MARCH 2021 GOAL UPDATE

We are already 1/4 done with 2021.  It could not have gone faster.  In January, I posed some goals for the year.  Take a look:  2021 Goals.  

 Let's see how my goals are coming along:

FINANCIAL GOALS

1. Add $10,000 to my investment account.   DONE!  Added $12,500 to my account!
2. See my dividend income increase by 10% from 2020.  So far up 8.1% from this time last year
3. Save $8,000 for bills in 2021.  Stuff happens.  Have $100 saved so far... 
4. Fulfill my goal of buying the equivalent in shares of what I spent in 2020 at the following: Met my goals for Costco, Home Depot, Mcdonalds, Starbucks, Kroger, and  AT&T.  (the leftovers will go towards 2022)  I just need to focus on Target (TGT)

PERSONAL GOALS

1. Go to Hawaii for 10 or more days.  I need beach.  Going for 11 days in August.  Phew.  My homa away from home.  Can't wait
2. Exercise more.   Walk 10,000 steps per day.  I am now up to over 8,000 steps per day on average and going up!
3. Drop about 30 lbs.  I am at 204 lb this morning of 1/1/21.  My doctor wants me to slim down.  My pants do too.  It's made my blood pressure creep up.  At 5'7", I need to be much lighter.  The walking will help.  So will goal # 4....  Down about 10.  On pace to lose 30 by my August vacation.  Beach body baby...
4. Eat very little sugar.  I am eating much more healthy recently.  
5. Sell off more of my record collection.   I am out of room.   Still getting more.  But did sell a few box sets.
6. Make more music and release an album..   Still working on it.  Titled my latest song "Skid Mark Karen"...
7. Work on front yard garden.  BAM!   Dug it up and weeded.  Layed down bark mulch.  Planted 4 blueberries, 2 raspberries, 4 lavenders, and placed a galvanized raised bed to have a permanent green onion supply.   Looking good!  Remember, this was a JUNGLE.

Posting this is keeping it real for me.