2013 New Year's Resolutions / Goals

[iam1bearcat]

if, you know, we make it to 2013

seeing as it is December 1st, i thought it would be fitting to start thinking of goals for the next year...

• exercise at least 30 minutes a day, 4 or 5 days a week (GOAL: continue this goal)
  
  
• donate more money and time to my local Humane Society. i absolutely love animals, and i'm planning on donating my Christmas bonus to them, but i want to start helping out more often, even if it's just once a month. (GOAL: donate some money / time at least once a month)
  
  
• read more! books, magazines, graphic novels, anything and everything! i used to LOVE reading as a kid, and somewhere along the lines i stopped completely. bought a Kindle, but after stopping at the bookstore today i realized that as great as the Kindle is, i get more submersed in books when i have actual pages and such. sounds weird, but hey, that's me. (GOAL: read at least one book a month)
  
  
• continue to eat healthier (GOAL: continue this goal)
  
  
• pay off at least $4,500 from my car loan. right now my car loan balance is $8,900 and i've paid off $2,900 in 3 months, so $4,500 should be doable. at the very least, continue to pay an extra $150 over my minimum monthly balance due. GOAL: continue this goal)
  
  
• have no late bills! GOAL: continue this goal - so far so good for all years that i've had bills to my name!)
  
  
• limit wasting money (i.e. foolish purchases). every year i probably spend $1,000 or so on senseless purchases - clothes, movies, random crap at a store, too much food at a restaurant, grocery food i never end up eating, et cetera. (GOAL: less impulse purchases)
  
  
• limit wasting time. this is mostly spending less time on the internet. amazing how much time i lose to the internet. and while the majority of the internet use isn't wasteful and kind of relaxing, sometimes i find myself reading comments on articles and getting consumed in the stupidity of it all. (GOAL: put this time towards something worthwhile)
  
  
• learn a new language. in my ever expanding career, it certainly wouldn't hurt to learn a language or two. thinking about starting with Spanish since i still remember some of that from my high school days. (GOAL: buy a book or program to begin learning a new language)
  
  
• spend more time with my family. i used to avoid my family like the plague in a typical angsty teenager way. the last three years though i've gotten a lot closer to them and since we have a very large family (lots of cousins, nieces and nephews, aunts and uncles) there's always something going on i can take part in. (GOAL: relax, enjoy and spend time with family outside of holidays)
  
  
• remember how lucky i am each and every day. for not going to college i have certainly turned my life into a massive success and it just as easily could have gone down a different road had i stayed the dipsh*t little turd i was for most of my teenage / early adulthood. no matter how hectic, stressful or angry a day at the office gets - i have that options BECAUSE I HAVE A JOB AND A CAREER. people without jobs and careers cannot get stressed or angry at work because they don't have one! every day i try and remember that. i am very grateful - along with a small dose of great timing, luck and a vast amount of work ethic and ability - to be where i am in my life. and every day i do my best to remember it could be so, so, so much different (i.e. worse). (GOAL: continue this goal)
  
  
• save, save, save, $$$, $$$, $$$. i'm pretty good at saving, but i can do better. i've maxed out my 401K contribution (after tax addition so when i retire i don't pay taxes on it! ) along with the employer contribution, but along with another goal of spending less money on thoughtless things, money can go to this category. can never save too much. (GOAL: continue this goal)

so, what are your goals?