Established my Goals for 2010

So, the new year is approaching and I have decided to get "gazelle intense" (as Dave Ramsey puts it) about my goals. I am all about goals, and self improvement so I do a lot of reading about motivation, self reflection and how to make my dreams become realities.

I have found that it is more challenging to turn my dreams into realities the older I get. Why is that? Maybe because I am involved in so much more than I was 10 or 15 years ago. Gosh, even 20 years ago, I had a freshly printed college diploma, a very small apartment, an even smaller paycheck, an even smaller car and a cute, but feisty kitten named Shadow. And a lot of student loan debt. I promised myself then that I would pay back every penny of those student loans. And I did it. With gazelle intensity. So I can do it again.

I chose 4 goals to reach for 2010. They are as follows:

• Sell at least 4 houses this year. I work full-time and have my real estate license. I help my friends buy and sell houses and because of my full-time job, I don't move a lot of real estate. But I do love it, and the commissions help me pay off debt.
• I want to completely pay off 4 bills. I will call them Furnace, Roofer, Lowes and Bank of America.
• I want to loose at least 20 pounds.
• Read one book per month.

So those are my goals. I will write each day to update my progress and the things that I do to reach every goal.

I will also post a motivational quote of the day. I have done this for myself for the past two years and frequently go back through my journal to read them for inspiration. This will be today's quote:

"The most important thing about having goals is having one."

~ Geoffry F. Albert