Goals Goals Goals

This is the post promised on goals and now is the time it goes live. 1-31-12

This was actually written a while ago, toward the beginning of the month.

So I have been thinking about Goals and such and I am learning that I am not a Goal achiever. I am however a to-do list maker.

Here is an essay(Lol I don't claim to be a writer in any form of the word, so for me to call it an essay I am just being silly) that I wrote last week about resolutions.

Out with 2011 and In with 2012

I love the New Year when it rolls around each year. It brings motivation for change!

BUT- This is the dialogue that went around in my brain this year.

Each year I make resolutions and some happen but mostly they get forgotten. This year I realized that they are pretty much the same each year; better scripture Study, more sincere prayers, healthier eating, work on Christ like attributes, etc. So my question to myself is why is it hard to master just one of these things in a year?

When I think of mastering something I think of something that becomes second nature to you and you no longer think about it as a chore. For example brushing my teeth twice a day, driving a car, reading , simple math are all things I just do without consciously thinking. I have concluded that the things I have mastered are because they are in my daily routine and I formed a pattern.

OH, Ok! I am slow but I get it now, so for my resolutions to be mastered I need to make them part of my daily routine so I can form a pattern, Duh!! Easy Peasy, not! So this year I resolve to pick 3 things to master on my list. I am going back to the basics once again; Scripture, Pray, Healthy life. Why is this so hard???

Wait a minute, now I am all overwhelmed again about Resolution and Setting goals for the New Year. This plate of leftover Christmas Cookies needs to be eaten or thrown away, I hate to waste things: munch* eat* crunch. What a vicious cyle!!! Stop the madness!!

The next day, after writing this, John was gently encouraging me to get some laundry done. I jumped back in bed and pulled the covers over my head, because that always makes things better, and yelled "My resolution this year is to be a "LOSER". Not what he wanted to hear but when I thought about it, it makes for a win-win year for both us. If I truly turn out to be a LOSER then I have kept my resolution, I win, but if I get out of bed each day and get some things done then, it is a win again.

After much laughing and teasing about me being a LOSER ,I got up and did laundry and many other productive things and Saturday was the same way. I really don't like the sound of LOSER, but it works for me right now. I am still looking for my word for the year so what is a positive form of this word?

So I am anti-goal setting with all the plans and checks and follow through and and and, by the time I get that all done I might have my goal achieved. I do like to write a list of things I want to accomplish and at some point they get done. I have been plugging along this week at my list and have not been a Loser one day yet. So you might say my goal is to not keep my resolution.

My word to live by last year was IMAGINE. It was fun imagining all year what could be and than became what I imagined and more. I found a little rock at Pier 1 that had imagine on it and I had to buy it to go with my joy rock. Hmm, I wonder if I will ever find a rock with LOSER on it, I better not pick that word I guess, lol.