7 Goals I’m Shooting for by the End of the Year

Wow, I can’t believe that its almost September already. Next week I actually turn 27 years old and I can’t believe it, but I’m starting to feel old! Over the past few weeks I’ve been thinking quite a bit about some things that I want to accomplish by the end of this year. It seems as though I always think about alot of stuff but I never accomplish everything that I want to. So earlier this evening I sat down and wrote a list of 7 goals that I want to accomplish by the end of this year. I read a great post from Amit Mehta about setting your own goals and thinking about them everyday that ultimately made be decide to create my own list of goals.  So now moving forward here is my list of goals in no particular order that I’m going to print out and hang by my computer for me to look at each day. On New Years Eve of this year I’m going to write a post regarding what I’ve accomplished on this list and I sincerely hope that I’ve accomplished all of them to some degree.

• Grow My Affiliate Marketing Income - I’m setting my monthly income goal of at least $2,000 a month. Now I know that may seem very small compared to some, but I think that’s a great goal to set my sights on. Currently I don’t do as well as I’d like with this, but I’ve got a lot of great ideas and I think I can definitely reach this goal.

• Improve Upon My Web Design Skills - I really do enjoy web design and I’m going to work very hard to improve my skills over the next few months. Basically my main goal is to be able to design my layouts completely with CSS as opposed to using tables for my layouts. I’ll be the first to admit that once you get into the habit of using tables for overall layout, then it gets to be a very hard habit to break.

• Learn Some Application Development - Right now this is one of my weakest areas that I want to improve upon. I do a decent amount of Coldfusion work at my day job, but I really want to get into some PHP stuff as well. I’ve always been extremely interested in PHP, but I’ve just never taken the time to sit down and really learn it. Maybe I’ll have to check out one of the books in Anthony’s Bookstore.  If I get good enough and have the time I might even just develop my own Wordpress Theme as well.

• Increase My Knowledge of PPC and SEO - These are some areas that I can definitely benefit from having more knowledge in.  Its extremely important that I continue to gain knowledge in these areas as they are constantly changing each day.   I think most likely I’ll look into some professional pay per click certification programs from Google and Yahoo to complete.  On the SEO side of things I’m going to continue to read some of my favorite SEO blogs on a daily basis and will probably sign up for a SEOmoz premium membership.

• Attract More Readers and Subscribers to My Blog - I haven’t fully decided how I’m going to accomplish this one yet, but I’ve got some ideas so we’ll just have to see how they workout over the next few months!

• Get Back Into Physical Shape - Before this summer I was actually doing pretty well with this one, but then I got busy with busy with buying a house and other things and I’ve been slacking lately.  Well its apparent that I’m not getting any younger especially with my upcoming birthday and I really just want to take care of myself and eat better to make sure I’m in the best shape that I can be.  This should not be a problem to accomplish and I plan on being in the best shape of my life by the end of the year.

• Spend More Time with My Wife - Sometime this gets overlooked by both of us since we are busy, but I’m definitely going to make every attempt to spend as much quality time with her that I can.   You never know how much time you actually have with someone, so I’m going to work as hard as I can to make the most of all the time that I get to be with her.

Well that may seem like a big list with alot of stuff,  but I’ve got confidence in myself to get it done and I’m going to work at it each day.   If you haven’t set some goals for yourself, then I challenge you to create some and see how you end up at the end of the year like me!