New Years Goals - 2014 Edition

I'm taking a leaf out of the book of one of Magical Words Bloggers, and creating a set of Goals for 2014, rather than Resolutions, because Resolutions can be failed and forgotten, whereas Goals are works in progress.

So, my Goals for this year:

1. Financial Goals:
a) Reduce my debt by Half, and
b) Stick to a weekly budget.

I'm not going to detail what the numbers are, but they're not friendly, so I really need to do this.

2. Writing Goals:
a) Write 600 New words a day, 5 days a week, for 50 weeks of the year. Doesn't matter what the writing is - blog, stream of consciousness, story, brain fart - just as long as they're NEW words.
b) Finish CM1 by 31/03/2014 and SEND IT OUT TO AGENTS
c) Finish Draft 2 of CM2 by 30/06/2014 and Get it into my Critique Group.
d) Finish Draft 1 of CM3 by 30/09/2014.
e) Write Draft 0 of CM4 in November 2014.
f) Blog at least once a month.

They are in order of importance. I've already set up a writing tracker for Goal 2a, and I've already fallen behind, but it's the thought that counts, and this blog - this post - will also add to the numbers.

I plan on doing the last more often than once a month, hopefully at least once a fortnight, but I may not have that much to say. We'll see.

3. Travel Goals:
a) Make a bucket list of places I want to visit before I return to Aus.
b) Visit at least one of those places this year, and plan on visiting two or three in 2015.

So there you are. Wish me luck!