(See the Shih Tzu trying to get my attention over the budget book)
I am already thinking of how I can set more saving goals for the new year. I always make the necessary goals like the car insurance ones and other savings goals of that sort. I want to grow my E Fund and my FU Fund (now that bad boy needs to be off the meter)! Not to mention I need to get married one day. I am kind of engaged ya know. We need to save for that (if you wanna know where I am with the planning stay tuned it's coming). I would also like to start a Roth IRA before I turn 40 (sorry that is the sarcasm in me. I just turned 30). My gift fund needs to include birthdays as well as holidays (I have no idea how I am going to do Christmas this year. I think it will be gift cards courtesy of my credit cards rewards points).
Sometimes I wonder if I am trying to juggle too much with all these goals. My mind has really bad A.D.D. and so I wind up being all over the place with goals. I have to write down things immediately and I wind up with post its with my budget goals on it, songs for our wedding, goals for next year etc. It is pretty crazy opening my budget book and post its falling all over the place.
Speaking of which here is
OCTOBER GOALS (how I did)
I get a Boo You for September and October goals.
I only made one hat so that was a fail
I photographed the jewelry which was my goal for October but, have not shown them to people to sell.
I need something to motivate me. Otherwise I just feel like I am wasting my time every month. Any suggestions? Maybe a reward at the end of month? 60 Minute Massage? New boots? New shoes (ooohhh shiny :O)? What can I do to motivate myself to do more than just enough to get by?
3 comments:
This may not be too helpful, but...
I tend to accomplish goals only if they're genuinely necessary, if there's a clear value associated with achieving them, or if I would really derive a sense of accomplishment from achieving them.
My advice would be to set different goals, rather than trying to find motivation for goals that aren't really as important or meaningful to you. If a goal really matters, you're going to feel a drive to achieve it.
(And it also helps to schedule time on your calendar to work on the meaningful goal, and treat that time as something that can't be flexed.)
Whether you go for new goals or not, I wouldn't go for the massage/new boots/new shoes sort of reward. One of your goals that wasn't on the whiteboard was to reduce your debt. It's clearly a meaningful and important goal for you, because you are making huge strides in that area. I think that a monthly motivation expenditure would slow your progress against your debts, undermining your success with your bigger goal.
And why reduce your success with a big goal that you're working hard to achieve, just so that you can motivate yourself to achieve smaller goals that don't matter as much to you?
I have no other motivation except to list out ONE thing you want to buy if you finish all your goals
Somehow, it makes me snap to, if it's something I really want
@anonymous,
wow! Great thoughts. Debt Repayment is a huge goal with me. I just see the big number though. I have mental celebrations for those but, no big hoorah!
@ Fab Broke,
I hope my A.D.D. will allow me to choose one goal (ha ha).
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