So I like to separate my goals into like little 10-12 different sections or s. similar to the Level 10 Life by Hal Elrond but can be explained here by Masha Plans where I gather up different sections of my life and judge where I am at in each area of my life. This year I did 11 sections. Financial, Friends and Family aka Community, Career, Art and Creativity, Furcadia Dream, Health, Romance, Spirituality, Personal Development, Pets, and Fun and Recreation.
Now what follows is a long list with some doubling up. As you see here.
Financial
- Keep debt low or paid off
- Pay student loans every month
- Build an emergency fund
- Automatize savings
- Taxes
- Explore side hustles or passive income
- Increase contributions to ROTH IRA
- Track finances, income and expenditures
- Set up savings goals for fun things like Cruise, Hair, Trip to Tennessee, Trip to the Florida Keys, Trip to Goth and Daimon's Wedding
Friends and Family
- Setting and maintaining boundaries with people
- Stop trying to control people and protect them, let them grow as their own people
- Make time for art meetups, DSP Party meetups, Game Nights, and monthly meet ups with Miranda
- Find new friends from online to hang out with and connect with them
Career
- Take Leadership and business classes
- Attend art walks and art festivals to scout out artists for the store
- Learn how to make a museum store pretty and inviting
- Limit how much time I'm spending on discord while at work by setting timers to go and stretch and straighten things up
- Update portfolio and Curriculum Vitae
- Learn how to use one drive and Excel
Art and Creativity
- Create art on a regular basis
- Schedule and maintain art streaming
- Build and online website on Neocities to upload portfolio
- Enter contests, shows, and competitions
- Make stickers to sell
- Do art walk more consistently
- Collaborate with other artists
- Revisit or finish old or uncompleted art
- Have a record of art made and sold and location in an excel sheet
- Better packaging for when art sells at art walk
- Get 5+ commissions in a year
- Youtube art presence?
- Study art I admire
- Learn new skills like animation, weaving, and spinning
Furcadia Dream
- Make NPCs
- Heka City
- Underwater Village
- Underworld
- Revamp areas like the Llamedelos Estate and Spirit Realm
- Add more plants and animals and events
- Expand and publish Lore, maybe with art
- Youtube Presence
- RPR Presence
- Document progress and Player decisions and events to let them feel integrated into the world
- Expand admin and storytelling positions
- Streamline patches and DS
- Collaborate with others to help build dreams
Health
- Visit Gym more consistently, maybe reduce admission to just me
- Possibly join a gym class
- Be more proactive with getting medication from pharmacy
- Eat balanced and healthier meals
- Food Prep?
- Manage stress with mindfulness and hobbies
- Stop putting off Me-Days and make them nonproductive days
- Continue to document health and mental health in journal
- Complete AuDHD Journals and workbooks
- Make recipe books
Romance
- Resume Monthly dates
- Spend more time with Jeff and Eoghan separately
- Cuddle more
- Celebrate Birthdays and Anniversaries
Spirituality
- Celebrate the holidays more intentionally and even on my own if big parties cannot be held. Things do not have to be big productions
- Meditate with ancestors and deities
- Clean and rearrange my altar more
- Tarot every week
- Study more mythology, folk lore and historical practices
- Nature Walks
Personal Development
- Shadow work and mindfulness
- Practice more self-kindness
- Practice ADHD and Autism books
- Time Blocking for Self-care and focus
- Learn to say no or to tell people "Let me explore my feelings and energy on that" Before saying yes to everything
Pets
- Regular cleaning of cages and room, once a week
- Weekly Baths
- Document Wellness of each Bird
- Checkups 1-2 times a year
- Regular nail and beak trimmings (every three months)
- Make a weighing station and weigh them every day to document changes
Fun and Recreation
- Learn Neocities and HTML and CSS for indie web fun
- Cruise trip around Birthday
- Learn new hobbies like animating and weaving, or pick up embroidery again
- Day trips to new places
- Nostalgic activities I did as a kid
- Celebrate birthdays, and holidays, with friends and family
- Attend local events I like if my energy is in it such as local art events, pride month, casa del merman, punk rock flea markets, Halloween activities, and museums.
- Watch or read things I enjoy
- Roleplay, and participate in fandom activities
- Play other videogames aside from Furcadia
- Get myself smol guilt free treats
- Celebrate small wins and big wins
- Revamp and actually do my dopamine menu
Now this looks like a lot because it is! I am if anything, ambitious, however I easily burn out so like, I try to space things out and have some goals and tasks blend into each other to streamline things and reduce my work. For example, streaming art and working on patches for Furcadia? Why not knock both of those out by streaming it. Things like that. I’m also going to split things up and start slowly to ease into things by parts of the year as well as have a 5-week cyclic calendar of sorts? Something that blends the pagan wheel of the year with JashiiCorin’s 5-week cyclical calendar. I’ll expand that in later posts.
As far as boundaries? I’m learning to set better boundaries with people, especially people I feel that take advantage of me or others, and I decided that instead of confronting people and giving them the opportunity to gaslight me, lie, downplay or accuse me of being the offender, I’m just walking away. I cannot control other people, but I can teach myself does not tolerate bad treatment.