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Location: SW MO | I have been planning for 2018 and wanted to see if anyone else wanted to share their goal setting and planning or strategies for 2018.
I know this past year has broken and blessed me. I have learned so much and can't wait to get the new year kicked off. I am working on setting my goals into categories: Professional, Financial, Physical, Familial, Horsemanship, and Educational. Professionally, I sell cars as a career now and I want to improve my selling skills so I am looking at educational tools for that. Financially, in 2018 I want to max out my Roth IRA. Physically I want to redo my fitness and meal plans. Spend more time with family. Remake my schedule for my weeks and days. Horsemanship/Barrel racing: I want to take more lessons and attend a clinic this year.
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| I was busy with other things most of this year but a goal of mine is to get my horse legged up and keep him legged up long enough to go to several jackpots and a couple of big shows. Goal number 2 is to get at least one possibly two other horses started and hauling. |
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Location: on the fine line between insanity and geniusness | 2018 will be a year of organization for me as I will be wearing more hats than I’ve ever tried to juggle. For the first time in my life I will be a wife, mother, and a nursing student. It’s been a LONG time since I’ve been in school, so I’d be lying if I told you I wasn’t nervous! My goal is to kill it and graduate in the top 5 in my class! |
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| I like how you broke them out into categories! I think I'll have to try that this year! |
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Location: SW MO | Ashley Lynn - 2017-12-28 1:44 PM
2018 will be a year of organization for me as I will be wearing more hats than I’ve ever tried to juggle. For the first time in my life I will be a wife, mother, and a nursing student. It’s been a LONG time since I’ve been in school, so I’d be lying if I told you I wasn’t nervous! My goal is to kill it and graduate in the top 5 in my class!
That is exciting! I'm sure you can do it! I am trying to organize this year so that I can make sure I am on track. I want to do big things this year but they are going to take organization and effort |
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| Yes. Make it to 2019 with less broadside skidding through life than 2017. Aiming for a more structured, planned out approach than the usual leaping before looking life decisions that I'm becoming famous for with my friends and family. |
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Location: SW MO | classicpotatochip - 2017-12-28 2:28 PM
Yes. Make it to 2019 with less broadside skidding through life than 2017. Aiming for a more structured, planned out approach than the usual leaping before looking life decisions that I'm becoming famous for with my friends and family.
I am the same way!!
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I want to have a good show season with Audie. Having him out all year kind of left me lost for the year. Most of my day revolves around brushing and show prep. I want to try for the Hi Point Rookie in Hunter Under Saddle for our state AQHA awards. And Nov Am Showmanship Hi Point. I was Reserve one year and only went to 1/2 the shows as the woman that beat me out.
I would love to get my drive to ride back. That way I can finish my colt and try and hit some of the fall futurities.
I also hope to find my son a decent all around horse. One he can ranch on and do the shows with me as well as 4H.
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 Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | 2017 was a great year for me! It started with a bang - winning 2nd at the toughest amatuer rodeo around on New Year's Eve - and we closed the 2017 rodeo season with Chance aka the gray monster winning the average and 2 rounds at the United Rodeo Association Finals in November. I also found my real calling in life as a high school special education teacher and Matt popped THE question earlier this month. Let's just call it a banner year!
My 2 big barrel racing goals for 2018 are to win the Interstates Rodeo Association title - I have finished 3rd, 4th, and 2nd, but never 1st - and to qualify for the URA Finals again. So very many things have to fall your way to win the URA that it's not even a goal I will write down.
Matt and I want to expand/continue our side business of riding/training/tuning outside horses. We started taking in outside horses in August and have enjoyed watching ones we've ridden put smiles on their owners' faces.
Personally, we're going to be getting married in 2018 - probably late in the spring - so maybe my first goal needs to be finding a dress! LOL
I am going to be taking more graduate classes to become certified to teach Special Education starting next month so another goal of mine is to successfully balance being a student, teacher, fiancee/wife, and barrel racer. It might make for some long days!
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | 2017 was a good year for me. I graduated vet school and started my dream job.
For 2018 my goals aren't too crazy... I want to continue to grow my clientele base at work and get busier. I am getting married in April!
I want to save as much money as I can while paying off my enormous student loan balance...yay me.
I plan to haul my first home grown baby I've kept myself. We entered one Futurity this year and that'll probably be it due to my work schedule and amount of bills I have *thanksvetschool* |
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| I just want to get my Daycare up and running well. That's it for me. |
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Posts: 11511
Location: 31 lengths farms | I just bought a book at Barnes & Noble with some goal setting ideas, how to break them down and ecouraging sayings with monthly calendars to keep track of the mini steps you are taking to get to your bigger goals.
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | number 1 goal
Stop waking up not knowing where my pants are at.
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | 1DSoon - 2017-12-28 3:27 PM number 1 goal
Stop waking up not knowing where my pants are at.
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Location: SW MO | rodeowithjoker - 2017-12-28 3:08 PM
2017 was a great year for me! It started with a bang - winning 2nd at the toughest amatuer rodeo around on New Year's Eve - and we closed the 2017 rodeo season with Chance aka the gray monster winning the average and 2 rounds at the United Rodeo Association Finals in November. I also found my real calling in life as a high school special education teacher and Matt popped THE question earlier this month. Let's just call it a banner year!
My 2 big barrel racing goals for 2018 are to win the Interstates Rodeo Association title - I have finished 3rd, 4th, and 2nd, but never 1st - and to qualify for the URA Finals again. So very many things have to fall your way to win the URA that it's not even a goal I will write down.
Matt and I want to expand/continue our side business of riding/training/tuning outside horses. We started taking in outside horses in August and have enjoyed watching ones we've ridden put smiles on their owners' faces.
Personally, we're going to be getting married in 2018 - probably late in the spring - so maybe my first goal needs to be finding a dress! LOL
I am going to be taking more graduate classes to become certified to teach Special Education starting next month so another goal of mine is to successfully balance being a student, teacher, fiancee/wife, and barrel racer. It might make for some long days!
That’s so awesome! One of my goals is to find a prospect that I can start and hopefully take to some rodeos this year. I think we are in a similar area of the Midwest, if you know of anything could you send me a pm? TIA and good luck in KC if you’re up there this weekend |
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Location: Dearing, GA | This will be the first year that I haven't made a horse-centered goal in over 10 years. I am horseless going into 2018.
I'd really like to finish paying off my credit cards- I have just over $1,000 left to pay off. It sounds easy, but I'm also paying on my student loans every months and those are really killer.
I'd also like to lose 20 lbs., and keep my car clean enough to where I don't apologize every time someone else gets in it.
Other than that, I want to stay focused on my relationship with Christ, and use that to fuel my personal relationships. 2017 has been a blessing, and I look forward to what the new year brings! |
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 Nothing Comes Easy
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Location: Texas | Oh 2017.... it's been a roller coaster ride right up until the end. I'm hoping for better news at the start of 2018. This past year I stepped away from barrel racing and only showed in hand or western. My paint gelding that I bred and raised took Reserve Champion at both circuits for our local shows, and several Reserve High Points throughout the year. One small goal I set was to place first in showmanship and in hand trail with him-- we accomplished this and more. I entered the year with a focus on my horsemanship while finishing out my 5 year old grey mare and started to challenge her with other disciplines. We showed her a handful of times this year, while she's currently baking me my Fly the Red Eye baby. Expected in February. 
In 2018, I hope to focus on improving my eating habits. I also plan to get my CHPN certification for work.
I'll be starting my paint gelding under saddle this spring. When he goes on break, I'll start my grey mare back up and focus on all around. My goal is to show her WT All Around this Fall.
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Location: Somewhere around here | 1. Get back to weighing 130-135 (only 5 lbs away!)
2. Send my horse to the trainer at the end of winter
3. Either finally make things work with staff horse it sell him with trainers help
4. Buy a new horse, hopefully not another sorrel
5. If I keep sorrel horse, then start to finally have fun at jackpots
6. Have no hospital visits and to pay off all previous hospital bills
7. Have a fun and loving year with my two girls and husband
8. Be closer to God and pray more
How am I going to do all of this? I have no idea. |
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| The biggest goal we have is to get our barn house built and move out of my in-laws' place. Getting stalls with runs built on our property will allow us to move our horses home, and get rid of the boarding bill, which we can then use that money towards our mortgage and try to keep our debts down.
We plan on doing more advertising for my husband's equine vet practice, and hopefully keep increasing his clientele. Having a treatment area with a stall or two for ICU cases and colics on fluids would be an asset to our community, so I look forward to that aspect of our barn house as well.
I was training for a marathon before I got hurt a couple years ago, so I plan on busting out my running shoes (finally again!) and continue practicing yoga. I would also like to do at least one sprint tri, and go cycling more.
Horse wise, I hope for healthy foals and mamas this spring. I have a coming 4yo filly that I'll be sending off to the trainer for 30 days, and there are a couple things I want to fine tune with her before she leaves.
I want to focus more on meditation, letting myself just be present and not always rushing, rushing, rushing. I am very impatient, so I would like to stop and smell the roses more.
I wish everyone the best with their goals! |
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| Stride - 2017-12-29 8:01 PM
Oh 2017.... it's been a roller coaster ride right up until the end. I'm hoping for better news at the start of 2018. This past year I stepped away from barrel racing and only showed in hand or western. My paint gelding that I bred and raised took Reserve Champion at both circuits for our local shows, and several Reserve High Points throughout the year. One small goal I set was to place first in showmanship and in hand trail with him-- we accomplished this and more. I entered the year with a focus on my horsemanship while finishing out my 5 year old grey mare and started to challenge her with other disciplines. We showed her a handful of times this year, while she's currently baking me my Fly the Red Eye baby. Expected in February. In 2018, I hope to focus on improving my eating habits. I also plan to get my CHPN certification for work.
I'll be starting my paint gelding under saddle this spring. When he goes on break, I'll start my grey mare back up and focus on all around. My goal is to show her WT All Around this Fall.
My trainer has a Fly The Red Eye baby and I think he is the best looking weanling there. Sounds like you had a good year. |
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| I hope to get all of my mares bred. That would be sensational. Watch my 6 year old improve and get her qualified for the World Show again. Get my 5 year old qualified for the World Show. Last year will be hard to repeat but we are going to try. Three world championships will be pretty hard to repeat. Sure is fun though. |
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Posts: 897
| Chip away at my dogs vet bill, tore two acl's...
Eat healthier
Go on more dates with my husband
Keep my car cleaner
Take as many lessons as I can and constantly improve horsemanship skills |
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| 1. Move up from the playday to the jackpot level of competition.
2. Continue improving my horsemanship skills so I can get a younger horse that is started on barrels in a year or so and have the proper skills to finish it.
3. Get the rest of my dissertation published.
4. Expand my beading hobby for more than just myself and hopefully get my Etsy shop going.
5. Get the facility I run operating like a well oiled machine.
6. Pass my certification exam for my career.
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| It's hard setting and sticking to goals but some that I've thought about often, or have planned for 2018 are:
1. Continue to grow my relationship with God and be as good of a person as I can.
2. Pass an exam in a month that will allow me to write nutrient management plans in my state..super nervous. And learn a lot in my farm job throughout the year, during a USDA funded program we're doing this summer, and during the spring season as I wasn't employed here last year.
4. Ride my "new" horse I got in August atleast 2-3 times a week, bond with him, keep him in shape, and play around with starting him on the pattern to see if it's for him or not!
5. Grow my own garden this year and get chickens in the spring.
6. Do something for my ailing home state of WV even if it's small.
7. Continue a good relationship with the best man I could've ever asked for.
8. Start a Roth IRA |
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Posts: 1409
Location: Oklahoma | one of my goals is to do something different, like zip line, go to new places and not be such a home body |
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Posts: 456
Location: SW MO | All of these are awesome! I have a ton of goals for this year. But writing them down, dividing them up, and setting reminders and deadlines should help me a bit. I need to find a planner that I really like to use and stick to that so I can keep everything straight. Hope you all have a great new year! |
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Posts: 2035
| I love how you have broken it down into categories...
Professional:
Continued growth in my career. I am 1 year in at a new position, and there is still plenty for me to learn on the daily basis.
Financial:
Become debt free. We are so close I can taste it.
Physical:
Survive pregnancy.
Familial:
See above. XD
Horsemanship:
Get back to it in the fall/winter. My goals are on the back burner for now, but we came so far in 2017 that I can hardly stand to wait.
Educational:
Look at PhD program options for either A) Food Science, or B) Animal Nutrition. This is more of a 5 year goal for me. But the first step is seeing what is out there! |
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Am I really the Weirdo?
Posts: 11181
Location: Kansas | UMzbradford - 2017-12-29 1:04 PM rodeowithjoker - 2017-12-28 3:08 PM 2017 was a great year for me! It started with a bang - winning 2nd at the toughest amatuer rodeo around on New Year's Eve - and we closed the 2017 rodeo season with Chance aka the gray monster winning the average and 2 rounds at the United Rodeo Association Finals in November. I also found my real calling in life as a high school special education teacher and Matt popped THE question earlier this month. Let's just call it a banner year!
My 2 big barrel racing goals for 2018 are to win the Interstates Rodeo Association title - I have finished 3rd, 4th, and 2nd, but never 1st - and to qualify for the URA Finals again. So very many things have to fall your way to win the URA that it's not even a goal I will write down.
Matt and I want to expand/continue our side business of riding/training/tuning outside horses. We started taking in outside horses in August and have enjoyed watching ones we've ridden put smiles on their owners' faces.
Personally, we're going to be getting married in 2018 - probably late in the spring - so maybe my first goal needs to be finding a dress! LOL
I am going to be taking more graduate classes to become certified to teach Special Education starting next month so another goal of mine is to successfully balance being a student, teacher, fiancee/wife, and barrel racer. It might make for some long days! That’s so awesome! One of my goals is to find a prospect that I can start and hopefully take to some rodeos this year. I think we are in a similar area of the Midwest, if you know of anything could you send me a pm? TIA and good luck in KC if you’re up there this weekend
Thank you! I did run at KC this weekend. Chance got a 5th the 1st night and 3rd last night so it was a great weekend.
I'll keep my eyes open for a prospect and let you know if I hear of anything. |
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| My goals
1. To run at every race within an association. (10 races)
2. Compete in pole bending at least once. I heard my new horse is a kick a** pole bender.
3. Help my 6 yr old start barrel racing. She wants to compete in the pee wee classes at big barrel races with me.
4. Go camping this year
5. Going to apply for a new job. Been at my current one for over 5 years. Time for change! |
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Good Ole Boys just Fine with Me
Posts: 2869
Location: SE Missouri | 2017 taught me a lot. I had several firsts, several lessons and, lots of memories. I guess my type of resolutions shifted with that.
1. Thank God everyday for the blessings in my life. Pray for forgiveness, guidance, and favor. Pray for family, friends, customers, and acquaintances.
2. I told a leap of faith (couldn’t have made it come together any better if I tried) and started my own crop insurance company. A resolution is to build a successful business and maintain a life outside of work with lots of family, friends, and some barrel races. Part of why I left a great company and a pretty good shot of continuing to move up the ladder was NO life. I traveled four states all the time and basically been on the road for five years. I love my farmer customers, they are more like family now so I do NOT want a separation of work-life. It doesn’t work in my business and celebrating their victories and being there in rough patches is just part of it. I’m lucky that they encourage me to go see family, go run barrels, bug me about us having a baby, and go on my crazy solo camping adventures. They are special to me.
3. Take better care of the blessing I’ve been given . From my health, hubby, friends, our property, horses, and running my mare. Give it all to God and do the very best I can with each one every day and it will all work out.
4. Go to every Lucky Dog race and purchasing my permit is the only measurable goal I set.
Different than my normal resolutions that just seem to add more stress. A year of Thanksgiving is what I’m going for.
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Location: Feeding mosquitos, FL | 2017 was great professionally, great personally, generally terrible on the horse front, but 2018 is looking up!
1. Professionally: Survive the impending retirement and replacement of my supervisor and mentor. Super nervous cause the last time this happened was super extra not good very bad horrible. Stretch goal is to get promoted and take his job!
2. Personally: Work on my wife skills and support my husband to be comfortable on a potential trip to Europe. Get the back six acres bought. Fence and cross-fence.
3. Horse: Sell somebody to get back down to three. Season my new mare and maybe go somewhere multi-day towards the end of the year. Conquer the first barrel at least 3/4 speed on my gelding. |
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Am I really the Weirdo?
Posts: 11181
Location: Kansas | rodeowithjoker - 2017-12-28 3:08 PM 2017 was a great year for me! It started with a bang - winning 2nd at the toughest amatuer rodeo around on New Year's Eve - and we closed the 2017 rodeo season with Chance aka the gray monster winning the average and 2 rounds at the United Rodeo Association Finals in November. I also found my real calling in life as a high school special education teacher and Matt popped THE question earlier this month. Let's just call it a banner year!
My 2 big barrel racing goals for 2018 are to win the Interstates Rodeo Association title - I have finished 3rd, 4th, and 2nd, but never 1st - and to qualify for the URA Finals again. So very many things have to fall your way to win the URA that it's not even a goal I will write down.
Matt and I want to expand/continue our side business of riding/training/tuning outside horses. We started taking in outside horses in August and have enjoyed watching ones we've ridden put smiles on their owners' faces.
Personally, we're going to be getting married in 2018 - probably late in the spring - so maybe my first goal needs to be finding a dress! LOL
I am going to be taking more graduate classes to become certified to teach Special Education starting next month so another goal of mine is to successfully balance being a student, teacher, fiancee/wife, and barrel racer. It might make for some long days!
And now I've added a new goal to the list: fill my WPRA permit. I have talked about buying it for several years but finally took the plunge and am looking at entering a rodeo in 3 weeks. I won URA & IRA money on 3 different horses last year so hopefully I have loaded up on horsepower enough to fill my permit quickly and see how the year goes. |
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You get what you give
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Location: Texas | casualdust07 - 2017-12-28 3:24 PM 2017 was a good year for me. I graduated vet school and started my dream job. For 2018 my goals aren't too crazy... I want to continue to grow my clientele base at work and get busier. I am getting married in April! I want to save as much money as I can while paying off my enormous student loan balance...yay me. I plan to haul my first home grown baby I've kept myself. We entered one Futurity this year and that'll probably be it due to my work schedule and amount of bills I have *thanksvetschool*
Well, my baby Lulu won 5th in the 1D out of 150 horses her second time to enter competition at the end of December, 2017. Felt pretty good about entering the futurity... bleh. It went OK. The first day she was at the bottom of the 1D but caught the third leaving. Second day, she slipped at the first and hit the barrel leaving it too, and then got anxious and started over working the rest of the pattern so I slowed her down since we already had a no time. Long story short, glad I entered the futurity, had a fun time doing it, but I am definitely more comfortable just staying local for a while and maybe picking a few big shows to go to with less pressure than a futurity entry. Next time, if I ever want to, I may just save up and send them with a professional!
Here's her run where she placed in the 1D:
https://youtu.be/Dwd_CkCCfpI |
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