1. Finish Christmas shopping
2. Mail out final gifts
3. Give out my work related gifts
4. A Bonsai tree that will be my wife’s Christmas present is arriving this week. I really hope to keep it alive and well until Christmas morning _{a dead Bonsai tree would not be a good gift}
5. Remember what Christmas is really about and keep it all in perspective 5 months ago

1. Send pants back to LL Bean
2. Make toffee as a gift for coworkers
3. Plan the Christmas baking
4. Get more gifts for my wife
5. Send out cards for Amnesty International Greeting Card campaign
6. Do two more Polish lessons 5 months ago

1. Send out the next round of Christmas gifts
2. Call the company about getting a Bonsai tree for my wife for Christmas
3. Pick-up the iPad from UPS
4. Complete two more Polish lessons
5. Figure out gifts for coworkers 5 months ago

1. Be the best me possible at the project start-up meeting
2. Be supportive to my wife who is spending a lot of time making Christmas gifts for family and friends
3. Celebrate with my family my mother’s 70th birthday 5 months ago

1. Celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with my wife
2. Develop a plan for Christmas gifts’
3. Donate blood _{or at least try}
4. Get in two hikes 6 months ago

1. Celebrate my parent’s anniversary
2. Go to the talk on Patagonia with Peter
3. Complete two more Polish lessons 6 months ago

1. See Cirque du Soleil
2. Bring the books I cleaned out to the recycling center
3. Figure out when I can donate blood next
4. Complete two Pimsleur Polish language lessons
5. Finish going through the ship’s manifest looking for my great gandfather 6 months ago

1. Get through Sandy safely and sanely 6 months ago

• Really book the hotel room for the conference
• Hopefully get our computer back from the shop
• Work on birthday gifts for my father and our niece 7 months ago

• Really book the hotel room for the conference
• Hopefully get our computer back from the shop
• Work on birthday gifts for my father and our niece 7 months ago

• Get the snow blower in for service
• Talk to my boss about how to keep the important things he needs to do for projects from going by the wayside
• Conduct a training for a new group
• Get the computer repaired
• Get a new Nook for my wife
• Book my hotel room for the meeting next month 7 months ago

• Check out the classic car show
• Dental cleaning & check-up
• Schedule an appointment for car service
• Go to jazz night at the Sahara Club with Peter
• Start cutting up the trees into firewood. 7 months ago

• Have dinner with a former colleague
• Meet the tree service company rep to get an estimate
• Work out 6 days to meet my goal
• Complete three Polish lesson 7 months ago

As to be expected for the living, there is more to do. Much done last week:

Done:

Complete the requirements for my courses this week
Renew my vehicle registration
Exchange shelves (office reorg goal)
Schedule my auto repair appointment
Do the Flylady routines daily (Flylady goal)
Check into 43 Things daily (except Tuesday which is too busy)

To Be Done (this week)

Complete the requirements for my courses this week
Build the new shelves (office reorg goal)
Move the mound of stuff on my desk onto the new shelves (office reorg)
Go for a ride (cycling)
Followup on missing items
Write on my PhD article(s) (daily writing goal)
Write on my personal writing (novel, daily writing goal)
Go see a movie (monthly movie goal)
Do the Flylady routines daily (Flylady goal)
Check into 43 Things daily (except Tuesday which is too busy)

Phone calls
New shoes
Purchase SD cards 8 months ago

• Get the videos I need from the library
• Really call the tree service this week
• Work out in some way, shape, or form 6 days 8 months ago

Complete the requirements for my courses this week
Renew my vehicle registration
Exchange shelves (office reorg goal)
Build the new shelves (office reorg goal)
Move the mound of stuff on my desk onto the new shelves (office reorg)
Go for a ride (cycling)
Followup on missing items
Schedule my auto repair appointment
Write on my PhD article(s) (daily writing goal)
Write on my personal writing (novel, daily writing goal)
Go see a movie (monthly movie goal)
Do the Flylady routines daily (Flylady goal)
Check into 43 Things daily (except Tuesday which is too busy) 8 months ago

• Order a new book
• Take our nieces on an outing
• Call to have someone give us an estimate on tree removal
• Schedule furnace service
• Set up a time to get together with my friend Peter 8 months ago

1. Maintain firm boundaries at work

2. Get up to page 175 in the Icelandic Saga

3. Get to the gym or otherwise exercise 5 days

4. Host my wife’s family for a cookout9 months ago

1. Start figuring out the packing list for Iceland

2. Attend the Lowell Folk Festival

3. Get up to page 150 in the Icelandic saga – NOPE10 months ago

1. See the RedSox play at Fenway

2. Start a book for my mother documenting and explaining her heritage

3. Stay cool despite the heat, and not stress if this means not working out

4. Get up to page 100 in the Icelandic saga10 months ago

1. Re-establish routines after so much travel:gym, diet, house

2. Read 50 pages of the Icelandic Saga

3. Attend a concert

4. Order my new computer10 months ago

1. Not freak out no matter how many e-mails I have and what they say.

2. Get back to the gym

3. Have fun with my father and brother in Seattle next weekend11 months ago

1. Remember to enjoy life

2. Remember it is the journey, not the destination

3. Eat five new foods

4. Talk to five strangers

5. Sip five new drinks (not necessarily all containing alcohol)11 months ago

1. Finish packing

2. Close up what I need to at work

3. Job interview on Wednesday

4. Cut the grass, if the weather cooperates – The weather was very uncooperative

5. Not hesitate to remind people at work who complain that I am away so much this month that I did not request these weeks off, but was told five months ago that they were the best weeks for me to take.

6. Not hestitate to say, “Sorry, it really won’t be possible for me to take work calls during this trip.”11 months ago

1. Prepare for upcoming job interview

2. Take next steps on prepping for my trip

3. Pick up new sports coat and slacks

4. Start a new sleep log

5. Not let work run my life

6. Get stamps for postcards

7. Buy final items for trip _{or get really close}11 months ago

1. Ship my bike

2. Check out my tent

3. Go shopping for better shoes for my ride

4. Try desparately to keep work issues in perspective

5. Review what I learned from my sleep log

6. Read 100 pages. 12 months ago

1. Get picture taken for LinkedIn

2. Drop my bicycle off for boxing and ask about the issue with the rear wheel.

3. Start pulling together the gear for my ride

4. Send in my license renewal for my professional license12 months ago

1. Make plans to have a picture taken for LinkedIn (get a haircut, make appointment with the photographer, pick out clothing)

2. Finalize and post my LinkedIn summary

3. Download route maps for my trip to my GPS and make sure they work

4. Watch three Harry Potter movies to prepare for the upcoming trip with our nieces

5. Get the oil changed on the car.

-6. Finish reading Driven12 months ago