2010 Goals: Personal and Blog Resolutions

Many of you have probably already set your New Year Resolutions and I’m no different, you can say that we are very similar in many ways.

I have broken up my goals/targets into two categories namely personal and my blog. I have even gone a bit further and broken the two categories into short and long term goals/targets.

Now, you are probably asking yourself why I did that. It’s simple, I did this for the soul purpose as I can evaluate myself on a personal level and then my blog in June. That would be the middle of the year and I would be able to see where I stand. I should be able to accomplish some of the goals/targets I have set by then, but I know there will be some that won’t be completed in time.

There always are a few that move onto the next year, thats life and we need to be prepared for it So, have a look at my resolutions/goals/targets for 2010. You might want to add something to your list after reading mine.

Choose right path for 2010

Personal Short Term Goals

1. Debt: Pay off my off-road motor bike (I owe very little and should be finished by end of February or March)
2. Bad habbits: we all have bad habbits and I need to get rid of some of them
3. Teach Tyron to ride his bicycle with no side wheels
4. Go for a few cooking lessons: I want to be able to make some outstanding dishes for family and friends (not the normal pasta thing )
5. Puzzles : build and frame a puzzle every 2 months
6. Visit my parents in Polly’s more often (just under 300km drive)
7. Buy a trailer and put a towbar on my car for my off-road motor bike (transport my own bike and be independant)
8. Cut down on red meat and try and eat healthier foods
9. Go watch a few Soccer World Cup games: we have already applied and been approved  *** BONUS FOR ME AS IT’S BEING HELD HERE IN SOUTH AFRICA ***
10. Do some exercises in the morning: push ups, sit ups and some weights

Personal Long Term Goals

1. Sign up at a gym close to me: workout 1/3 times a week
2. Try and put on a bit of weight and maintain it (add another 5 to 10kg and then build it)
3. Buy a townhouse/house: I think I have had my fair share of renting (need to accumlate more assets now)
4. Get Tyron a dog: this depends if I have my townhouse/house and if I have a garden
5. Start learning Portuguese (small steps and I will eventually get there)
6. See if I can visit my brother in the UK for a week (spoil myself a bit and enjoy another country for a change)
7. Pay off all my other debt: loans and bad choices that I made in the past
8. Take a few days leave and to go to a destination that I have not been to (3/5 days)
9. Finish the remaining dental work on my front teeth (have 10 teeth still to crown – BIG BUCKS)
10. Improve my dress code and go out more often

Blog resolutions and goals

Blog Short Term Goals

1. Reach 10,000 comments by 1 June 2010
2. Get my blog under 35k on Alexa
3. Buy a scanner for scanning documents for posts
4. Increase Twitter followers to 1,000
5. Increase RSS subscribers to over 275 users
6. Get my blog back to PR4, it’s at PR3 now

Blog Long Term Goals

1. Create my first Thesis theme skin
2. Increase RSS subscribers to over 500 users
3. Reach 15,000 comments by end of 2010
4. Increase Twitter followers to 2,500
5. Get my blog under 25k on Alexa
6. Increase overall monthly income: affiliate sales, Adsense, services rendered, etc (aiming for between $400 – $1,000 per month)
7. Attract more guest writers and offer better incentives for them
8. Try and publish a post every day or every second day (Monday to Friday only – I like my weekends off)
9. Increase backlinks: exchange links with other bloggers or via post link love
10. Create my first ebook and give it away for free or users must signup for it like a newsletter
11. Get my 2 brothers and sister to blog once or twice a month about anything (added 6 Jan 2010 – Gary, Geraldine and Greg)

Final Thought

I might have forgotten a few goals/targets, but I could always update this post and add them. Do you have goals and targets that you would like to accomplish in 2010? Whats are your New Years Resolution? Did you also split yours into categories like me?

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