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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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Posts: 1304
| 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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 Three in a Bikini
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?
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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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Posts: 602
| 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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 Poor Cracker Girl
Posts: 12150
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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