I’ve actually met a few of my goals lately and just need to post. Life is so busy and balance is so hard. It is good to see progress.

I need to resort, hopefully this weekend. 2 months ago

In order to accomplish an effective Goals Reevaluation, I will temporarily move most of my goals to the given up category. I’m not actually giving up on these goals; it’s just that some of them are no longer high enough a priority to be my focus for today.

I will make a fresh start be taking a fresh look at each of my goals. I will reactivate current goals, without forgetting about goals that have been important to me in the past and that I will likely want to focus on in the future.

This process is like the reworking of a flower garden, where you lift and set aside all your perennials, so that the soil can be tilled and enriched. Then you put the flowers you most want to keep back exactly where you want them.

Those perennials which did not get replanted may be given away, or they might be placed in a back nursery garden where they can mature and grow until the time is right for them to be replanted again front and center, in your main flower bed.

“Weed the garden of your life regularly – anything you don’t like can go. Nurture what you love. Plant new things.” ~ M. Neill 8 months ago

of what changes I need to make and creating some new goals for those things. I think it will take a while just to get back to a sane, normal life. I’ve been looking through my “given up” goals and there are several there I think I’d like to reactivate, as well as working on semi-abandoned goals on my active list (and millions of other things that that I want to do but haven’t given their own goals yet). I’m starting to feel re-energized and engaged with the site in a familiar way, one which is very helpful to me. All this is a good thing!

Re-evaluating is never really done, of course. However, I’m actually pretty happy with my list as it is now, and I have a sense of where it might go in the next little while as well. So I think this goal is done for the time being. 9 months ago

a bunch of short-term goals have popped up. Most of these are just survival oriented, trying to hit the ground running post-honeymoon – wrapping up wedding-related loose ends, and getting my personal finances, work life, health, and home in order. I think there will be a second layer to this goal once I get some of those initial concerns out of the way, so I’m leaving it active for now. 9 months ago

I need to do this. The wedding has been such a major focus for me over the past several months that once we are married, it will be a major change for me. I have a number of things that are on hold, and if I try to do them all at once, I am sure to fail. I need to re-evaluate, prioritize, and then move forward. 10 months ago

I really need to do this -not just for my 43 things goals but for real.
I have a tendency to just glide. Not always bad but this is life. We only have one time here on this earth. It should matter. I’ve heard the quote (something like this) if you aim at nothing you are sure to hit it. I don’t want to bulls-eye nothing. Life goes up and Life goes down. Ebbing and Flowing like the Tides.
Lately, It’s been my time in the valley. Since the start of 2012, the garage, office, and studio burnt down with minimal insurance (still so blessed the rest of the house did not go up in flames) work has been insane (contractor going bankrupt on one of my biggest jobs, firm identity crisis, more midnight hours than I care to count, .... I could go on and on) not enough money then a severe incident of vertigo -enough to send me to the hospital and lingering enough to make even walking painful.
No excuses but I am just plain tired and ready for a bit of a break. I am almost ready to re-evaluate some of the hard goals, the ones I’ve been putting off. I am also excite to try and figure out how to make some others more real.
I do know even through it all, God’s hand has been and is ever present. I am grateful (even if I sound sort of whiny at the moment) I want to make the most of my talents, gifts, and interests. I want to share and not hoard what life has given me -even if some of that is just experiences that allow me to empathize with others going through this same journey.
So soon. 15 months ago