Daily writing prompt
How do you plan your goals?

I plan my goals according to what I want to achieve and what will bring fulfillment and joy to my life. I keep a google doc of lifetime goals with lofty goals like owning property in the U.S and Peru and traveling to all 7 continents. Here’s a preview of it:

Get published in more online or print publications
I will get a translation certification from Arizona University
My Spanish will be more fluent than ever
I will go to Oxapampa-4/2/2023 (goal accomplished, yay ME!)
Travel to Asia
Own property in Peru (preferably in Oxapampa -a house with farmland)
Travel to Mexico (Frida Kahlo’s house)
Go to Montgomery, Alabama-Zelda Fitzgerald’s house

I also have a short term goal list I make every year but also continue to revise them every time I start a new journal. Here’s a preview of it:

  1. Improve on my craft
  2. Improve my credit score
  3. Budget way better (no take out, no amazon, no impulsive spending)
  4. Limit drinking alcohol
  5. Get a better second job or get a first job that pays me way more
  6. Don’t get on stupid dating apps until after July 15th 2023-still not on any of them, yay me!
  7. Don’t date -killing it by living a chaste life -8/18/2023

I want to add that I’m very intentional with my goals and when I start to feel stuck or stagnated in my life, I will revisit them and see which goals I’ve achieved and making progress on and which ones I need to work on. I think that having goals have given my life purpose and keeps me moving forward. Some years have harder than others to set goal, I remember in 2019 I had two goals: survive 2019, have more compassion for myself. So really, it doesn’t matter how many goals you have or what kind of goals they are, the only thing that matters is that they help you evolve and bring fulfillment to your life.

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