2016 GOALS! - A Frugal Family's Journey

New year means a fresh list of NEW goals!!

2015 was a decent year for our family.  Our net worth continued to grow this past year but with a relatively flat market and a few bad buys in oil and energy, we certainly did not see the same growth as we've been enjoying in years past. 

In all, we managed to accomplish 9 of our 12 goals from last year. 

1. We earned $3,000 in dividend income.
2. Our projected annual dividend exceeded $3,500.
3. We own more than 40 dividend producing stocks/ETFs.
4. We maintained a min. 6% ROI from our P2P notes.
5. We wrote more than 84 blog posts.
6. All time hits crossed the 150K mark.
7. Stock Analyses Collection grew above 800.
8. Cash out first $100 from Google AdSense.  

Although we are happy with these accomplishments, we hope to have an even more productive year in 2016. Similar to last year, we have split up our goals into different categories. What is different this year is that we've removed our P2P goals since our long term plan no longer includes growing our P2P accounts. We did, however, add a few "fun" goals to the list!  It our way of bringing a little sense of balance and enjoyment to our family's journey.

BELOW IS A LIST OF OUR NEW 2016 GOALS!!

DIVIDEND STOCKS:

1.  Earn $3,600 in dividend income.

2.  Increase projected annual dividend income to $4,100.

3.  Bring value of dividend stocks accounts to $90,000 total.

BLOG:

4.  Write at least 100 posts (8.33 posts/month).

5   Reach 350,000 total hits by end of the year.

6.  Reach 900 Twitter followers by end of the year.

7.  Cash out $200 from Google AdSense.
8.  Join DIV-NET or Seeking Alpha.

FINANCIAL MILESTONES:

9.    Increase value of retirement accounts to $450,000.

10.  Increase Net Worth to $675,000 (excluding home equity).

11.  Reduce mortgage balance to $292,000.

FUN GOALS:

12.  Try out 12 "new" restaurants/dessert place.

13.  Go on 26 hikes (1 every other week).
14.  Visit 3 new parks.
15.  Volunteer for a project/event (ex. beach clean up, clear hiking trail, race event, serve food, etc.)

We have created a landing page for our 2016 goals and plan to provide quarterly updates.  Please feel free to follow along and see our progress!!

2016 GOALS PAGE