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2020 Goals & Aspirations

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It’s the first day of the new year and I am sort of ready for it. Every year I sit down and attempt to decide what I want from the coming year. Sometimes I see those things through. Most of the time I admit that the goals and plans rarely make it beyond being thoughts on a piece of paper. This year. I decided I would keep track with them through the year. So that in December we can go back over them together and see what happened and what didn’t.

Personal Goals

  1. Read the Entire Bible: This is something that i haven’t done in a while and plan to read through the bible in a year. I found a reading plan that I enjoy and have already begun it. I actually started in December so I already have a couple of weeks under my belt.
  2. Dinner & Grace: There are plenty of nights when we are so busy anymore that dinner happens when and wherever it happens. That is something we are changing this year. Every single night we are going to sit down and have dinner together. I don’t care if it is at our table at home or at a restaurant. We are all sitting down together. In addition each of those meals will begin with saying grace. I feel like we skip that sometimes without realizing that.
  3. Spend More Time with God: This is something that I try to do everyday but again we get so busy. This year I am setting aside the time to get it done. I have every attention to take a good twenty minutes every day to just talk with God about whatever is in my heart.
  4. Bake More: I have gotten away from baking int he last few years. Again, my excuse is being busy. The truth is I think I over schedule stuff in the last couple of years. This year I’m going to be sure to schedule in baking time. I will share those bakes with y’all as well.
  5. Take up Running: Okay this is a difficult one. I am starting this program called None to Run. It is designed to help me go from doing nothing to running without hurting myself. So I am starting this program because I want to be able to run this mile track when I visit my brother without them having to slow down for me or sit and wait while I finish. I walked it last time and feel horrible because they had to slow down and then finally they waited while I finished. Not this year!
  6. Better Eating Habits: This is a no brainer. This is the year we make better eating choices. We have to do this and I’m tired of saying we are and then not following through.
  7. Give Sodas Up for Lent: I have an issue with sodas. I have tried several times to give them up and not really done well with it. This year I plan to give them up for Lent. My hope is that since I am giving up something I enjoy for this religious time I will find the strength to follow through and maybe cut my habit out.
  8. Be Happy: This is a big one. I want to be able to look back on this year and say I was happy for the largest portion of it.

Blogging Goals

I have a lot of general blogging goals for the year. I don’t know how or if I am going to be able to accomplish them all but I am certainly going to give it a go.

  1. Better Time Management: This is a big one. I feel like I don’t do this well enough. Some days I am on top of this. In fact I feel like I breeze through it while other days I feel like I’m drowning and there isn’t enough time in the day.
  2. Better Photography: This is a goal I am been working on for a while. It is a work in progress. It’s something that you have to practice at to get better and while I think I have gotten better than I was a couple of years ago, I know I still need work.
  3. Affiliate Marketing: I dabble in this. This year I want to get into more and have a better system in place with it. It is just a small part of my next bigger goal.
  4. Earn More Money: I would like to earn another $150-300 a month. I have a couple of ways I plan on doing this and I need to get them implemented.

Rita Reviews

There is plenty of things that I need to do here at Rita Reviews this year. I have posts and other things that need to be updated and gone through. I figure it will take me a good six months or so to get through all of it. I will take as long as it takes. I am never going to rush through things again. So many times I have seen something or whatever and made myself and my blog adapt to that. This year I am doing it my way and my way alone. This is the year I take back my identity, so to speak.

  1. All Posts Updated: I plan to go through every single post, check the links, check the images, be sure the featured image is the correct size, etc and update it. This is the biggest part of my plan for Rita Reviews this year. It will take me months to get it done but I feel I need to do it.
  2. Categories Updated: I plan to add in a few and organize some of the posts better this way.
  3. Book Reviews Moved: I am moving all of my book reviews over to Wickedly Romance so I have them all in one place.
  4. Calendars Set Up: My editorial calendar can look a mess at times. I currently already have most of the first quarter planned. I will be working on planning the rest of the year as well.
  5. New Colors/Look: This is part of taking back my identity. It is something I will discuss later but you will notice most of this has already begun to happen.
  6. Pages Updated: I haven’t updated some of pages in a while but I will be getting this done this year as well.
  7. Canned Responses Updated: I have some canned or saved responses in my email server. These help when I have to answer the same questions over and over. I need to update them and make sure I am using them when I need to.
  8. Newsletter Updated: Again this is something I haven’t changed much other than the colors. I’m giving it a full makeover.

Wickedly Romance

I have shared the goals listed above as well as what I want for Wickedly Romance over there in this post. I have plans for it as well and as I said above I will be taking as long as I need to make the changes. Plus there is another giveaway over there. So be sure you check it out.

Enter the Giveaway

Enter below for your chance to win $500 PayPal money to help start the new year off right. Giveaway ends January 16, 2020 at 11:59 pm EST and is open worldwide.

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  1. My goals are to eat healthier, exercise more and lose weight. I think your goals are great and looking forward to your reviews.

  8. My goals are to get more sleep and exercise regularly. I’m also hoping to focus more on my artwork.

  9. My goals are to prepare for my new job as a software engineer, meditate more/be more mindful, be more of a minimalist and save money. I’m mostly looking forward to my new career and becoming a more mindful person!

  11. My goal is to be kinder to myself and others. Also stay active consistently. Looking forward to anime.

  12. I’m looking forward to learning the music we will perform at a festival in July.
    Thanks for the contest.
    Happy New Year!

  13. My biggest goal this year is to get back in shape, In my younger years I was strong and healthy, I almost 60 now and I have slowed and gotten slouchy. I feel my weaknesses more and more each day it seems. I need to be able to take care of my wife. A few years back she fell on the ice and shattered her ankle. I had to play nurse for 12 weeks. I need to ensure that I can do that again if needed. So this year its eat healthy and a good exercise regime.

  14. I like to try something new every year – this year I’m finally going to learn to bake and decorate sugar cookies with Royal Icing (so strange I love to bake, but I’ve never tried sugar cookies!!). Also teaching myself Mandarin Chinese via YouTube 🙂

  15. Stay on track with health. Biggest is finally hopefully finishing up moms major home remodel. Has taken 3 years.

  16. My goal for 2020 is to work on personal growth in many area. and to be more active.

  19. learn something new. Enjoy life. Take some time every day for myself if just 10 minutes. Relax!

  24. Yes, I’m looking forward all your plans. This year I want a closer relationship with God by reading his word, being a vessel to help others and spending more time with him.

  26. My New Years goal is probably one thats heard every year. I need to eat healthier and lose weight but this time i have some motivation my sugar has been real high and Diabetes runs in my family bad its time for me to get healthy for my kids

  33. I like the Blog Goals 1 & 4 about better time management and earn more money. Those are both goals for me this year.

  34. My goal is to live live more positively and push myself out of my comfort zone to overcome my fears that I have. I have built a bucket list for myself and hope to cross some off the list .

  36. Thank you for the chance to win cash after spending large amounts of money during the Holidays.

  38. My goal is to take my mental health more seriously by going on the elliptical every day, doing yoga, and doing a mindfulness meditation every day. Your goals sound very ambitious. Good luck!

  39. … Spend more time with God. That’s my only one. I figure with home all things are possible ❤️

  40. My goal is to get over my fear of solo hiking. Would love to complete the 52 hikes in 2020 challenge but I know myself, so I’m setting a reasonable goal of 20 hikes for 2020. 🙂

  41. Every year I make a resolution ot visit and comment on more blogs, and it’s worked much better than saying I’m going to lose weight.(lol)

  43. My goal for the New Year is to stick with working out because I would love to get in shape and lose some weight. I started working out 22 days ago and I am pretty proud I made it this far.

  45. My goals are to read at least 2 books per month and try cooking one new recipe a month (not sure family would tolerate much more than that!).

  47. I actually set intentions AND made a list of my top 50 goals for the year. Some of them are really simple, but I seem to need to be reminded of even the simple things sometimes!

  48. Of course I always want to lose weight, exercise more and save money! I’m really hoping starting in 2020 that I can be more supportive, tolerant and less judgmental of friends who make some questionable decisions and help them as much as I can.

  49. My goals for this year are to spend more time walking, and to find a job that I like.

  50. I don’t make resolutions but I’m going to try to be kinder to myself and others.

  52. I love your goals…and honestly should probably incorporate some of those myself. Honestly, I haven’t set any specific goals as of yet, but I do want to focus on my health— physical and mental.

  53. I am going to get my abs back this year!
    I also want to build stronger friendships with my current friends.

    oh.. and finally win a Rita Reviews giveaway!

  67. I’m losing 50 pounds one way or the other. I’ve let myself get too big over the last year, so I suppose another goal would include eating healthier. I just want to have energy when I’m home with the kids.

  71. My goal is to have more energy by getting better sleep, exercising and eating healthier.

  72. My goals are to get more exercise by hiking more with my dogs and gaining full time employment.

  73. I’m working on lowering my blood sugar levels, they have been really high and i’m now on insulin. I suppose that is almost like your goal of eating healthier.

  74. My goal for 2020 is to focus on advancing my career with working towards professional certifications.

  76. My goals for the year are to reduce my main credit cards debt and save up for a vacation to Mexico in October. I am looking forward to the categories update.

  77. I plan on trying to lose some weight this year, pay off some debt and spend some quality time with my family,

  82. I am hoping to complete my novel by the end of the year. I am also going to go back to my roots as far as religion is concerned and teach my 8-year-old son about God and how to pray at night before he goes to sleep.

  86. I don’t like to make too many New Year’s goals because the list then seems overwhelming. So this year I’m focusing on getting healthier by eating better and getting in more exercise.

  87. I need to give up soda too!! I like it too much and it isn’t doing great things for my health.

  88. I have two goals this year. The first is to continue to lose weight (I lost 60lbs last year!) and the other is to read more books! So far we have no real plans for the year.

  91. I have already started toward my goals of getting healthier and looking healthie: cutting out carbs, cutting out sugar, drinking more water. Be more conscientious of my food intake.

  96. I am looking forward to starting up our vegetable garden and doing more canning this year. Homegrown food is always better!

  97. I am looking to get in better shape and have more fun this year. Lats year was a year of fixing things or having to make a purchase. My old van died after fixing it 3 times , basement flooded pump burnt out. Washing machine broke. Lawn mower had mixed oil gas put in it and the list just goes on. Better luck this year

  100. My main goal it to get a grip of money!
    in second is organization….. House, Bills, Desk … LIFE as a whole

  105. This year my main goal is to get rid of the clutter and be more organized. I spend so much time looking for stuff when I could actually be working on something. I’ve already made a start and I feel empowered!! I also want to exercise more and get healthier. Thanks, Rita, I hope your goals and working on them empower you too!

  109. I want to eat healthier, work on finding out more about my fibromyalgia and learn what I can do to prevent flare ups if possible, and I also have a problem with soda and think its a great idea to give it up for Lent because I also drink way too much of it myself.

  111. My goals are getting in better shape and spending more quality time with family. I think your goals sound great and I’m really looking forward to your posts!

  113. My New Years goals include appending more time with my family, cooking more and getting healthy.

  114. Im looking forward to whats ahead! One of my goals for this year is to be more organized

  116. I’m walking more, drinking more water and gave up pop and junk food. So far I’m doing good.

  120. I don’t really make resolutions, but I want to work on submitting stories to publishers this year. I use to do that and I think I have some good short stories, but I haven’t tried to get them published over the past several years.

  122. I want to be mental happy with my body and start applying for a job I’m would be happy long term with

  123. I have lots to do this year. Just launched my blog. Plus my mom passed before Christmas, so I am up to my eyeballs in knickknacks & financial issues. Definitely wanting to start fresh. Thanks for the chance.

  124. My goals are to get healthier; body, mind and spirit. I plan to eat better, start working out, journaling and spending time in prayer.

  125. I wish I could say I was such a horrible time for us my brother in law has only days to live dying of cancer throughout his body just turned 57 years old we are like brothers can’t bare it

  126. My goal for 2020 is to get at least 7 hours of sleep each night. I am excited to see your updated newsletter!

    • Lisa,

      Did you sign up using the form in the sidebar? Those newsletters go out on Fridays only. Let me check and see if you are listed in there. I don’t think I have the RSS feed listed but there aren’t any codes in that anyway. Shoot me an email with the information you signed up with. rita(at)ritareviews.net

  133. My goal for 2020 is to get my life organized in a lasting way. I always make the same resolution but this year I am being more reasonable with my goals and not trying for something impossible to achieve. I sat down and wrote out a 12 month plan which is totally doable and will make me very happy.

  135. My goal is to make good, small decisions on a daily basis to be healthier, happier, and less stressed.

  136. Like you, I’ve also decided to take up running. It’s a low-cost exercise that works well in the city.

  139. My goal is to work. To make a revenue that can maintain basic standards of living. Effect repairs on my home. Bu it seems impossible just like receiving a newsletter from you that I requested on several occasions.

  140. My goal this year it to take more family photos and to have someone take more photos of me with my kids!

  141. My goal is to get out of debt. I like your goal to be happy. Getting out of debt would make me happy.

  142. My word for 2020 is “open”. I will be more open in trying new things, being more open and positive.

  143. Hopefully getting residential custody back of my son but the lawyer payments are adding up. Which sucks, but that is my goal for 2020.

  144. I plan to tackle our yard – getting it back in shape to look good and pull the weeds. I look forward to more time to play, walk the beach, read a book, ride a bike or take a hike. I look forward to spending more time with the grandkids at their very important events. I look forward to our weather turning to winter! Here it is January 14th and I have my 1st sunburn of 2020 from the yard work! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!

  147. I am focusing on eating better and getting more activity. I’m looking forward to a trip to St. Maarten in May! I have never been outside the US before.

  149. I look forward to trying new things and making some fun memories with my family this year. We are planning on a few road trips and can’t wait!!

  150. My main goal is a simple one…to move. My husband died last year and we always wanted to live *up in the mountains*, so I want to follow through on that goal for him, I know he’s with me. Your goals sound very productive and achievable and I wish you success in doing that!

  154. I am focusing this year on a couple of things. We changed my fitness program at the very end of 2019 so I am looking forward to adding in different types of fitness into my routine to stay active and not get bored with the routine. I also am dedicated to recycling more efficiently. I also want to cut back on some unhealthy habits and talk more gently to my kids.

  155. i am looking forward to hitting the gym, as before, exercise my entire body, not just a lot of walking.

  157. I am very much looking forward to 2020. As a caregiver I’m looking forward to promoting the importance of good health to those around me and myself. It’s going to be a fantastic one.

  160. My goal is to find that work/life balance this year – I worked way too much and it hurt my social and personal life.

  162. My biggest resolution is to work on my credit. At 37 years old, I am really just beginning to realize how important it is to have a good credit score. Sad, I know. Also, I am excited for your updated newsletter.

  163. I’m also looking forward to more baking! It’s my happy place, and for 2020 i need to be in my happy place more often!

  164. I am wanting to make the most out of this year, with traveling, spending more time doing what I love, and getting things done that improve my quality of life!

  165. My main goal is to live a healthy stress free lifestyle.
    Really looking forward to reading your content this year!