re-evaluate my goals

Who’s gonna hire a zombie? Especially one who can’t lift more than 10-15 lbs or use a regular computer station (I have to use a laptop)?

To do this. While nothing on my list strikes me as wrong, exactly, I need to look at things and see if I can be more specific, more directed. I’m losing focus.

earlier today browsing goals using keywords I’ve been thinking about. I’m going to talk with a friend at work who is always involved in activities & volunteer opp’s in town.

I’ve been thinking about it. I just need to do a little more thinking. My God, time goes by too darn fast most days.

43T anniversary coming up, I am going to reevaluate my goals. Get specific, make more achievable goals to go with some of the more general yet still important ones. It’s okay to keep a goal on the list for a long time, as long as I’m noting specific related achievements, but I’d like to have more that I can post, work on, & finish. Several goals I put up in the past wouldn’t have gotten done if I hadn’t posted them here – as weird as that seems to me – & I want to see more of that. Visible steps forward.

After talking with my aunt, who is around 50, I’m thinking about making a 10 year plan. She said she’s making 2 10 year plans, because she may only have 20 healthy years left to do much out of the ordinary. She’ll plan for the most active things first.

That’s not a bad idea for anyone. I can imagine myself cruising through 5 or 10 years thinking I’ll do things on vacations ‘sometime,’ or visit certain people ‘before too long,’ then never really do those things. It’s easier to plan ahead in my job than in my personal life. Maybe because job-related items get put on a resume, marked down in a file, reflected back in interviews.

It’d be easier to make specific plans, spread out over 30 years, than to drift around until time gets short & have to try to cram it all in before it’s too late. Might cost too much to do it all at once, too.

There are roadblocks in the way of some things I’d like to do, but not all. And if I start chipping at those roadblocks, maybe I’ll get past them before I hit 50.

It’s not fun thinking of time & years & vacations & health as being finite. But I have to, if I want to make better use of whatever time I have.

Wow, this is goal is harder than I thought it would be, although I’ve had it on my list before. I’ve checked off a couple big, ongoing goals (be happy, exercise regularly), and I know there is more to check off, retire and add. Retiring (giving up on) goals is tricky to, but I don’t think its productive to have things on my list that I don’t want to be working on.

Checking off being happy was odd, because I thought it would always be on my list. But I know that I am a lot happier on a regular basis than I used to be. I also feel that it is covered under my new number one goal: Identify as a Happy and Healthy Person. I really would like those traits to be at the very core of who I am.

Its time to go through the list again. Clear out the ones I don’t want to work on, check off the less concrete ones that I’ve pretty much accomplished, and add some new ones to inspire me.

several things, but I don’t list them at 43T. Not sure why. Maybe because I know I’ll want to procrastinate. Posting goals here actually has pushed me into completing them, amazingly enough (to me, at least). It’s like hitting a plateau – rest up, but move on up.

I want to use goals here that I can work on regularly, see growth, and accomplish. I’ve got too many that are long-term or lifelong, not things I can check on each day or even week.