Additional New Year Goals

Since this is really the first blog I have ever done I decided to do some research on some of the top blogs to get an idea on the best way to write these and make it interesting. In doing that research I came across Tynan's Blog and read a few of the newest posts and I was hooked. I think the thing that got me hooked to his blog right off was the fact that he lives in an RV and home is wherever he goes. The last few months I have been very interested in micro homes that people have been building. This is one of my favorite micro homes I have seen, and I think there are a lot of things in common between living in a 200 sq ft home and living in an RV and it seems like a nice minimalistic lifestyle I think I would enjoy.

After discovering his blog and reading a couple of the newest posts I decided to go back to when he first started living in an RV about 7 years ago. I then got to the point where he had sold his RV and just about everything else he had and decided to travel with world with a friend. They picked 6 cities around the world and planned 2 months to live in each one. This blog has given me food for thought going forward and helped me decide on some new goals going forward. I know you are thinking that it is too late for New Years resolutions or goals, but it's still early January and I'm allowed to change what I want!

I haven't really been happy the past few years with my situation at all. I haven't really had a job I enjoyed and haven't really been making the money I feel like I should be making. It is time for a change but not a change just saying I'm going to go out there and find another job that I think I may enjoy more. Instead I'm going to try to improve myself instead and gain new skills that will help me change my situation. Going forward my main goal for this year is to figure out a way to start making money online and working from home. I know this won't come easy right away and I will still need to keep a regular job for now, but I want to have the seed planted before the end of the year to start making money online. Once I am able to do that I can expand on it and eventually get to the point where I won't have to go to an office job everywhere, but instead be able to work from anywhere with an internet connection.

In order to better improve myself and get to this point I am going to start taking lessons online and researching coding and web design for at least an hour per day. I went to college for a couple years for computer programming and couldn't really stand the professors and their lack of teaching so I left. So I do have some experience in coding, but not really anything with web design. I think learning these skills along with trying to figure out a way to make money online will help better myself as well as get me to the point where I will be able to work from home and not have to worry about a real job again. I don't want to be rich, I just want to be able to be happy and do more stuff that I enjoy.

I talked about sticking to this blog earlier and still plan to do that as well and post at least once a week for now. I need to figure out how to get this blog out as well so more people can see and read it. Hopefully for now people will stumble upon it and enjoy my ramblings and keep reading, but for now I will keep posting at least once a week and see what happens.

I mentioned the 52 week challenge in my last post which at the end of it I would have $1328 saved up after the year. I plan on saving a bit more then that when possible as well. My sister is also planning to save according to this plan as well, and we are planning to turn this savings into a trip together and with any of our friends that want to join us. We talked the other day about what to do; I think we may plan a trip to Las Vegas in early 2015, and also trying to save money each year going forward according to this plan and make it a yearly trip.

For now those goals are being added to the ones mentioned before. I have never made any New Years resolutions and don't really consider these to be resolutions, but instead goals that I am going to work on to better myself and get me to a point where I will be more happy. I know this sounds a lot like a resolution, but goal sounds better to me!