2020 was, in short, a shitshow. Am I right? However, at least for me personally, it wasn’t all bad. In fact, in reviewing my year through my One Second a Day video from 2020, I have to acknowledge that my 2020 was pretty dang great. I coached my first winter guard season for Parrish Community High, we went to Nashville, I got engaged, Jared and I bought a house, I spent a summer in the Keys with my parents and our dogs, I got my first teaching job with the absolute best group of kids, we went to almost every home Gator game, I reached the 250 club in Pure Barre, I became TikTok famous (follow me @sammyraejohnson), and I got to do all the wedding festivities a bride not in the middle of a pandemic would get to do surrounded by people who love me. Heck, I even got to go to Disney a few times!
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New Year’s Goals 2021
Every year I come up with a set of goals I want to achieve over the course of the coming year. I prefer the term goals to resolutions because it seems more achievable. Each goal I set for myself is specific and measurable, so by the time New Years Eve 2021 rolls around, I can evaluate whether I met them or not. Here’s a review of whether I met my 2020 New Year’s Goals and what I plan to achieve in 2021.
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This is definitely not a post I ever thought I’d be writing – yet here I am with ways to stay busy during this crazy quarantine. I’m the queen of staying busy. If I have any down time, I’m bored immediately and it drives me nuts. So clearly this quarantine is both a blessing and a curse. I have a ton of time to get things done, but I’m scared of the day that to-do list dwindles and I’m left with nothing else to do.
New Year’s Goals
I’m big on goal setting – it’s the enneagram Type 3 in me (No clue what I’m talking about? Take the quiz and find out what type you are). So naturally, I really get into the goal-setting mood as January 1st approaches. I decided to share the goals I set (I prefer goals to resolutions) at the start of 2019 and whether or not I achieved them. At the end I included my goals for 2020 – tbd on what I actually manage to achieve this coming year! Continue reading