Financial Goals:

1. Contribute $25.00 to our Roth IRA each paycheck.
2. Save $1,000.00 in our new House Fund.
3. Come up with a plan to save lots of money.
4. Automatically transfer 50% over our Root Income right to savings from each paycheck this month.
5. Look into more retirement investing options.

Blogging Goals:

1. Install CommentLuv to reward the bloggers who comment.
2. Try out Rafflecopter for my 2nd Blogiversary giveaway. Everybody seems to love it, so I figured I’d give it a shot.
3. Helping others: Tweet at least 40 great posts I find on other blogs.
4. Helping others: Retweet at least 10 tweets I like.
5. Find an additional way to reward for comments. Maybe one of those widgets that keeps track of who leaves the most comments.
6. Get some (even if it’s just a little) work done on fixing my weird site structure.
7. Manually (I know there are plug-ins for it, but they continue to lie to me) check every single outgoing link I’ve posted.
8. Create a blog roll. I should have done this a long time ago, but never got around to it. Apparently some blogs trade blog roll links—I should look into this. Still, I’ll only link to blogs I like—whether or not they reciprocate…isn’t that the point anyway? It would of course be really awesome if my favorite blogs linked back though…we’ll see.

Personal Goals:

1. Start keeping a food journal again, the last 2 months I stopped and gained weight each month. Coincidence? Not at all. If I can do it for a week straight, I’ll get back into the habit.
2. Create some kind of schedule for all my blogging tasks. Right now, I spend WAY too much time on blogging and all the other stuff that goes with it. It feels like it’s all I’m doing.
3. Go 1 day without touching my laptop or my iPad. Not sure if I can do this on purpose or not, but it’s worth a shot.
4. Read 3 or more books this month, so I don’t completely screw up on one of my 2012 goals.
5. Exercise at least 10 times in August. I feel so much better when I do, it’s just hard getting back into the flow, especially when you live in somebody else’s house.

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”  Les Brown

Please feel free to leave your monthly goals in the comments, then we can see how we all did when the month is over.