I saw this project on Hello, Friend and with only 10 weeks until the end of the year (OMG! that is insane!) I thought I would participate.

The idea is that you write a list of 12 goals to achieve by the end of the year. They should be simple and achievable (since you have to do them by December 31st) but don’t wimp out, they do need to be real goals that you want to achieve otherwise what is the point.

My list

1. Make all 11 members of my family handmade Christmas presents
2. Book a new years holiday for Richard and I – nothing fancy just the chance to get away together quietly
3. Use social media for work and myself
4. Get my tattoo. I said after Katherine and Anthony’s wedding and since that just happened its time
5. Pay off as much debt as possible
6. Start researching and writing the blog post ideas I’ve been compiling
7. Go through all the old magazines and pull out articles/pictures I want to keep
8. Scan the items from 7
9. Give to one charity Christmas campaign per month for the next 3 months
10. Learn some more about WordPress and how I can do some fun, different things with my posts
11. Exercise five days a week – Pilates, walking, Wii Fit
12. Learn to leave work dramas at the door when I get home and not bring them inside

Now to get started on them!

After blogging for over a year you get used to a system, you can get complacent. You get use to knowing what to do, how to change the page, how to tweak the colours and eventually you get bored. Its the boredom that inspired me recently to move to WordPress.

That is all well and good but I say now unless you are/have a technical mind like my Richard throw money at it. I am a firm believer in getting the right person for the job and when it comes to building your blog definitely get skilled help. There was still plenty for me to do but when all I want to do is have it looking pretty so I can get writing its hard. You will spend a lot of time looking at the blog so its terribly important to get something you love. This blog will change over the years I spend here but I am so glad to have Richard here to help me through this process.