Put together my 'Best Year Yet' goals for 2012

Guidelines
Face the music
Ask for help when I need it
Indulge my five senses

New Paradigm
My destiny is what I do best.
My path is beautifully mysterious and magically assured.

Major Focus
Financial Manager

Top Ten Goals
1. Make my home a beautiful retreat.
2. Plan a monthly self-care plan on or near the first of each month with the intention that I get all the support that I need.
3. Have a weekly Gold Time session to ensure that I’m meeting all of my goals.
4. Love and appreciate my partner and support him in his creative endeavors.
5. Plan meet and greets with friends 2-4 times a month and send a card to an out of town friend every week.
6. Write poetry every day and build creative community.
7. Leave my city once a month and leave my country once a year.
8. Become a licensed acupuncturist and figure out the next step (where to work and mentoring).
9. Track my expenses daily on Mint.com
10. Work with a financial coach.

Homekeeper:
Stick to my Flylady routine like glue.
Make my home a beautiful retreat.

My own coach:
Plan a monthly self-care plan on or near the first of each month with the intention that I get all the support that I need.
Have a weekly Gold Time session to ensure that I’m meeting all of my goals.

Romantic partner:
Appreciate my partner fully.
Support him in his creative endeavors.
Love and support my partner.

Friend/Family/Community Member:
Plan meet and greets with friends 2-4 times a month and send a card to an out of town friend every week.

Artist (Poetry, Dance, Music):
Write a poem every day.

Traveler:
Leave my city once a month and leave my country once a year.

Acupuncturist/Health coach:
Become a licensed acupuncturist and figure out the next step (where to work and mentoring).

Financial Manager:
Track my expenses daily on Mint.com
Work with a financial coach.

Financial manager. Last year I called this role ‘financial shaman’. I will call it ‘manager’ because shaman was a little too magical a word for something that might be better if I just ‘managed’ it, if you get my drift.

Homekeeper
My own coach
Romantic partner
Friend/Family/Community Member
Artist (Poetry, Dance, Music)
Traveler
Acupuncturist/Health coach
Financial Manager

How do you intend to play each role?
Homekeeper: I intend to keep my leaving space clean, clutter free and beautiful.
Romantic partner: I intend to appreciate and love my partner and share adventures with him.
Friend/family/community member: I intend to participate and share honestly and plan fun events. I intend to keep in contact.
Artist: I intend to write poetry each day and continue with creative pursuits.
Traveler: I intend to take on long trip to a place that inspires me this year.
Acupuncturist: I intend to go through the licensing process and explore community acupuncture and the clinic I’m interested in. Also, I intend to begin continuing study with Lonny Jarrett.
Financial manager: I intend to plan my finances impeccably this year and to find a coach who can help with this

What values represent who I am?
Compassion for others
Expressing myself

What values do I want to demonstrate?
Spaciousness
Tikkun Ha’Olam
Self Actualization
Self Expression
Leaving people in a better place
Healing
Humor
Integrity

What do I want to happen as a result of my interaction with others?
Leave people in a better place
Tikkun Olam
In better health
In better spirits
Trust

What effect do I want to have on others?
I want to inspire others through my own path
and commitment to healing, art and repairing my world
and the world around me. I love to inspire laughter
in others, too.

How do I limit myself?
I space out. I forget to look at my goals and I just do the bare minimum.
I get afraid and I avoid the issue or the person.
I also feel like a problem is so big it could never be solved, so I give up.
I don’t think I could be more than I am now. And sometimes when I begin to move forward, I feel anxious and want to slow down.
I let go of things, it becomes a big mess, and then I really don’t want to look at it.
I don’t ask for the help I need when I need it.
I forget to make consistent progress toward a goal through little actions.

In which areas of my life am I not achieving what I want?
Connecting with friends
Money
Poetry
Travel
Career

What do I say about myself to explain these failure?
I’m too busy.
I’m too broke and could never earn enough to fix this, buy this plane ticket, go here.
I don’t know what I really want to do.
They might not really like me.
I’m not cut out for this.
(Blech!!)

New Paradigm
I have an abundance of time, money and love to give and receive.
My path is magically mysterious and beautifully assured.
I am part of a circle of supportive soul friends.
My destiny is what I do best.

I learned that:
1. Money is still a sore spot and I’m often afraid to look at it. In fact, I often isolate around the issue.
2. I often try to avoid difficult things (like finances and studying again for another board exam).
3. Poetry helps me know how I’m feeling and where I’m at with my feelings. It also helps me stay whole. It is important.
4. Things don’t happen if I let them go.
5. It feels better to let things go in the short term, and to take care of stuff in the long term. Let me explain…
6. It’s better to stay in touch with people, even when it’s uncomfortable.
7. I really love to have fun, create, move, walk, be outside, touch, feel, eat, breathe, sing, talk…five senses.
8. Travel is important.
9. Love is possible.
10. I can heal. Lots was healed this year.

Guidelines:
Face the music
Ask for help when I need it
Indulge my five senses

1. I’m still not earning enough live my best life.
2. I got deeper into debt and felt ‘poor’ all year. I paid a lot of fees.
3. I didn’t go to Spain.
4. I still didn’t get my acupuncture license.
5. I let up on poetry.
6. I didn’t straighten my place up like I’d like to and have regular meals.
7. I didn’t accomplish the mailing stuff out goal.
8. I spent most of 2011 in a state of financial desperation and shame.
9. I hurt my landlord/tenant relationship due to not paying on time and hurt my credit rating.

1. I continued to dance and perfomed in two flamenco recitals.
2. I attended two Rhino poetry workshops and read poetry there.
3. I dated and learned a lot and began a very loving relationship.
4. I enjoyed Chicago this summer going to a lot of free events with friend and on my own.
5. I enjoyed a year of stable employment.
6. I learned more on how to successfully communicate in relationships.
7. I had several more EMDR sessions.
8. I made some new friends who are really wonderful.