Goals and Resolutions for 2014

So, it is 5 days into 2014 and I have yet to write out my goals and resolutions.  For sure, I need to work on my procrastination!  I've listed the things I want to work on and hopefully achieve by the end of 2014.  They are not in any particular order, but they are all of utmost importance to me.

FRIENDSHIPS AND RELATIONSHIPS:

• Learn to listen more carefully.
• Save my opinions for myself unless someone is hurting themselves in a reparable manner.
• Learn to not interrupt!
• Be more willing to try out activities with friends out of my comfort zone, try new things.
• Spend more quality time with people I love and less them dwelling on those who pissed me off.

HEALTHY EATING HABITS:

• Cook/prepare 80% of my meals with fresh, whole ingredients.
• Limit my meals out and junk food, alcohol and other foods that are not very healthful.
• Limit my portions of cookies, candy, cake/cupcakes and other treats.
• Try juicing/smoothies.

FITNESS GOALS:

• Continue exercising at least 3 times a week, 1 hour each session.  Hope to increase to 4 sessions a week this year.
• Start lifting/heavier strength training.
• Train for and participate in a running 5K.
• Reduce body fat to 28-30% of weight.  January 2013 I began at 43% and closed 2013 with 35.6%.

PERSONAL FINANCE:

• Set up a better budget and stick to the plan!  Continue saving in retirement funds and set up emergency funds.
• Reduce waste and maximize efficiency (i.e. stop overspending and making the most of what I do buy).
• Do the 52-week money jar challenge.  Week 1, save $1.  Week 2, save $2.  Week 3, save $3 and so forth.
• Give myself a more concrete incentive to exercise by paying myself $5 for each 1-hour exercise session, $2 for 30-45 minutes, and none for no exercise.  The money will be used for rewards if I stick to my plan.  (Hmm, maybe I need to make it more effective by removing money if I don't do my requisite 3 times a week...)

OTHERS, NO CATEGORY:

• Set up my happiness jar: It'll be a jar in which I add small slips of paper with things that made me happy throughout the year.
• To keep up with my household chores better: to never leave a pile of dishes in the sink and to get all the clean laundry put away quicker.
• Try at least 2 recipes I've pinned on Pinterest each month.
• Adopt a new habit of doing things as I go along rather than putting it off until later, or worse yet, when it's too late.
• Get 7 to 8 hours of sleep nightly.  Try to keep a reasonable sleep routine.

I suppose this is quite a comprehensive list of goals and achievements I hope to accomplish this year, but it is in no way limited to.  My main new motto in life is, "This is a work in progress.  There is always something else to improve."