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Making the life I want: Goals for 2010

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Buh-bye 2009! You were not a year I will look back on fondly, but it wasn’t that bad of a year either. I learned a lot about myself this year, and I thought I did great not losing my mind when things that I would have called a earth-ending-disaster a few years ago happened to me in 2009. I have really learned to be spiritually calm this last year. Now I want to start actually getting the whole of my life in order in 2010.

Of course the beginning of a year brings all sorts of promise. I am always inspired to get my crap together and I come up with all these plans, and I don’t usually follow through. Mostly because I get overwhelmed. Plus I never really give myself any sort of clear idea of what I want to accomplish. This year I am not going to make resolutions. I’m going to really make an effort to set and keep some goals. I hope by writing them out it will help keep me on track. So here are my categorized goals for 2010:

Personal:

  • Wake up at 6am every week day
  • Drink at least 64 ounces of water a day
  • WiiFit 3 days a week
  • Take my vitamins regularly
  • Get haircuts and eyelash tints on a regular schedule
  • Get outside and do fun things at least once a week
  • Spend 30 minutes a day on personal development
  • Quit smoking (again *sigh*)

Financial:

  • Regain control of finances
  • Start having family budget meetings
  • Start saving for emergencies

Household

  • Start menu planning and freezer cooking
  • Shrink our grocery budget to less than $100/week
  • Create a housekeeping schedule that keeps me from constantly doing housework
  • Get rid of all the clutter I don’t love
  • Paint the upstairs something other than white
  • Put new floors in the upstairs…carpet be gone!

On Monday I am going to post my business and blogging goals for 2010. These are the start of my goals for 2010. I have a feeling this is really going to be the year that I start to have the life I’ve always wanted. I am really looking forward to it, and very happy to say goodbye to 2009.

Quote-pile: A whole bunch of motivation

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I’m posting a motivational quote on Facebook and Twitter every weekday morning. I need this post to remind me of what I’ve already posted. Here’s the last couple weeks:

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~Elbert Hubbard

Your life is right now! It’s not later! It’s not in that time of retirement. It’s not when the lover gets here. It’s not when you’ve moved into the new house. It’s not when you get the better job. Your life is right now…. It will always be right now. You might as well decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it’s not ever going to get better than right now–until it gets better right now! — Abraham (This is one of my favorites so far)

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. -Og Mandino

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. – Albert Pine

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The only way to discover limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. -Arthur C Clarke

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~Margaret Young

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. ~Sir Winston Churchil

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. ~Anna Quindlen

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~-Albert Einstein

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. ~Mary Pickfor

There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better. ~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

You can follow these daily on my twitter account. Watch for these round-up posts every Saturday. Enjoy!

To hope is to risk pain.

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“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” -Carlos Castaneda

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” -Confucius

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~-Albert Einstein

“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.” -Unknown