Project 52

Project 52 is a fun way to make goals each year. The idea is you list out 52 goals you want to complete in the coming year and for every one you do not complete you must give $5 to your favorite charity at the end of the year. I do a mixture of serious and fun goals. I think fun goals are important because they make us stop and enjoy life and the serious goals are important because they make us become better people. Plus if you don’t complete everything on the list your money is going to a good cause. It’s a win/win for everyone!

Here’s how I did in 2011.

So onto 2012! Here is it is:

1. Save more money than I did in 2011 (that’s how I am quantifying that one)
2. Volunteer
3. Try to get pregnant and sustain the pregnancy. You can read my story here, here, here, here and here.
4. Order room service
5. Go to one live sporting event
6. Be cleaner
7. Control my temper
8. Do not let the scale control my mood
9. Donate Blood
10. Be better with skin care
11. Get more clients
12. To stop worrying so much what other people think
13. Get a dog
14. Redecorate my upstairs loft
15. Get a safe deposit box
16. Get life insurance for me and Keith
17. Chew less gum
18. Make an effort to be more fashionable
19. Go on more dates with Keith
20. Read 2 classics
21. Start going to Temple more often (my younger Jewish self is appalled by my lack of attendance!)
22. Go to Dallas more often to see Keith’s family
23. Be better at staying in touch with my sister-in-law in Dallas. Hi Jill!
24. Stop Fat Talk! (this is a BIG one for me!)
25. Learn to sew a button back on (right now Keith is my go-to man for problems such a these)
26. Stretch more
27. Clean out my spare (hope to be baby) room’s closet. It is scary in there!
28. Give up my reliance on protein bars for snacks
29. Make 1 new recipe a month (I totally failed on this one last year)
30. Go the Farmer’s Market once a month (I used to be so good about this!)
31. Go to Denver for the BLEND retreat
32. See more movies
33. Stop the Diet Coke habit
34. Say “Thank You” more
35. Work on my jealousy issues (this goes hand in hand with #3)
36. Do something touristy in my home city (Austin, Texas)
37. Take a cooking class
38. Take and Pass the Texes Teaching Exit Exam
39. Finish my CE’s to renew my personal training certification
40. Max out my IRA for the year
41. Substitute teach
42. Be more in touch with the news and the world around me
43. Be better about praying
44. Make up with a specific friend
45. Update my personal property insurance policy
46. Keep my 8-year-old car running well by doing necessary maintenance
47. Be better throughout the year of organizing my tax receipts
48. Get a pedicure every couple of months
49. Complain Less
50. Take compliments better
51. Work at getting in my 10,000 steps a day
52. Give $5 to charity for each on not completed by the end of the year