plugging away. But the truth is, at this moment, I am less focused on what I am achieving and more on who I am becoming.

New/updated role... either with Murmuration, or another organization (e.g. World Cup). A new challenge. Something bigger and more interesting. And I'd like to get my mental health improved. Especially around food.

I'm going to enter at least four more writing contests. I'm going to attempt to get my poems published. I'm going to get into the PGCE programme that suits me perfectly. All these are important to me because I want to move onward from the stuck feelings of being in China and reclaim myself.

Socialising more and getting out more on myvown. Things I was doing pre covid

My long-form (~6-hour) CEU course (Addressing Sexuality in OT Practice) will be available and selling well by next year! My goal is to offer live versions quarterly and to have a pre-recorded version available for sale as well. Launching this course is important to me because 1) I've been working on it for so long (meeting a long-term goal is so satisfying) 2) I believe that it will benefit many OT practitioners and their clients and 3) the revenue from the course will allow our family to travel and commit funds to other things that we value.

I REALLLLLLLLLY need to deal with losing some weight. Every year, I put this in and then fall down. But it's important, and I want to work at it, and I've not given up hope. I want to live a good long healthy retirement life!!!

I's like to lose these 10 pounds I put on this past year! I've been trying to get under 140 since January and GAINED nearly 6 pounds instead! Eating very little, but not moving as much as I did at my other job.. Even stopped drinking - for no other reason other than I just didn't want to... less ciggs too - I also should keep that Drs apt. BP is WAY too high and I still have that pain in my leg/knee - I'd like to have "achieved" my book finding an agent/publisher, which will require work on my part - as will getting my ASS off the couch!

I want my book completed because I have an important practice I want to share with the world. And even if just one person reads it and finds it helpful, then I'll know I've succeeded.

I've got the food part worked out. Now I want to add daily movement and a strength routine. Turning 40 is finally here and if I don't build those things in now I worry about whether I'll have the stamina to enjoy life in my future decades. I was able to run - truly run - down the block with my kids this week. That was so freeing, after years of never even jogging. I want to keep being the active mom I've dreamed of.

I’d like to feel decluttered. Mentally, physically, emotionally, at home, at work, & in general. I want everything in my home to have a purpose and spot without being piled up. I’m not looking to be a minimalist but just want to not feel overwhelmed. I want to be at my goal weight & not feel like it’s a constant struggle to maintain but a natural part of my life. I want to have a stronger marriage with better communication and not one where I tiptoe around things. I want to be in a higher position at work to reinforce that I’m a leader. This will also provide additional financial decluttering because I’ll be able to pay things down plus renovate the house. I just want to feel like I can breathe & not constantly feel underwater!

My focus is still on creating completions with space clearing, life documents, debts, and the getting the high school kid set up completely for success, along with being an instigator of a massive Love wave to wash over the entire Earth.

My first goal is to focus on groundedness. I want to stop reading books on the topic and start doing, or should I say being. I will meditate more often, put my phone away. I would also like to diminish my sugar intake… for my long term health. And maybe… I want to quit my pointless job? Not sure if I’ll be ready in the next year but it will happen one day!!!

I’d like to have my genealogy book done or mostly done. It’s important to me because this research is my life’s work, and if I don’t get it into book form it will be lost to history.

I have no idea what the next 12months looks like, I thought I knew what the next 20 years were mapping out to be... I'd like to be settled and content - whatever that looks like. I'd like to be running properly again, doing 30miles a week comfortably and enjoying it. It'd be good to have the logistical disentangling sorted out so no worries about money etc. I'd like the big, long running house jobs to have been ticked off the list. Really, I want to be happy. I want the people around me to be happy. It's important because you only get one life to live (which you remember, anyway). Life's too short to be miserable, feel undervalued and ignored.

This is a very fitting question as today is the night before the London Marathon ballot opens. I know 100% that when I read this in a years time, I will have run the London Marthon. It’s important to me because it will be more evidence that I can achieve whatever I put my mind to. And to show my children the same

Walking properly and stay healthy at my house.