Goals Update: Year End Review

I seriously can not believe that 2011 is basically over.  I feel like it was just a short time ago that I was starting this blog as a way to get my thoughts out and deal with the sudden changes to my personal life and my plans for 2011... and boy, were those some big changes.

I created those three goals as a way to give me some thing to achieve instead of floundering around for the entire year trying to move on.  Overall, I think I did really well.  I'm going to post in a few days about my overall review of "the year of Megan", but so summarize on the goals specifically...



1. SAVE MONEY, REDUCE DEBT: This one started off really well, and thank goodness for that.  I managed to put over $1,000 in my savings.  Then, we put the house on the market and I had to pay for the title attorney AND a POD storage.  Bye bye savings account.  BUT, if I hadn't made this a goal in the first place, I would've really been stuck and would've had to rely on my parents for so much more than I had.  I plan to work really hard on getting back on track with the savings in 2012.  About the debt, that's still plugging away.  I've been really good about not spending on my cards and just making payments.  In 2012, I want to pay a little more than the minimums to try to cut them down faster.

2. GET BACK IN SHAPE:  Another up and down one.  I managed to lose close to 20 pounds (AWESOME), run my first ever half marathon (AWESOME) and gave myself some good workout at home.  The end of the year made this one really rough.  I struggled to keep doing things once my traveling schedule became really busy AND then I packed up all of my things.  I received an email the other week about the 2012 Summerfest half marathon and I'm seriously considering doing it.  I have to struggle through January with some travel but I would like to get back on track with working out.  I really felt good for a while and I want that back.

3. STEP OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE:  This goal was really to make me do thing I'm not usually comfortable with.  It did work in some ways.  I made more effort on my appearance at work.  I tried new things with fashion and makeup.  I do my nails regularly now.  I know these are superficial things, but they are a big start for me.  If anything, this goal forced me to figure some things out about what I wanted for myself.  It felt really good.


I'm going to develop 3 goals for 2012 as well, because, well....  the Year of Megan is continuing and getting better!