Priorites

I have outlined my new goals for 2010. FINALLY!

I have planned out my training and started the program. Last year although I was not successful at everything I set out to do, it really brought the lesson home about setting priorities, making a plan, definining how to achieve the plan and follow thru.

The daily routine for me is the hardest ... doing the important things every day! I get caught up in the urgent things, and with a life as busy as mine its pretty easy to get buried under urgent and important gets put off again and again. My husband is probably the best example of a person who can manage his life, once you know his priorities/goals well you can pretty much predict how everything is going to go. Its rare that he deviates ... true its hard to get him to commit to something but once his interest is caught well its all over but the doing. I have always envied him this ability/trait/characteristic to set his sights and then go get it (whatever it may be).

My hubby describes me as a hummingbird ... busy busy busy, dart here, dart there, multitasking like crazy. I get alot done but the question is ... was it worth doing? Do all these tasks I accomplish take me farther down the road to achieving my goals? Unfortunately for me ... not always. So its all about keeping my focus and sticking with my priorities.

Some pithy remarks to keep me on track,

You have to start something before you can finish it
Slow and steady wins the race
If you don't succeed at first, then try try again
You can only fail if you quit
When the going gets tough the tough get going

Feel free to contribute any one liners you believe are inspiring.

Summary for 2009

It was really a busy year, and I actually had to go back to my original list of goals for 2009 to remember all the things I had set out and checked off.

• Create and perform my own form @ the Tiger Challenge - done and performed Spring of 2009.
• 50 pushups (real ones) a day for a total of 18,250 for the year - failed miserably on this one ... it looked good until July of 2009 then I had two car accidents one in July & one in October and was reduced to knee pushups at best.
• 50 situps a day for a total of 18,250 for the year - set this one way to easy ... increased it to 100 a day ... so I blew this one out of the water.
• Anger Management Course - done back in April of 2009 ... learned alot
• Silver level in 8 dances (ballroom dancing) - completed in Nov 2009
• Compete in ballroom dance competition - completed in Oct 2009
• Know Tai Chi long form by Sept 2009 - so I know it better than I did before but its not ready to show Sifu Brinker ... needs more work.
• Leadership Project ... crashed and burned ... good idea, the implementation was the problem ...

Read:

• A New Earth - I've started it three times this year, having a hard time finishing, can't speed read your way thru this one.
• No Impact Man - great book, learned alot
• Three Cups of Tea - great book, this guy knows how to stick to his committments
• The Peaceful Warrior - still collecting dust on the bookshelf
• Being Peace - small book ... big messages ... I will be reading this a few times over as I have a tendancy to speed read and miss things and you don't want to miss anything in this one.

What I learned ... daily routines were the hardest to implement and stick to, I got what I got done in starts and spurts, the pushups, situps and tai chi suffered the most from my failure to commit to a daily/weekly routine of training. I am disappointed in my performance on this ... it wasn't even that hard to do 50 pushups a day or go thru my tai chi form, I just failed to make these things a priority and rearrange my schedule to incorporate them as part of my day. I got caught up in the urgent tasks and not the IMPORTANT ones.

Still I got alot more accomplished than I would have had I not set these goals, which is I guess the point and it made me aware that I need to rework my planning for 2010 to eliminate or at least reduce my tendancy to get caught up in busy work

I attended an Alpha Mind Course this weekend that included some work on Goal Setting so I should have new year goals all set out by the end of the month.