Review Goals Bi-Weekly

==Main things==

• focus on personal growth evolving well

• Step out of my comfort zone need to do something again…

• explore my creativity singing lessons continued

• Daily: Reflect on 5 things for which I’m grateful. new goal; on track

• Review Goals Bi-Weekly delayed

• list my “someday” goals nothing new

• list my “ongoing” goals nothing new

• learn to swim crawl had a first lesson!

• take singing lessons weekly lessons

• Swim 60 Miles in 2009 56.29623

• finish reading Focusing progressing

• write myself 5 letters on futureme.org delayed

• be part of a 43T Succes Team need to write another entry there; the social life is improving :-)

• Have an Idea Party no activity

• learn to flirt reading a couple of books on the topic…

==Main things==

• focus on personal growth Major change in relationship. Even though this change doesn’t always seem to provide sufficient stability, I’m determined to make the best out of it.

• Step out of my comfort zone singing lessons continued

• explore my creativity singing lessons continued

• Review Goals Bi-Weekly delayed, with reason

• list my “someday” goals some day…

• list my “ongoing” goals ongoing

• take singing lessons weekly lessons, Elvis Costello and next week probably Lou Reed

• learn to swim crawl no progress

• Swim 60 Miles in 2009 been invited by Stainless Steel Moose after finishing 50 miles

• finish reading Focusing no progress

• write myself 5 letters on futureme.org on track

• be part of a 43T Succes Team taking a slow start personally, aim is to improve my social life

• Have an Idea Party minor involvement, delighted to see the concept of an idea party work on 43T:)

• Read “feel the fear and do it anyway” progressing

• keep track of expenses did that in October, still need to cast my findings into an entry on the site

1. schedule my life and follow that schedule ~ What schedule? There is no schedule right now. Not in the slightest. I do want to pick this back up and begin to develope a rhyme and reason to my days again. After my birthday, I will truly begin this process again.

2. Complete four “things” a month ~ Another great intention gone down the toilet for now. It’s alright though, I will in good time, pick this back up again as well.

3. List some things everyday that made me happy, for an entire year ~ I’ve dropped the ball a bit for the past couple of months, but the good thing is, there’s been so many happy things happening throughout, that all I’ve had to do is sum all that up with a couple of updates. Marrying the man of your dreams is a good couple month happy high. AT LEAST a couple months. ;) har har.

4. Create a budget, and stick with it ~ I don’t like thinking about money at all right now. It’s a painful subject.

5. Save money ~ I want to and need to. But right now, it’s just about impossible. But that won’t stop me….. No.. never.

6. Make a living with my creativity ~ Hopefully I’ll recruit the bo to join me in this quest. He seems up for the task. He’s so creative and I love his style.

7. make my business successful ~ In the plans.

8. build a reputation based on my work ~ In my plans!

9. buy my own house ~ also in the plans.

10. Become Financially Independent ~ hopefully someday soon.

11. knit or crochet a blanket ~ has been on hold all summer. I am seriously considering getting it back out this week and completing it before Thanksgiving. Might make a great gift! :D

12. Bring my own bags to the supermarket ~ Have not been to the supermarket much but have still been a bad girl.

13. recycle everything ~ doing it but need to do more.

14. make more effort to make friends ~ with C in the picture this should rev up a lot more.

15. have conversations late into the night with fascinating people ~ this is also going to catapolt forward with C in the picture.. he loves talking philosophy and the like.

16. not be afraid to speak up when i have an answer/idea/opinion ~ By request, from my fiance (i like saying that), I need to get a little more opinionated. :D

17. Write a Summary about each Month ~ I have some months to catch up on. So many fun developments over those months!

18. Have a totally different life by this time next year ~ This is absolutely going to be the case come January 2010. I may just keep this on the goal list for next year too. Just to see how much change has happened.

19. Find that perfect town to live in/by and move there ~ This kind of got knocked on it’s side. Not sure what to do with this one yet. I might remove it for now.

20. have my own garden ~ someday.

21. get a brazilian bikini wax ~ never quite got around to this one. It’s going to have to wait until I have the money to afford this.

22. age gracefully ~ 31 this coming Saturday and I feel pretty good.. Need to drink more water and do more facials though.

23. astral project ~ Might remove this one.. It’s relevance and importance in my life is essentially nil.

24. Continue to work on my Book of Shadows ~ Prolly going to rename this goal into something else.. No longer going to refer to it as “Book of Shadows”. More like an intriquette journal that includes my life schedule and goals and so on.

25. Start a journal documenting my favorite quotes from books, songs, films, friends, etc. ~ Ties in with goal above.

26. Write a letter to myself that I’ll open in 5 years ~ Something to work on this week.

27. Discover my Heritage ~ back burner

28. Review Goals Bi-Weekly ~ This kinda turned into bi-monthly but it’s ok. It felt like two weeks.

29. Keep track of Portland being weird ~ It’s entirely possible that I’m getting accustomed to the weirdness of Portland and therefore am not seeing as much weirdness. But then again, I’ve been rather preoccupied. I’ll post it as I see it.

==Main things==

• focus on personal growth work in progress.

• Step out of my comfort zone singing lessons continued

• explore my creativity singing lessons continued

• Review Goals Bi-Weekly check:)

• list my “someday” goals nothing new

• list my “ongoing” goals hygiene going well, picking up exercise again after a week of no energy

• take singing lessons weekly lessons, with various exercises and love is in need of love today (Stevie Wonder)

• finish reading Focusing some progress

• write myself 5 letters on futureme.org 2nd letter is written

• Swim 50 Miles in 2009 46 miles so far

• learn to swim crawl no progress, postponed until after the 50 miles.

• keep track of expenses making the list, spreadsheeting at the end of the month. Certain expenses should be made soon, new shoes to start with.

• Read “feel the fear and do it anyway” Got the book from the library and have read 40-something pages so far. Psy says oh that’s one of those books again, unfortunately the reality is more complex than that… :)

==Main things==

• focus on personal growth work in progress. Doing OK.

• Step out of my comfort zone singing lessons!

• explore my creativity singing lessons!

• Review Goals Bi-Weekly check:)

• list my “someday” goals voice lessons idea developed into singing lessons

• list my “ongoing” goals going well

• take singing lessons new goal, had a first lesson already

• finish reading Focusing no progress

• write myself 5 letters on futureme.org on track, next letter due by next Sunday

• Swim 50 Miles in 2009 44 miles so far

• learn to swim crawl no progress:(

• keep track of expenses new goal, just to know…

Just made a major cleanup of my goals list. Merged similar goals, that usually fell into the personal growth or exercise categories, or things that have been on the list untouched for so long that I prefer to see them in a separate long term list.

==Main things==

• focus on personal growth work in progress. Merged similar goals into this one

• Step out of my comfort zone no progress. Would love to do something again, but what?

• explore my creativity new goal, renamed from take a photo every day

• Review Goals Bi-Weekly check:)

• list my “someday” goals moved some goals from the main list here

• list my “ongoing” goals added 2 follow-up goals from the main list

• finish reading Focusing no progress

• finish reading Radical Honesty minor progress – dragging myself towards the end, liked the earlier chapters more

• write myself 5 letters on futureme.org new goal, on track

• Swim 50 Miles in 2009 40 miles so far

• learn to swim crawl had a chat with s.o. at the pool – she promised to ask around for a trainer who could teach me…

• stop daydreaming and just do it hmmmmmmmmmmm

• Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth new goal. It should be easy in principle, but…

• Create and follow my path in life and be really really happy Small steps.

• focus on personal growth ongoing. psy session. more focus on my side.

• admit what I really want making small steps…

• live without guilt reasonable

• Step out of my comfort zone nothing recently

• finish reading Focusing no progress

• finish reading Radical Honesty no progress

• Have more self discipline computer restriction works well!

• overcome procrastination hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

• be more firm and direct with people (ie, say no when I need to say no) reasonable.

• Review Goals Bi-Weekly I’m late I guess…

• work harder at reaching my goals see: self discipline

• answer emails within a week of receiving them somewhat better now

• Not speak a word for 24 hours moving it towards the front of the list…

• cry not yet

• sleep under the stars didn’t work out so far:(

• do something unusual weekly to fuel my creativity check:)

• write myself 5 letters on futureme.org new goal, wrote first letter

• Have a regular sleep pattern reasonable.

• Floss every single day still 5/7

• Improve my posture ongoing. Alexander Technique teacher says there’s progress.

• control my chocolate intake – again doing well, especially in conjunction with the next thing:

• Morally support Mad Musical Genius with her weight loss goal by making some healthy, lower-calorie changes to my own diet new & fun

• exercise every day 5-6 out of 7.

• run 3 times a week 2-3 times now, feels good:)

• Swim 50 Miles in 2009 31 miles so far

• do the splits stretching almost every day now since the beginning of August, some progress is visible

• learn to swim crawl no progress

• Swim 100 lenghts in one hour later, learn crawl first

• swim 100 nautical miles in 2010 new goal for next year

• live a clutter free existance no progress, doing other jobs in the house like painting doors…

Jeez, I’ve been busy feeling overwhelmed and not like I have time to work on any goals, let alone comment on them. But I think I’m up to taking on my life and the goals again. It helps that I also realized the “print” button will make an easy to read list of my goals to cut and paste (it was taking me forever just to post my goals in this goal to even comment on them before)

1. Read the entire Bible
I’ve been not doing this. I looked at the chapters I have unread, and finishing this year would be hard, but not too hard. My new goal is to finish by the end of winter (march-ish?) But I did get my progress into my iPhone so it’s easier for me to pick this up on during my transit time.

2. declutter my life
Constant. Ongoing.

3. get 43 people to watch the Raisin Brahms PSA

slow progress.

4. do some kick-ass spring cleaning
ha, it’s nearly fall, and I’m still not done wtih this list. Getting there, though.

5. clean my desk (for real this time)
um, some progress. I’d say half there.

6. improve my focus at work
letting this sit a few more weeks into my new job duties..

7. Review Goals Bi-Weekly
ta da!

8. clean the garage
no progress, but I may need to assess if this isn’t actually pretty much done. It is a garage, afterall. I don’t need to eat off the floor in there.

9. create a cleaning schedule
created. Stuck to? not at all.

10. figure out how I want to eat
still thinking…

11. exercise regularly
am trying to schedule it in so I don’t over schedule, as I have been.

12. make getting dressed easy
getting easier…

13. have dinner with my piano teacher
not sure…didn’t hear from her, so I might have to take this off because I can’t do much more on the goal. Maybe I just need to reach out again.

14. Try new recipes.
blerg. Cooking is currently my enemy. we go back and forth in our relationship. currently, it’s off.

15. keep in better touch with friends
doing good. Have made phone calls, written letters, initiated contact.

16. play online cribbage with my dad regularly
nothing yet

17. go birding
no…is fall a good time, though?

18. try running again
nothing

19. write in my journal at least once a week
nope, but I do want to

20. Organize my 72 Hour Kit for Emergency Preparedness
I did put some of my credit card numbers into a secure program in my phone, if that counts… want to get addresses and other such things scanned and in there also

21. Play the piano more
that would be nice, wouldn’t it?

22. can tomatoes
yes! this will happen…just need to make the date with my mom

23. save more money
going well

24. memorize the verses from my wedding
put them in evernote, so they’re there…

25. finish the quilt that I’m making as a gift
no progress, maybe this winter?

26. volunteer for the Nature Conservancy
sent an email trying to get a date on the calendar with a friend

27. save for retirement
have a phone number to call for my dad’s rep, just haven’t called him

28. organize my photos
no progress

29. learn cpr
blerg

30. read all the books I own
um…

31. finish my wedding album
well…

32. Read The brothers Karamazov
I meant to in August. Ireally did.

33. start making this year’s christmas cards
may just go with store bought, need to decide…

34. update my resume
not hard, but not done, either

35. move all my quotes to evernote
I put some in tonight!

36. reach out to local high schools to see if I can be involved with their speech team
I did! They reached back! I’d like to see if I can follow this through

37. Make a positive and specific daily pledge to take at least one action on my goals
put my list on my phone so I can do better

• stop daydreaming and just do it Small steps

• Create and follow my path in life and be really really happy Small steps

• focus on personal growth ongoing. psy session.

• admit what I really want to myself – small steps. to psy – smaller steps.

• live without guilt reasonable

• Step out of my comfort zone worked that call center job!

• finish reading Focusing no progress

• finish reading Radical Honesty no progress

• overcome procrastination not good. postponing phone calls, emails…

• be more firm and direct with people (ie, say no when I need to say no) okay-ish

• Review Goals Bi-Weekly two weeks late

• work harder at reaching my goals did work in the call center

• answer emails within a week of receiving them not

• Not speak a word for 24 hours no plans for now

• cry not yet

• sleep under the stars in summer, which is almost over… when??

• do something unusual weekly to fuel my creativity check:)

• Have a regular sleep pattern reasonable.

• Floss every single day 5/7

• Improve my posture ongoing. Alexanter Technique session on Friday

• control my chocolate intake – again doing fine. I’m keeping it on the list ‘coz it helps:)

• exercise every day I’m finally swimming again:) Not every day though.

• run 3 times a week 2-3 times now, with a race every now and then

• Swim 50 Miles in 2009 31 miles so far

• do the splits stretching almost every day now since the beginning of August

• learn to swim crawl no progress

• Swim 100 lenghts in one hour later, learn crawl first

• live a clutter free existance went through my wardrobe and kicked some stuff out

1. Find balance in my life… In certain ways I am doing really at this goal but finding balance in the way I spend my day is not happening. Right now I am working pretty much all the time in order to be distracted from obsessing or thinking about my ex. The way I look at it, at least my out of balance preoccupation with work is productive, as opposed to the sitting on the sofa, thinking there was no point to life and wanting to bail out which I did for the 1st 6 weeks! I’m getting there, but still need to address this goal and make it a living breathing part of my life.

2. List at least one thing each day which I am grateful for… Some days, usually bad days I find it hard to come up with something to write, but in forcing myself it is good for me to stop and realize that although life is not going my way, I still have A LOT, and I mean A WHOLE LOT to be grateful and thankful for.

3. Complete a 7-day juice program… I have started juicing again but not the 7 days program – still want to and need to do this goal! Am thinking will have to be after my birthday celebration weekend!!

4. Take 15 minutes a day to just be… not yet, I have a cd I was listening to daily for 30 minutes which I am going to try and re-start when I get back home. If nothing else it means I lie on the sofa or just chill for 30 min a day!

5. Be Happy!... I’m up and down like a yo-yo! Not a lot of balance here. To be honest I’m actually happy with a lot of things except one, little all-encompassing sadness, which sits in my heart for my ex. As I write this I realize how much my focus is on Him, how much of my internal life is still focused on him although on the outside “im doing so well” I’m happy on the outside, not on the in.

6. Learn to love myself… Up and down

7. Stop comparing myself to others… Up and down

8. Get to goal weight… On-going

9. live one day at a time… Still trying to pull myself back to today every-time I feel myself float away into the panic of tomorrow or pain of the past. Especially right now as Im in our summer house in Sicily with access to beautiful scenery, weather, food, beach etc….

10. drink more water Been doing a lot more of this in the last week or so since I’ve been away. Need to continue once I’m back in the not so hot world of the UK

11. Clear my credit card… Still working on this

12. Get over him… URGHHHHHHHHHH – NO!!!!!!!!

13. Finish my portfolio and get out there!... not yet

14. Start writing a journal… Yes although I haven’t written in it for a while

15. Finish my website… Still working on money work whilst I’m away – hopefully going to start in the next day or two

16. Start painting again… Not yet

17. Go to a life drawing class… checked classes, going to speak to my lodger and see if she wants to come with me

18. Learn Italian… checked out adult evening classes – also rosetta stone. I have been better since I’ve been here but need to commit some time to this

19. Get a lotus tattoo… Meant to be on my birthday – the 3rd. We’ll see, I’m still having doubts!

20. Tell people how I feel about them ( the good stuff!)... not enough

21. Have fresh flowers around the house… no

22. become a better photographer… ongoing

23. Accept compliments… Yes – although not getting too many!!!

24. Give something back… Spent a great couple of days at Chase Christophers Childrens Hospice photographing a music workshop and concert there. The praises and reactions of the parents and staff to my photographs, not only made me feel good about myself, but also that my ‘job’ or talent can be more than superficial. Im working on an idea of how to expand on this, hopefully with the help of someone I met at Chase

25. Buy a D3x… Gotta look at my budget, but think I’m going to end up just going for it!

26. Take time to pamper myself each morning… No….

27. post letters here that i would never send… If I dumped everytime I thought of something I wanted to say to someone I would never get off this site. It amazes me that I have so much to say, as I would always thing that one of my attributes was that I spoke my mind all the time – I guess not. Or at least that I’ve become less that way over the years!

28. stop depending on others for my happiness… trying

29. Practice restraint… sorta!

30. compile a 100-things-about-me list… need to start this

31. master the law of attraction… no – any suggestions??

32. Review Goals Bi-weekly… doing it now!

33. have a book published… nope

34. tell him how I feel… Soon

35. learn transcendental meditation… November – looking forward to it

36. Decorate my workspace so it’s beautiful… not yet. Another 2-do for when I get home!

37. Sell stuff on ebay… NO!!!

38. Clean the car… Have a week once I return to do this!

39. stop thinking about him so much… I have my moments but generally not doing all that great right now. I think as it’s coming closer to the date I set myself to contact him, the pressure / fear / general unhealthy thought obsession is hitting a high and driving me crazy

40. Host a Book Swap Party… Need to find a free date in the diary

DONE

Cheer Cessie on and get other 43t’ers to shower her with encouragment in her bid to quit smoking!... Yes and she’s doing GREAT!