2011 New Year's Resolutions - Page 3

Benzgirl · #1 01-02-2011, 12:11 PM

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Come to GA; there isn't a Notary exam ( at least the last 2 times I've gotten mine and then renewal, I just had to have a form signed by witnesses.)

Ohio has an exam that takes about 5 minutes. To renew just takes a fee at the courthouse.

PhoenixAzul · #2 12-31-2010, 07:26 PM

- Break 4 hrs in the marathon (reach goal: qualify for Boston!)
- Do at least two tris this year.
- Try hard to be more approachable and to reach out and make new friends in my new part of the country. Subhead: Get more involved in Oklahoma. Letters already sent to girl scouts and Catholic charities.
- Save the $ needed to successfully apply to emigrate to Britain. We've got all the other qualifying factors, but have to prove "support", meaning that we wouldn't sign on to the dole the second we landed. Which is fine, but it means $4300 needs to be squirreled away. A savings plan is in the works!

AGDee · #3 11-28-2011, 07:42 PM

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I don't really do resolutions per se, but I do have some goals that I hope to accomplish in 2011 including:

1) Passing the CISSP exam
2) Finding a job in IT security

I've been working on #2 with no results so far but I'm pretty confident that if I can achieve #1, then #2 will follow quickly. The biggest obstacle right now is finding $600 to pay for the CISSP exam .. within the next 3 weeks <sigh>. Otherwise, I have to wait until May to take it and I'll be in the middle of a class then, which would royally stink.

Um, Yay me!!! I took the exam, got the security job, then found out I passed the exam

Yay me!!!! I did wait until May to take it and I took an extra term off of school that I didn't plan on but it all worked out!

KSUViolet06 · #4 12-31-2010, 09:11 PM

I don't make resolutions. My goals for the year:

I want to get a grant or assistantship for my grad program.

I want to start off with a 4.0 (in my previous program, I had that. I'd like to continue the streak!)

PNM20 · #5 12-31-2010, 11:32 PM

1) Continue on losing weight. I'd like to be back at my size 4. (weight isn't bad right now, just really want to be back at old weight).

2)Find a guy who isn't a complete jerk/oblivious/slow/(list could go on)...

3) Convince my parents to let my study abroad in Switzerland and Italy over the summer!

4)Apply and get into a field study.

5)Be a cleared AIC (attendent in charge) with my station (I am an EMT)!

6)Find/join a sorority that will be right for me

Drolefille · #6 12-31-2010, 11:37 PM

I have thought of one or two.

I'm going to complete my thesis, and I'm going to run.

And if I get that done, I'm looking for a new job.

ily · #7 01-02-2011, 12:11 AM

I said I wasn't going to set Resolutions this year but I would JUST DO IT- so here it goes.

1. get to know my professors better
2. decide if I really want to so to law school or would grad. school be better
3. raise my overall g.p.a
4. get in better shape
5. I will not let fear stop me from gaining what I really want

amanda6035 · #8 01-02-2011, 02:07 AM

I'm going to finish paying off my car. I started Dave Ramsey's Total Money makeover in February 2009. We've paid off just over $36K in debt since then, and we're in the home stretch of the remaining $6K now....once thats done, all we'll have left is student loans and mortgage.

I'm going to lose at least 20 pounds by May, when hubby and I plan to start trying to conceive. I have much more weight than that to lose, but my goal now is to get as healthy as possible so that hopefully, we will get pregnant quickly and have a safe, healthy pregnancy.

I'm going to dust off the daily devotional that I bought last year, that I never cracked open.

Hopefully I can get with it this year....

DubaiSis · #9 01-02-2011, 03:29 PM

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I'm going to finish paying off my car. I started Dave Ramsey's Total Money makeover in February 2009. We've paid off just over $36K in debt since then, and we're in the home stretch of the remaining $6K now....once thats done, all we'll have left is student loans and mortgage.

Congratulations! That's huge! We are maybe 2 years from out of a similar amount of debt without having to do too much belt tightening. It just takes focus.

Other than the every year stuff (weight, exercise, be happier), I'm going to complete my quilt this year. It's the biggest friggin thing you've ever seen (European King size 300cm X 300cm mattress, plus overhang) and I'm hand quilting it. It has a tendency to get set aside and not picked up for weeks at a time. No more! At least a couple hours every week should get me there.

PiKA2001 · #10 01-03-2011, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by amanda6035

I'm going to finish paying off my car. I started Dave Ramsey's Total Money makeover in February 2009. We've paid off just over $36K in debt since then, and we're in the home stretch of the remaining $6K now....once thats done, all we'll have left is student loans and mortgage.

I'm going to lose at least 20 pounds by May, when hubby and I plan to start trying to conceive. I have much more weight than that to lose, but my goal now is to get as healthy as possible so that hopefully, we will get pregnant quickly and have a safe, healthy pregnancy.

I'm going to dust off the daily devotional that I bought last year, that I never cracked open.

Hopefully I can get with it this year....

I just bought his book the other day ( I've been listening to him on the radio for about a year so I KINDA know the program). I have about $25k of debt (all car) which I hope to pay off this year. After that beast is killed my goal is to put $1,000 a month into my savings account.

Drolefille · #11 01-03-2011, 11:38 PM

^^^ I've listened to him, but my inherent distrust of anyone on talk radio makes me question the whole thing. How useful IS his whole plan thing?

PiKA2001 · #12 01-03-2011, 11:45 PM

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^^^ I've listened to him, but my inherent distrust of anyone on talk radio makes me question the whole thing. How useful IS his whole plan thing?

VERY useful iF you follow it like you should. I thought it was total BS at first when people would call in and say how they payed off $40k in debt in two years making $50k a year but the more I dig in it seems more and more possible. It's all about living BELOW your means and simple common sense financial knowledge that people tend to ignore.

Drolefille · #13 01-03-2011, 11:48 PM

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VERY useful iF you follow it like you should. I thought it was total BS at first when people would call in and say how they payed off $40k in debt in two years making $50k a year but the more I dig in it seems more and more possible. It's all about living BELOW your means and simple common sense financial knowledge that people tend to ignore.

Yeah that makes a lot of sense, and I know it requires a lot of work to do on the front end in controlling spending and dedicating the money to the debt.

Good to know it's NOT total bunk though. As I said the fact that it's on talk radio means it gives me red flags.

PiKA2001 · #14 01-03-2011, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Drolefille

Yeah that makes a lot of sense, and I know it requires a lot of work to do on the front end in controlling spending and dedicating the money to the debt.

Good to know it's NOT total bunk though. As I said the fact that it's on talk radio means it gives me red flags.

Why do you say that? Political talk shows aside all of the financial guys like Ramsey and Clark Howard seem pretty legit as well as Kim Komando (Tech help) and "America on the Road"(cars/automotive).

Drolefille · #15 01-04-2011, 12:02 AM

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Why do you say that? Political talk shows aside all of the financial guys like Ramsey and Clark Howard seem pretty legit as well as Kim Komando (Tech help) and "America on the Road"(cars/automotive).

Kim Komando is generally accurate but is not a show for tech people but for very non-tech people. I wouldn't rely on her for advice myself, I go to better, primary sources. I don't listen to car shows except for catching Car Talk every now and then on NPR so no idea about America on the Road.

Any show where the host endorses products makes me less likely to trust their judgment, so that's a big part of it. It blurs the line between advertising and actual recommendations when someone whose job is to give advice "recommends" a product that is paying for their show.

Ramsey does that. I've never heard Howard. But it's a big thing in talk radio that annoys me and weakens the credibility.

Also when someone's selling themselves as a 'brand' that really works they're not exactly unbiased. I don't really know anyone who uses the method and hadn't gotten around to looking into it, so the only data point I have is himself and the people on his show, not an unbiased sample, ya know?