No joke, the first quarter of 2019 is over and done with. It's pure madness. As many other bloggers do, I thought I'd take the chance to look and see how I'm progressing through the goals that I set back at the beginning of the year.
General Content
While I was fired up at the beginning of the year, I did find myself falling back into old habits. It may be anticlimactic, but I take comfort in the fact that I'm hardly the first person to fall victim to this.
Still, I did manage to knock both "The X-Files" and the first season of "Castle Rock" off the to do list. The latter was just under the wire, but done is done; and I'm done...until season 2 hits.
Reading
I knocked two books off the list. The first was "Elevation" and the second was "America the Edible" by Adam Richman. I'm behind schedule, but my reading is up from last year; so that's a plus. I'm also currently working my way through "Path of the Assassin" by Brad Thor so I am starting to get back into the groove, as it were.
I also read "The Infinity Gauntlet" knocking one item off of my graphic novel goal as well.
Savings and Dividend Challenges
The first quarter's finances were focused on the acquisition of a car. As the down payment is often hefty, I wasn't able to make much in the way of stock purchases or transfers.
My forward income is about where it was at the start of the year. I'm also a bit behind on the savings challenges. Well, a bit behind on the online account. My primary savings account took a hefty hit, so I have to re-do portions of last year's challenge and get back up to speed on this year's.
Car
Speaking of, I did achieve this goal! I'll go into more detail in tomorrow's post, but it's nice to get that out of the way. I do have some new bills each month, but with the down payment out of the way, I was able to re-set my weekly transfers to my brokerage and online checking accounts, so we should be getting back on track in the months to come.
Side Hustle
Thus far, I've made $12 in side hustle. Given how Apptrailers and Epoll work, this is about where I expected it to be at this point. As noted in the docket, Reviewstream is going to by the make or break factor in achieving this goal. Until I can shift my attention to that, the number won't be that impressive.
Swagbucks
I have put some points into charities, but I definitely need to do more. I didn't have a specific goal on this one, so whether I'm ahead or behind schedule is hard to determine. I just know that more needs to be done.
Retirement
The head start is done. With my birthday having passed by earlier in March, the five year race to have three times my salary saved has begun. I'm 2% of the way there so we'll see how things go. Five years is a long time, but it is still kind of sad to no longer be in "head start" territory anymore.
Goal Revision
I had set a 3 year goal of creating dividend income that surpassed Spoony's Patreon income. At the time, it was about $500 a month, but now it's down to $461. That brings my forward income goal from $6000 to $5,532. Granted, 6K is a rounder number, so I might still try to unofficially shoot for that, but as of now, the goal will drop to the latter number as that is really the crux of the goal.
Conclusion
It may not have been the year opener that I was hoping for, but I did manage to put some dents in the list. Knocking one of the big ones off was certainly nice, but I am looking forward to focusing my attention to the smaller scale goals.
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