Life in the Middle Lane

Going through the first month of the #goalmeetup I realize that I treat my monthly goals as one part “Life To-Do List”, one part “Habits to Create” and one part “Stuff I know I need to do but I’m procrastinating on”.

I’m thanking for the group coming to check up on my every month. It makes me more accountable for getting shit done. And I need that in my life.

I think I did a pretty good job of meeting last month’s goals, and that gives me the confidence to reach a little higher and more closely connect my small goals to some larger goals.  I have found my “5 most important things to work on list” to be quite useful, but those are just the 5 things I need to do to stay sane. If I want to be productive, feel some forward momentum, and feel like I’m working towards my purpose, I’m going to have to step it up a notch (or 3). If I’m going to treat this exercise like a to-do list, it better be a bad-ass to-do list.

1. Get a new hairstyle- I’ve been wearing the same ‘do since I cut all my hair off last year. It’s growing in very nicely, now I want to experiment and do something new to it

2.  Go to more professional networking events and talk to people- I keep finding cool Atlanta people online, now I just have to meet them in person.

3. Find a therapist. I was in therapy the entire 2 years I was in graduate school, so I wanted to try to go without one now. Big Mistake! I need to get back on that bandwagon.

4. Get back in touch with Jenny Ferry. Even after I dropped my therapist, I worked with Jenny and that helped me stay on track-mentally. I loved my relationship with her, so I want to plan coaching sessions during the weeks I’m not having therapy. I want to work with Jenny on my career development.

5.  Write more consistently here and at CU. I have a huge list of things to write about, and a stack of half-finished blogs.

6.  Practice writing- here and in my personal journals. I want to develop my writing skills, and that takes deliberate practice. I need to work on getting things written faster and better.

7.   Knock out some grants for my new part-time job- I just got an assignment as a grant writer. I need to complete a few grants. My payment depends on it!!

8.  Continue and revisit the goals from last month. Many of the goals from September are things I want to continue.  In order to turn those goals into habits, I need to be reminded of them- so I’m going to continue to add them to the new goals list.

Thank you guys for helping me along! Good luck to everyone else on meeting their goals.