The 5/25 rule

Everyone has goals and dreams. Everyone at some point works toward these goals and either  achieves them, or fails and maybe tries again. How many goals do you have? Have you even started working toward one of them?

I read a link from Warren Buffet; an American businessman, that you should write down the 25 most important things that you want to do in your life then narrow them down to your top 5 most important. Once you have chosen your top 5, you should never think of the other 20 again. In doing so, you're taking time and focus away from the 5 you deemed as most important.



Well, my life has been so scattered and I have had more distractions to even keep track of, that I felt doing this exercise would help me bring my focus back and also help with my readers to get to know me a little better.

With this, I decided to share my top 25 important goals with you all and narrow them down to my top 5:

1. Start my own business
2. Continue doing photography
3. Go back to school for accounting
4. Own a home and rent it out
5. Move to Columbus Ohio
6. Write a children's book, maybe series
7. Travel the world
8. Move to Florida
9. Become financially stable on my own
10. Continue to work out for my emotional/mental health
11. Create/maintain strong relationships
12. Read books and learn more
13. Use my time wisely
14. Take my children on adventures/ make memories
15. Focus on myself more
16. Be in a loving relationship

Ok, I'm not even kidding you, reaching to 16 goals was difficult, so maybe I don't have that many goals in my life like I thought I did. 

Anyway, out of these 16 goals, I think my top 5 would be:

1. Become financially stable on my own
2. Write a children's book/ series
3. go back to school for accounting
4. Take my children on adventures
5. Start my own business


I mean, a lot of my goals on the first list I can still do, but for now focusing on these 5 will help me achieve the other 11 goals I have listed. Travelling? Once I am financially stable we can still travel. Moving? Again, financial stability.

I'm not sure what type of business I'd like to start though. Baking? Clothing? We'll see.

The 5 goals I have chosen will help me, my children, and even help us into the future once they are achieved.

To add to my 5 goals, I am giving myself the next 11 months to straighten things out in order to achieve the goals I have made for myself.

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