Money and Finance
I hope you had a great Christmas. These are my goals for 2015.
Investing Goals
1) Have a 12 month annual expected dividend of $1,500.
2) Receive $1,000 in dividends.
3) Create asharebuilder Motif Loyal 3 account and invest regularly in defensive stock. I'm waiting for next year to avoid having a 1099 with 5 days left in the year. So far I'm thinking of buying K, GIS, UL, Krft, KO, PEP, DPS, Intel, starbucks, and yum. $100 each to start out and we'll see how it goes from there. I'm always open to ideas.
4) 40k in net worth.
Employment Goals
1) Get promoted to XXX II. I am XXX I. There are over 1000 XXX I at my work place and only 10 are promoted each year to XXX II every year. So I have 1% to get the job.
2) Make for the first time in my life $100,000 annual income before taxes. After taxes that's $20k! Work 140 hours every 2 week pay period and hammer 8 hours every holidays. (note: I will probably not achieve this goal).
3) Take on 4 new projects.
4) Telework!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Physical Goals
1) Lose 20 pounds. My sister bought a Wii Fit U this Christmas. I tried it and it told me I was Obese. My body's age was 44 (note I'm 26). My goal is to work out on the Wii U every day 30 minutes-1 hour and lose them pounds. For those wondering, I hate running on treadmills and I have problems with gyms...social anxiety is a horrible thing.
Education Goals
1) Learn some IT skills. My work place is willing to pay for a software testing certificate from Villanova. I might just go for it.
Other Goals
1) Build a patio. I might take a picture once I'm finished....if I ever learn how to use the camera on my phone.
2) Take a vacation or staycation (by law, contractors for the federal government have to take X amount of vacation every 2 years to avoid NLRB issues).
3) Landscape my parent's house. By landscape I mean plant some trees (Christmas trees) and open up the flower garden to become a mini garden.
4) Write a few posts on how to get more bang for your buck (saving).
4) Grill more!
I will probably not meet most of these goals but it's always good to have goals you can't achieve.
Also I had a Turkey viewer yesterday. Hi Turkey.
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Money and Finance
NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS + HAPPY NEW YEAR
I hope you had a great Christmas. These are my goals for 2015.
Investing Goals
1) Have a 12 month annual expected dividend of $1,500.
2) Receive $1,000 in dividends.
3) Create a
4) 40k in net worth.
Employment Goals
1) Get promoted to XXX II. I am XXX I. There are over 1000 XXX I at my work place and only 10 are promoted each year to XXX II every year. So I have 1% to get the job.
2) Make for the first time in my life $100,000 annual income before taxes. After taxes that's $20k! Work 140 hours every 2 week pay period and hammer 8 hours every holidays. (note: I will probably not achieve this goal).
3) Take on 4 new projects.
4) Telework!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Physical Goals
1) Lose 20 pounds. My sister bought a Wii Fit U this Christmas. I tried it and it told me I was Obese. My body's age was 44 (note I'm 26). My goal is to work out on the Wii U every day 30 minutes-1 hour and lose them pounds. For those wondering, I hate running on treadmills and I have problems with gyms...social anxiety is a horrible thing.
Education Goals
1) Learn some IT skills. My work place is willing to pay for a software testing certificate from Villanova. I might just go for it.
Other Goals
1) Build a patio. I might take a picture once I'm finished....if I ever learn how to use the camera on my phone.
2) Take a vacation or staycation (by law, contractors for the federal government have to take X amount of vacation every 2 years to avoid NLRB issues).
3) Landscape my parent's house. By landscape I mean plant some trees (Christmas trees) and open up the flower garden to become a mini garden.
4) Write a few posts on how to get more bang for your buck (saving).
4) Grill more!
I will probably not meet most of these goals but it's always good to have goals you can't achieve.
Also I had a Turkey viewer yesterday. Hi Turkey.
- Weekly Roundup - November 1, 2014
October has been a crazy month and I can't believe that it's already done with. I didn't get to take advantage of the market selloff, well at least not with larger purchases, because investing was hardly my priority for the month. Essentially...
- 2014 Goals
Last week I reviewed how I did on all of my goals for 2013. From a financial perspective it was a resounding success without any huge misses. The goals I'm most proud of was hitting an 80% savings mark for the year and the huge net worth increase....
- Long-term Dividend Goals
If you happened to notice on my Goals page I've updated it some to reflect my long-term dividend goals. In this post I'll detail where and how I calculated the numbers for my dividends. The Dividend Goal is the amount of forward 12-month dividends...
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Hi Everyone, While at work today, my employer sent out a corporate email stating that our performance review meetings are coming up. Performance reviews are basically a way for the company to tell you what you are worth to them. Every year...
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