New Years Resolutions

In the past, like most everyone I've made lots of new years resolutions.  A couple of years ago I stopped.  I did this because I realized that if I wasn't going to keep them, there was no point.  Since then I've learned a little more about goal setting.  Proper goal setting requires a few things.  First, the goal has to be written.  Second the Goal has to be specific (writing it down helps with this).  Third, the goal has to be attainable.  With these three things in mind, here are my goals in no particular order for 2010.

1. Complete the Cowtown 1/2 marathon on February 27.
• I'm already training for this one
• My Longest training run is nine miles so I should be prepared by the end of February
2. Complete a full marathon while I'm still 30
• I have until April 9th to complete this
• I need to find a race and use my 1/2 traning time to prepare for the full marathon
3.  Increase our Mortgage business to five closings per month by March and ten per month by December.
   
• In order to complete this I have to contact all my former clients asking for referals
• I will make 15 calls per week to former clients
• I will mail something to them once per month
  
• I also have to nurture existing referral partner relationships
• I will contact 9 existing referral partners each week in addition to regular transactional contact
  
• I have to establish new referral partner relationships
• I will contact 15 potential new referral partners each week
• I will make presentations to groups of potential clients and referral partners at least once per month
• In each transaction I will strive to provide the right product for the client and will refuse to provide something to a client that I believe will harm them now or in the future 
  
• I will strive to keep the borrowers and other parties to the transaction informed at all times and be quick to deliver good news and faster to deliver bad news.
4. Become debt free except the house.
• We have to increase business as outlined above
  
• We have to sell the boat
• It's listed on Craigslist if you are looking for a nice Malibu Wakeboard Boat search my phone number 817-929-3584
• We have to payoff Jen's truck the remaining credit cards and other outstanding debts.
• Once this is complete, we can begin working on paying off the house but we will be ecstatic if we get everything but the house done in 2010.
5. Take the LSAT this summer and apply to the top five law schools on my list and three safety schools.
6. Make more time for my family.
• To do this I am going to have to make actually make mandatory date night mandatory.  No more excuses.
• I will also strive daily to find ways to make my beautiful and special wife feel as beautiful and special as she is.
  
7. Continue to keep my GPA up.
• In order to do this I need to do a better job of making time to study, specifically I need to make two hours per day, every day available for studying something for a class.
8.  Continue to find a place to serve at Church.
• I firmly believe that if you go to church regularly, the next step is to find a place to serve.  If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward.