Challenge myself to complete or move forward on as many goals as I can by Sunday

Fix up dollhouse for niece by her birthday Work on it at least one hour this week
Do a 23 fling boogie at least once a week {color:blue} Can do this today
Be able to wear 46 (16) again! Bring lunch to work all week
save $5000 by the end of 2008 Save Tax Refund
Clean my car and keep it clean Take it to Jax after I’m paid
Keep Track of all the Movies I Watch in 2008 Movies – hah hah
Enroll in CFP (certified Financial Planner) curriculum enroll this week
write thank you notes for Christmas presents Must do on Tuesday
Hang up Andrew’s decorations Do this week in the evening
get my eyebrows waxed Not this week
Do my weekly and daily routines enough said
pay off all my card by June 2008 working on it
Spend two hours a week working to find a new job working on it
Finish one cross stitch project by March 1 want to finish the scarf first
Spend Pottery Barn Kids giftcard Why is it so hard to spend?
Fix closet door in guestroom have Barry take it off, at least. It may have to wait until after tax season to get fixed
fix shoe mold in hall ditto
finish painting bedroom ditto
Clean oven I hate doing this. I’ll get around to it when I get sick of seeing this entry
put doorknob on bedroom closet when I can get to Home depot
Hire someone else to clean my house at least once a month review budget…
try 43 new recipes Looking for fish recipes (no salmon or “fishy fish” I like Talapia and Whitefish
eat seasonal, local foods
have a “date night” at least twice a month Anniversary dinner on Saturday. Must make reservations
Walk 20 minutes every day
Keep in Better Contact With the Friends I Have and Make New Friends mail Meredith’s card. Talk about Tri-Sig reunion.
Have guests over every month plan something for March
Finish Barry’s scarf before February Work on it during lunch hours
add more shelves to pantry buy simple human when paid
eat 5 fruits and veggies a day

I think this goal is most useful when I pull it out about once a month and psyche myself for it. Trying to do it continually feels like more of a reminder of what’s not getting done.

43T is my stress-reliever. When I look at a goal like this, it makes my heart race and I start to panic a bit. I don’t need any more challenges. I need more self-awareness. Or serenity. Or security. Some of the things I’ve listed on 43T are not really attainable right now. We won’t be going back to France any time soon. I don’t have any sewing projects lined up, nor any burning desire to do any at this point. I won’t be getting back on the motorcycle til spring. I guess 43T is like a holding pattern for some of these goals, a place to put my desires as they reveal themselves to me. 43T has helped me define and remember who I am and what I enjoy. Things I guess I forgot as I became absorbed with the birthing and raising of small children. So many things were put aside at that time.

I get the spirit of the goal…and I have a “practical list” of must-dos that I use in my everyday life off-line. But I don’t think I want to include this one on 43T any more.

1. Make a grab and go kit: Just do it, enough already
2. Install baseboards & transition pieces: measure and check the budget, buy supplies
3. Get more Art on my Walls: buy a frame for the smaller picture, price out the cost for the big one
4. Take all the Online Courses my Employer has paid for: block off some time, if I’ve done nothing by wednesday then I’ll eat lunch at my desk and do it
5. Clean my car and keep it clean: declutter the car on monday
6. Get rid of all my clutter: work on the dining room and dechristmatizing
7. Teach my son to read: *contact school for next set of words, read some books together
8. Teach my daughter to read: Work on letter sounds, sight words and read together
9. Organize my Photos: upload another batch
10. List 5 things I’m grateful for daily: do this at the end of every day
11. Identify & nurture what makes my children special; work on the new books, teach them to clean rooms daily
12. Make the entrance to my home beautiful: call the carpet guy
13. Excercise & tone my body: set aside time each day
14. Fix my back: excercise, stretch, take anitinflammatory and calcium and track my progress daily
15. knit more: work on my socks
16. Stop drinking soda: keep water in the fridge. Drink some herbal tea every hour
17. Manage my household…plan weekly menu & activities, stick to my cleaning schedule, work on this as part of the household GTD goal
18. Fix up my house… fix the floorboards in the hall
19. Knit up my yarn stash: see what yarns will work with the new pattern
20. Never stop learning download some lectures to my ipod & listen to them
21. Try 43 new recipes: ask around for ideas, review other 43t entries
22. Have a professional development plan meeting this week
23. learn to use all the gadgets we own look at the tivo website
24. Implement GTDfinish setting up next action cards & folders
25. Organize my Paperwork set up a work area, reference file system and sort the big box.
26. Transform my home with GTDtranslate cleaning routine into GTD, do collection and processing of dining room. Do daily reviews and process the metaphorical inboxes to zero.

but I never really committed to it

1. Make a grab and go kit: Just do it, enough already
2. Install baseboards & transition pieces: measure and check the budget, buy supplies
3. Get more Art on my Walls: buy a frame for the smaller picture, price out the cost for the big one
4. Take all the Online Courses my Employer has paid for: block off some time, if I’ve done nothing by wednesday then I’ll eat lunch at my desk and do it
5. Clean my car and keep it clean: declutter the car on monday
6. Get rid of all my clutter: find places for remaining christmas gifts and work on the bedroom
7. Teach my son to read: play some games with the next set of sight words, read some books together
8. Teach my daughter to read: Work on letter sounds, sight words and read together
9. Organize my Photos: upload another batch
10. List 5 things I’m grateful for daily: do this at the end of every day
11. Identify & nurture what makes my children special; plan some science experiments, teach them to clean rooms daily
12. Make the entrance to my home beautiful: call the carpet guy, put out the new doormat
13. Excercise & tone my body: set aside time each day
14. Fix my back: excercise, stretch, take anitinflammatory and calcium and track my progress daily
15. knit more: work on my socks
16. Stop drinking soda: keep water in the fridge. Drink some herbal tea every hour
17. Manage my household…plan weekly menu & activities, stick to my cleaning schedule
18. Fix up my house… fix the floorboards in the hall
19. Knit up my yarn stash: sort my yarn to see what I have, decide on a project
20. Never stop learning download some lectures to my ipod & listen to them
21. Organize my email: set up action based folders, get inbox to zero
22. Try 43 new recipes: review cookbooks and decide on a a recipe

Time to prune the goals for the new year

1. Make a grab and go kit: Just do it, enough already
2. Install baseboards & transition pieces: measure and check the budget, buy supplies
3. Get more Art on my Walls: buy a frame for the smaller picture, price out the cost for the big one
4. Take all the Online Courses my Employer has paid for: block off some time today and tomorrow
5. Clean my car and keep it clean: clean it out by sunday
6. Get rid of all my clutter: find places for all the new christmas gifts
7. Teach my son to read: play some games with the next set of sight words, read some books together
8. Teach my daughter to read: Work on letter sounds, sight words and read together
9. Watch every Jimmy Stewart movie: Firecreek
10. Use Whatever I have purchased: Use up some yarn stash
11. Organize my Photos: upload another batch
12. List 5 things I’m grateful for daily: do this at the end of every day
13. Identify & nurture what makes my children special; set up daughters microphone, watch the kids put on a show
14. Make the entrance to my home beautiful: call the carpet guy, put out the new doormat
15. Excercise & tone my body: get out the pilates dvd, set up an exercise space and start using my exercycle again
16. Fix my back: excercise, stretch, take anitinflammatory and calcium and track my progress daily
17. knit more: make some dishcloths and decide on a project
18. Stop drinking soda: buy a new brita filter and keep water in the fridge. Drink some herbal tea every hour

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1. Write Thankyou notes – will work on them during lunch
2. Keep better contact with friends – with thank you notes this week
3. Finish Barry’s scarf before February do not sit in front of the tv without the knitting
4. Create Personal recipe book find the recipe book first
5. Spend two hours a week finding a new job no one will be posting this week, so vacation from this goal
6. Do my weekly and daily routines clean up the guestroom
7. Fix up dollhouse for niece not this week
8. Do a 23 fling boogie at least once a week threw out Christmas garbage yesterday
9. Have a date night twice a month had it last Friday
11. Clean my car take it to Jax to clean inside & out
12. Be able to wear size 16 again clean off the treadmill!
13. Pay off debt & save $5000 *pay bills tonight *

I need to reassess my goals and develop a new plan. Many of my goals are repetitious and outdated. Time to make a new plan.