Simon

What is your challenge Simon?

Hmm interesting....

Goal #1 I want to own a house and live in Stockbridge, Edinburgh. For those of you not familar with the Edinburgh suburbs, this is the really posh part of town. Stupidly expensive (even for the UK) but lovely Victorian stone houses with huge bay windows, wooden shutters instead of curtains, and ornately plastered ceilings. One of my best mates has a place there and it's exactly the style I want to own, and the area I want to live in.

How am I going to do this - Charlotte is right that they need timeframes. The geeky engineer in me says that they need to be SMART - Specific, Measurable, Achievavle, Realistic & Timebound So here we go... - serve notice to evict tenants from my house in Ayrshire (done!) - repaint and recarpet my house (late Feb) - put house on the market in early March - sell it for a HUGE profit (hopefully) by June - keep saving my usual mortgage monies into my ISA (tax-free high interest savings account in UK) - buy a place in Stockbridge in Dec - do it up and move in early 2013!

Goal #2 Publish!! Work with my surgeon to publish an article in the Medical Journal about my operation and the positive impact its had on my MS.