2020 was, you know, quite the year. I had very great intentions in the very beginning. I was working hard on growing my photography side hustle every weekend. Much like this title #21in2021, I was well off on my way to accomplish my #20in2020.
- Read 3-4 books per month: I have already read three books in January, so I’m quite on the way. This would amount to between 36-48 books for the entire year. For the Goodreads Challenge I listed 40 as my target goal. I even went to half-price books in January and picked up about 10 books to get myself started!
- Purchase a house: If you follow me on Instagram, you might’ve seen some photos about our plot of land. We have signed a contract on a new build that is scheduled to be done at the end of April. I plan on writing a post about our home search and why we chose to go with a new build at a later date. You can also follow along and view my stories about the build as it happens!
- Drink more water: I’ve been successfully consuming 1 gallon of water a day this year. I only missed out on two days in January.
- Do more DIYs: This one should be relatively easy once we move into our new house because there’s going to be room to do projects! I have a lot of ideas and I’m building up a list.
- Take more photos: As long as I’m creating DIYs and art, then I plan on taking more photos. Even with the small day-to-day activities, I want to produce more evidence of memories.
- Ask for help: At the end of the day, what I don’t know I don’t know. I need to push myself to ask for help when I don’t know what to do.
- Pay off debts: Even though we’re buying a house, I only have about $10K left on my car note and would like to pay that off. Then, over the next five years, I want to get my student loans paid off.
- Learn new skills: I think I spent about sixteen hours this week watching SkillShare to learn how to use Notion.
- Get organized: I watched videos on how to get organized with Notion, so I want to get my life organized with Notion. This article is not an ad for Notion, haha.
- Really get into Notion: I have so many ideas, but I need to take the time to learn the software first.
- Create more art: If I plan on creating one piece per month, I should be able to make more than I did in 2020. You can check that out here.
- Travel: I know I’m not supposed to travel, so I don’t think it will be anywhere extravagant, but maybe a vacation to the woods would time well spent. My friend’s bachelorette party is going to be at a cabin in Oklahoma in March, so I do have one trip planned. My sister also gifted us a Texas State Parks pass, so we want to plane a couple of trips to some parks this year.
- Visit Family: My dad has a visit to us planned for May, so I will get to see him this spring. I haven’t seen my nephew, sister or mom since Zack and I drove home for Labor Day weekend. I hope that I can get to see him again before he turns 1!
- Get back into fitness: I quit my gym in December (after not going since March of 2020), but I miss it. I miss the challenge. I’m not good at working out in my apartment and I don’t want to use the gym we have at our complex. We have a treadmill picked out for our future home gym, but we need to move in first 🙂
- Dinner with Friends: Once we get into the house, I will finally have space to invite people over for dinner. I can’t remember the last time I had a guest in our apartment.
- Start a gratitude journal: I have started setting this up in Notion, but haven’t started using it yet.
- Create an office I love: Our new house will have three bedrooms, so I plan on turning one of the rooms into an office. So my plan is to create a space that I love sitting in instead of my tiny little room with no windows.
- Work on morning routine: Again, I have started creating a list of “my ideal morning” to help flesh out the idea of a morning routine. I also discovered techniques on how to train your hair so you don’t have to wash your hair everyday. So I bought some new hair products to try it out.
- Declutter: I spent January working on the Apartment Therapy guide to decluttering. So, when we start packing, I want to get rid of furniture that we don’t like (like our couch and end tables). Also, during the packing, I’ll be able to touch everything to consider decluttering.
- Revisit Career goals: Since I work with nonprofit organizations, I want to get the CFRE. I’ve been working on my application over the winter break. I need to find some books at my local library so I can start studying.
- Take care of my plant: I’ve had my plant for about a year and a half. It’s a sad-looking little fucker. Anyone have any tips or suggestions for brining him back to healthy?
