Yes, I'd love to declare my goals and track my progress.     I am mulling them over, too, because I want to make them realistic.

So far my practical goals include things like working out a stretching routine, going to ballet 2-3 times a week, trying new vegetarian main dish recipes and increasing our savings rate.  I'll come up with specifics, but those are some of my ideas.

Others involve things like figuring out how to simplify my things and surroundings (an on-going process/battle for me) and figuring out how to live more peacefully or on a more even keel day  to day.  Hmmm....

What kinds of things are you girls thinking about as 2008 rolls around?  Health?  Family?  Career?  Finances?  Spirit?

That's a good idea Jen! And we should definitely do that........check back in.

Sometimes I think just talking about things helps create enough energy to actually make it happen; DH and I increased his 401k savings rate by 1% yesterday.  I don't think we'll feel a big difference in the take-home pay, but if we do we'll make adjustments.  I'd still like to save a bit more on my end each month, but this is a big step in the right direction for us.

My 2008 Goals..

Continue to build my business
exercise regularly for health and to lose weight
Buy a home
Spend more time with family and friends
Make a new frantance( more than an aquatance... but not quite a friend) every week.

1.) I got and started the new job.
2.) If all goes as planned, we will be closing on our new out in the next couple of weeks.
3.) Have totally slacked off on #3.
4.) Still doing well with #4
5.) Have to work on #5 as well.

I continue to work on control, or rather, letting go of it and perhaps even realizing that I don't have it in the first place.  It's a tricky issue for me - always has been, and I need to get a handle on it.

I've been to ballet 15 times since the new year began, which comes out to about twice a week on average.  A couple of weeks with just one class really bring down the average.  Grr...  But I went twice last week and should be able to go three times this week, and then twice again next week.

Tried a new recipe yesterday and liked it, which is a plus.

Need to stretch more - more often, and for more minutes.  I feel like the stiffest person in the room in class and it's embarrassing.  I fear that I will never get really flexible, but I can do more to help myself with that before I resign myself to anything.  I'm taking a stretch class this week in place of a regular class, which should be extremely challenging for me.