Month: December 2017
2018 Dreams and Goals List
I mentioned in my previous post “Got Dreams? Get a Dream Manager,” that I’m working with a dream manager at work to help me clarify and achieve the goals I want to work toward. It’s an awesome program based on the Dream Manager book by Matthew Kelly that helps people feel more fulfilled in their jobs because the job is helping them to work toward life long dreams.
Here’s my (still evolving) list. I’ve had this post in drafts since mid December, and I’ve had fun watching it grow and eliminating goals that don’t feel like they are authentic after I’ve sat on them for a while.
I started my dream list on the Dream Manager website, but realized that I had more flexibility and a higher chance of success if I created it in my blog since I won’t have “one more place” to log into frequently. It’s been easier for me to update it when I think of another new dream.
I challenge you to do the same thing. You may realize that there really isn’t much standing in your way of achieving many if not most of your dreams.
Happy Dreaming
♥ Heather
Here’s my list of goals and dreams:
(This list includes the dreams that felt more like to-do’s I talked about in my first dream manager post, since accomplishing them will help me to feel less overwhelmed. The ones that are bold are the dreams I’m focusing on for the first half of 2012)
Personal:
- New job for hubby
- Have energy to enjoy things with family in the evenings
- Time to to Y 2 times per week with kids
- Time to to gym for me 5 days a week
- Hire a personal trainer
- Hire someone to mow and weed yard so hubby and i can play with kids
- Hire someone to wash windows
- Have the house washed
- Hire a cleaning lady every 2 weeks so house is clean and we have more time with kids
- Treat myself to weekly massage
- Sign up for a yoga class
- Grow my nails
- Get my hair colored
- Time with hubby each week (Friday date night?)
- Deepen relationship with hubby–less stress more fun
- Take vitamins and balance my iron levels
- Reach a healthy weight under 150 pounds
- Take up tennis again
Professional:
- Find way to incorporate coaching again for fulfillment
- Get coaching for CM blog for fresh ideas to improve sales/marketing funnel
- Attend training or seminar quarterly to network and stay current
- Go through market motive training at work
- Go to wizard academy
- Turn CM into a social media marketing agency?
- Create a blogging contest for FW bloggers
- Revamp FW blog, opt in, side bar, etc.
- Create couponing training program with Shauna for FW
- Do weekly interview series with financial forum people and financial bloggers for FW
- Turn FW interview series into weekly podcast
- Become a regular contributor for another website for FW
- Use send out cards for Arbonne again
- Create opt in for becoming me
- Post weekly on becoming me
- Post weekly on cm
- Focus more on video for cm
- Get an assistant for fw to help expand social
- Hire a VA for cm
- Speak on stage trainings at seminars
- Develop speaking skills
- Create complete training system for cm
- Write a book (turn CM into a book)
- Write a book (becoming me)
Financial:
Send our daughter on the DC trip with school (Paid balance in full 12/23/2011)- Save new car for hubby
- Tithe regularly
- New family car
- Save for retirement so that we have 100K per year living money
- Have 3 months savings in the bank
- Have 5K in the bank for emergencies
- Pay cash for a new car for the kids
- Pay off all credit card debt
- Get a month ahead on all bills
- Pay off second mortgage
- Pay off mortgage
Travel:
- Go to Rio de Janiero
- See castles in Scotland
- Visit Yellowstone
- Take a paddle boat cruise down the Mississippi
- Family vacation to Mexico
- Family vacation to LA, San Diego, etc.
- Visit Thailand
- Family vacation to Hawaii
- Drive to Alaska
- Plan an overnight trip for each child yearly to shop, theater, or whatever they want with mom and dad
- Girls vacation spa trip with both of my girls when they’re older
- Girls vacation with mom and sister
- San Francisco with hubby
- Family vacation to north east shore (NJ)
- Family vacation to Grand Canyon and out west
- Family vacation to Europe
- Family vacation to Disney
- Yearly romantic vacation with hubby
- Take a tropical cruise
- See the arches in Utah
- Take cruise to Alaska to see glaciers
- Take the badger line ferry across Lake Michigan
- Visit Shenandoah valley
- Vacation in Hilton Head
- Vacation in Mackinac
- Go to Australia
- Trip to NYC with kids
- Go to the cedar point amusement park in Sanduski OH
- Go to Maine, see the crabbing and eat lobster
- Go to Seattle
- Take a romantic weekend in Chicago, ride the train in, eat a Geja’s, see a play (Bought Groupon for Hotel 1/6/2012)
- Go to Monterrey California for a romantic trip
- Go to wine country
Adventure:
- Learn to speak French
- Learn to speak Spanish
- Skate boarding lessons for daughter
- Games for the kids’ x-box
- Get another dog
- Take cake decorating classes with daughter
- Buy husband guitar and lessons
- Buy husband a GTO to restore
- Finish “old man winter” carvings
- Live on water front property in Wisconsin
- Have an art studio and writing studio
- Remodel an old house after kids are grown
- Take a sculpting class
- Float the Colorado river through the grand canyon
- Learn to sail
- Finish pilot’s license
- Float Namakagon river with family, and camp on shore
- Float the Wisconsin river with hubby, kids and dad
- Kayak the apostle island caves
- Sail from Chicago to Mackinac
- Fly to all 48 states
- Fly to Alaska
- Fly in an open cockpit Steerman
- Learn to play the piano
- Take up photography again
- Write a book (children’s book with photos)
- Paint again
- Get proficient at pottery again
- Archery for kids and hubby
- Karate for hubby
- Help hubby build a cedar strip canoe
- Compete in the annual Namakagon regatta
- Own a convertible (drive it to the cabin in the summer)
- Have the ability to move around and if we like a place, stay there for a while, if we want to move on, be able to
- Go camping in Colorado with the kids
- Be on a boat in the ocean or great lakes far enough out where you can’t see land
- Camp in Aisle Royale
- See a moose
- Go fly fishing in Montana or Wyoming
- Canoe the boundary waters in Ely Minnisota
- Scuba dive
- Go down hill skiing with the kids
- Ride in and finish the scenic shore 150 and other longer bicycle of rides
- Take the Amtrak Southwest Chief train trip/vacation
Material:
Put in alarm system (Installed 12/31/2011)
- Have a big fish tank for family room
- Laptop for daughter’s 8th grade graduation gift
- Fish tanks for kid’s rooms
- Knock down wall on stairs and put in banister
- Put in a pool for the kids
- Get a hot tub in back yard
- Fence in back yard
- Recarpet upstairs
- Add hardwood floors in family room
- Expand kitchen into dining room
- Buy a gas kiln
- Buy a sailboat
- Buy a plane
- Insulate garage and heat it for pottery
- Get a bigger TV for bedroom
- Build a media room in basement
- Move family room gas fire place to office in basement
- Convert family room fireplace to wood burning
- Get a piano and learn to play
- Have professional family photos for the both sides of the family
- Help send other kids in need to college
- Help my kids graduate from college debt free
- Sponsor a family in need every year for Christmas
- Landscape yard – boulders
- Outdoor lighting
- Riding lawn mower
- Swing set for son
- SLR digital camera
- Braces for the kids
- Build room to move office to basement
- Decorate FW office
- Decorate living room
- Redecorate dining room to get rid of red walls
- New dining room furniture
- Living room furniture
- Patio furniture
- Get a new family car big enough for all 5 of us
Clear out toys and give them to new baby (1/7/2012)
- Declutter bins of clothing in basement–keep only hand-me-down clothes
- Build laundry room in basement
- Turn laundry room into coat closet
- Turn coat closet into pantry
- Closet organizers for all the bedroom closets
- Bedroom dressers and mirror for our room
- New curtains for our room
- Jacuzzi tub
- Upholster lazyboy in bedroom
- Upholister chairs in family room
- New family room furniture
- Insulate the attic
- New cell phones (iphone?)
- Laptops for kids with study area in basement
- Own a truck again
- Own a jeep again
- Own a convertable
- Own a tandem bike
Blogging My Weight
I was on the rooftop of a hotel in downtown LA at a book signing party when I met the woman who inspired this blog. You know the connection you feel when you meet someone whose story is so much like your own, you can finish each others’ sentences? That’s what meeting Kristi was like for me.
We were drinking Cabernet (yummy) and chatting about the blogging conference we attended and sharing what we did. She’s self employed and I’m working for non-corporate (a wacky fun company with a Google-type atmosphere) but our jobs are the same: social media managers.
Both of us overweight (me more than she), got to talking about the struggles of weight loss and she mentioned that she’s been blogging her weight every week and told me I should too. I almost spit the sip of wine I had just taken in her face. What? No way! You can’t make me.
I think about my weight in round numbers. Details stress me out. I’ve gained 30 pounds with each kid–I’m a mom of 3–so you do the math. Plus a few more here and there–thank you non-corporate for the catered lunches and snacks. I’ve lost hundreds, but always gained it back and I’ve been at the point of feeling like so many things in my life are out of control that I can’t add weight loss to the list and stay sane.
But I hit a round number limit that made me want to die. I promised myself I’d never get there, and in the surreal wee hours of the morning, I realized I’d not only gotten there, I’d passed it. Shit.
So while Kristi was rambling on about her green smoothies and wanting a juicer , I wondered if blogging would hold me accountable?
Fast forward a few weeks (due to traveling and Black Friday craziness at work)…while I’m not ready yet to post a picture of the scale, I have at least made the baby-step to build this blog and write this post. Progress!
That’s what this blog is about…living in a place of continuous personal growth.
Sounds yummy to me.
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