Life Planning

I tried to do some goal-setting for this next year last week. I read a book Michael got out of the library and used the do-it-yourself workshop at the back of the book. The book was all peppy and me-centered, but I thought the idea of sitting back for a moment (or a day) and trying to decide which goals to pursue first\’c3\’82\’c2\~ (yard vs. house, sewing vs. crocheting, reading aloud vs. artwork, etc.) was a good one. The idea is to set your goals, try to develop a positive mindset (stop telling yourself you can’t because….) and then train yourself to spend time doing important but not urgent things vs. important or unimportant urgent things. That way you’ll be ahead of yourself because you’ll have done the important things before they become urgent and you’ll hopefully have spent time on the things that will make a material difference in your life rather than frittering it away on all of those little necessities that are always there waiting to be done but that nobody will remember tomorrow, let alone in 50 years. First you make your yearly goals, and then ever month, and every week you’re supposed to make goals to accomplish toward the biggies. So this week I determined that under my first and main goal “declutter house” I just wanted to do two things: clean out an old shoebox left-over from Grandma’s residence here which she used to contain various odds and ends – some of which are useful to me, some of which might be useful to others, and some of which need to be thrown out; and clean off the windowsill in the utility room of the same sorts of things.\par
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Per the books instructions, I should’ve done those on Monday – because those are the important, long term difference things (not the shoebox necessarily, but the decluttering). I knew that. I planned on that. But today (Friday) I finally got around to it.\par
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Now, is this a success? Or a failure? Or just mediocre? After all, I did get it done! But I was about 5 days late. I don’t know. Hopefully, I’ll do better next week. It sure felt good though to get those two little things done and to know that I was actually doing something to work toward my long-term goal of being clutter-free!\par
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