Updated Aims

Okay, so i've updated my aims based on what has happened in the last six months. It's not always been good, but I've still moved forward with my plans for the next half decade, a time which should see me move into a new era of my adult life.

2012
So far I've:
-got my dream job
-arranged private education for my children (in the future, via my job)
-moved into a lovely house and put together the family cinema room that I'd put as an aim for 2015
-put together a website at www.mrhalton.co.uk

I still aim to:
achieve 60 blog posts on power parents, help my lad to complete his Year One assessments on www.ixl.com maths (he'll be two years ahead when he starts school full-time in September), and get the new house looking perfect for Christmas, sell £100 worth of hand made goods on www.etsy.com, have my carpentry featured on a blog

2013
sell 100 copies of my book, teach my son to read to a high level, teach my daughter to count to 20, buy a MacBook Air, expand my Summer School to four weeks with ten pupils attending each week, sell £1000 of hand made goods on www.etsy.com

2014
Upgrade my car, take a fantastic holiday to Japan, make £3000 from my blog, sell 500 copies of my book, take my son to karate lessons once a week, design and build a dream bedroom with my daughter, save £10,000 in a year, ensure that every piece of furniture in my house is a piece I'll want to keep for the rest of my life

2015
buy and restore a camper van with my son, take a camper van holiday every weekend during the summer, move house to a larger property with potential for a games room and home cinema a jacuzzi and a swimming pool, gain a promotion at work, employ a member of staff for my Summer School

All of these are broadly things I believe I could do in the next year; but I'm realistic, and an adult, and I know that my timescale has to relate to what I can reasonably expect to achieve.

I've already had successes this year, and this list of aims has helped me more than once. Money is still tight and a while back I saw a reduced MacBook Air in John Lewis. The old me- the me with no real plans for life would have bought it, and indeed I came really close to doing so. But I walked outside the shop, came to this blog on my phone, and reminded myself of when I had aimed to buy that specific gorgeous piece of technology. I'm £699 better off because of my plans as laid out here, and my wallet is thankful!

Make yourself a plan today. Work on each micro-step carefully, and achieve more than you originally set out to do. You'll be a great role model for your children and you will be successful.

Believe and achieve!