30-Day Challenge, Day 8
Short term goals for this month and when you'll accomplish themAfter that? Well, you see that list of 60 goals by the time I turn 60 on the right side (below the Butterfly poem)? Yeah, I really am still working on them. Every now and then, I update the progress I'm making (I try to do that at the start of each month). There are some areas I feel really good about but some I'm already way behind on. I'm hoping February gives me a chance to catch up on a few of those. Like monthly temple attendance, and some special time with the grandkids, and make some progress on scrapbook pages - and definitely make some headway on my weight loss and exercise goals. I feel bad that I even have to SET a goal in the first place for a lot of those things. They should just be a part of my every day life. They should be who I am. But I'm not quite there yet (actually, I'm a long way from being there yet), so I set goals. And I work on them.
Somewhere, however, somebody failed to give me the extra 24 hours a day I need to accomplish them. If anyone's found where those extra hours have skittered off to, I'd sure like to know.
5 comments:
I am amazed at all that you do in a day, I can't believe how full your plate is. Thanks for always squeezing in time for us--speaking of spending time with grandkids? Friday night??
60 goals is quite the accomplishment, I better get started making my bucket list of 40 or I'll never achieve them. YIKES, that # scares me:)
Kinzee, it scares me, too. It's hard enough having kids in their thirty's but the 40's? Well, Linzy's there, and the rest of you are not far behind. But 40 is still young when you're 60. Guess it's all perspective.
Mike, not sure. Dan may be flying in on Friday. Will get back with you.
I feel bad that I have to set goals for some of the stuff that should come easily too, but isn't it better than to set the goal than to ignore it altogether? Our Bishop told us years ago, before he was even our Bishop, to pick one thing to work on at a time and perfect that one thing, while not allowing yourself any guilt about the other stuff, and when it is easy, pick another thing. That simple advice has helped me a lot. I tend to want to tackle the world all in a day. Following that advice still allows me to be perfectionistic, but only about one thing at a time, so that I don't go nuts.
Julie, excellent advice. I try to do that with most of the things I'm doing for the 60 - at least the ones that really require effort - which is why I'm still not getting there on some of them. In fact, a lot of the 60 goals are really more of a 'to do' list of the things I WANT to do. But the real goals mingled among them? Yeah, they do require some extra effort and individual attention. I'm finding, especially, it's taking a huge investment of time to change the life long bad eating habits I've developed. It takes time, I decided, to lose weight the right way. But that's going to take so much time, I can't afford to just concentrate on it while letting all the other important goals wait. So I am doing a crunch course on trying to be a better, more rounded, healthier, successfuller person by the time I'm 60. Most of those things should have been 'under' my belt ages ago.
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