Develop a One Year and a Five Year plan

• Eat a well-balanced and nutrient-rich breakfast every day, such as superfortified cereals with milk and frozen blueberries, smoothies, cantaloupe or grapefruit.
• Reduce the amount of red meat in my diet to one small serving or less per week.
• East more foods that are rich in potassium, such as bananas, avocados, lentils, orange juice and whole grain breads and cereals and pastas.
• Use less butter and cream in my cooking.
• Eat more broccoli, spinach, kale, carrots, celery and cucumbers.

START by eating breakfast, which I never do.

• Mammogram
• Cholesterol and blood tests: Have my HDL and total cholesterol levels measured.
• Make appointment with dermatologist.

START: Have doctors appointment scheduled. Make appointment with dermatologist.

• Make that dental appointment for a checkup and cleaning
• Floss every night
• Use my electric brush gizmo at least onece a day

START: All of the above

EXERCISE

• Practice 8 times a month

• 3 Times a week

• 2 Times a week

Continue all of the above

Reduce my driving speed

Step One – Part One: Goal Setting

• Improve investment knowledge: Develop touchstone resources and reinforce infrastructure for easy and efficient movement – by 11/06
• Continue studying Italian to the point of being able to handle a serious conversation (politics, literature, arts) culminating with a 6 month sojourn in Italy by 2010.
• Read more non-fiction – Now through 2011
• Become more active with the film club or consider joining another – Now through 2011
• Continue participation with book clubs – Now through 2011

• Schedule appointments with a Rabbi, a Zen Buddhist priest and spokespeople for other religions to discuss my concerns, hopes – By 5/07
• Take meditation classes and join a meditation group – By 10/07

• Apply the recommendations I’ve received from RealAge.com after taking the quiz (Need to break this down)
• Get a complete physical, including a mammogram and follow up on recommendations – By 7/06
• Cut back dramatically on eating red meat – Now through 7/06, then reevaluate
• Advance in yoga – By 8/06
• Quit bad habits, such as driving too fast, staying up too late, not drinking enough water, forgetting my vitamins – Need to break this down and schedule
• Go to an Ayurvedic spa in India – Christmas 2006?
• Schedule for a massage once a month – 2007
• See the dentist more regularly – Now through 2011 (Make appointment this week)

• Find at least one person per year whom I have hurt or disappointed and make amends – Prepare list of people I am targeting for this goal and set up some kind of plan/schedule
• Demonstrate my love to the people in my life on a more frequent basis – Prepare list of ways to do this and plan for it
• Give love unconditionally and more often to people outside my circle – Now through 2011, but this needs planning, too. What am I not doing now that I should be doing?

• Expand my service base by finding at least two good people to farm work out to on a frequent basis and set up a reliable system to manage them – By 8/06
• Submit my invoices in a timely fashion without fail – Make this happen!
• Work more closely with my accountant to lower taxes while improving infrastructure – Schedule quarterly discussions
• Figure out some way to keep my desk tidy – Revisit the plan of weekly filing on a schedule
• Set up system so that I can move to my secret destination without freaking my clients out – Needs planning and scheduling now.
• Increase revenue by 20% per annum (with quarterly evaluations, per discussion with accountant and possible financial planner)

• Visit my old uncle within a year – Plan and schedule
• Write hard copy letters to my mom once a month (she loves that… so easy and it makes her so happy) – Set a monthly deadline and calenderize
• Find new ways to connect with my children – Research, planning
• Write Mark every Sunday – Calenderize to begin forming the habit

• Increase work with homeless to 12 hours a month – Would need to add 90 minutes to weekly sessions. Discuss.
• Try a working vacation on behalf of an organization in need – research.

• Cape Town and Victoria Falls
• Australia and New Zealand
• Live in Barcelona for six months

Number One Goal: Improve healthy habits.

Figure out how I’m going to do this.

I’ve been doing a bit of research and here’s what I’ve gathered:

Step One – Part One

• Make a list of everything important I want to accomplish before I die in the following areas: learning, creativity, health, family, love, volunteer work or public service, career, financial, pleasure

• Review the list and revise conflicting goals

• Write down why I want to accomplish each of the goals, getting as specific as possible, and determine how I will know when it is achieved, writing down how I will measure that progress as I work towards completion

• Assign a date or stage for accomplishing each goal, sorting the list into stages of my life. For example, “Before I reach the age of…”

Step One – Part Two

• Write down at least 20 ways to reach my top goal. Force myself to think past the obvious in order to break through with some very creative concepts. Choose the 3 best ways

• Make a list of all the things that are holding me back. For example, too busy, money, education, etc. Choose the major roadblock to my success. What can I do to remove it? Use the 20 idea list here again if necessary to review how I can remove that big obstacle.

... works against a good plan. I’m making this a priority.