mischiefmanaged

As I get older, I feel like time is running out on this goal. I always underestimated how important a credit score was, but now I constantly see a hundred reasons why mine needs to be better. I want to buy a new car. I want a credit card with a lower interest rate. And in a few years, I will probably want to buy a house. My credit score right now is hovering in the 500s, but I’d like to increase my score to at least 650 in the recent future. Right now, I am working on keeping my balances low to non-existent. I am planning on taking out a secured loan with my bank to add more good payment history. We will see where my score ends up in 6 months or a year.

People literally groaned when I mentioned wanting to learn new words, as many of my friends and co-workers already consider me to be someone with a wide vocabulary. But I really dislike coming across a word I don’t know, so I feel it’s a worthwhile effort.

I bought a 365 Words a Year box calendar, a little jokingly, but I think it will be a help. It’s really the only effort I have made so far to learn more words. I am also going to try to make myself take time to look up a word if I’m not sure what it means, and use a thesaurus more often.

I’ll consider this goal reached when I am at the end of my calendar.

This is one goal I’m not sure I will ever consider ‘done’. How do you measure it? Time (one day, one month, one year)? Amount of happy? It’s one of my strongest aspirations because I feel it’s something others fall into easily, while I’ve experienced more than my share of dysfunction. I have heard people give the advice that, “you are the common denominator in all of your bad relationships” so this goal is a reminder to me to think carefully before I speak and think even more carefully about those I decide to have a relationship with.