Day 13: Goals.
Ummm...where to even start. From making teeny tiny goals every day or HUGE life goals. I make a lot of them. I do have to admit though...I am not the best at sticking to them.
For instance, I have had a goal to lose 10 pounds for about ummm....since March. How well has that goal gone? Yeah...it hasn't.
I also set a goal to start working out in the morning before work. Again, not so much. I have done it a few times here and there...YAY me. No really, it actually is pathetic...I don't have to be at work super early... I live 10 minutes from work and I work out at home. Enough said. I need to make this goal a reality ....like yesterday.
In all reality though I do have life goals that are important to me:
1. Be happy and fulfilled in my career by the age of 35. I don't necessarily have a dream of becoming "partner" at some snazzy law firm, or even owning my own practice. I am not quite sure what I want out of my career at the moment (but I am only 27 and have only been practicing law for about 1.5 years!) but I do know that at some point I want to LOVE what I do and feel a sense of accomplishment. Right now, that just isn't happening. Yes, I feel accomplishment at certain times and I feel good about my work product at others, but I don't necessarily love what I am doing right now and it is not completely satisfying my "career" goals. For the time being, I am in a good place. But, my GOAL is that by 35 I will be somewhere I love, doing something I love.
2. Live my life as a healthy, loving, Christian wife, daughter and friend.
3. Have a family of my own....sooner rather than later! Aaahhhhh....can't believe I just wrote that. WHAT am I thinking?? Ha. No really though...I am still not ready for kids, I am thoroughly enjoying married life and our time as a family of "2"...even though I guess we are a family of "3" with our sweet Mills. I have started to feel lately though that I am slowly beginning to see myself pregnant, with a baby, etc. This does NOT mean that this will happen anytime soon...but, for the longest time I was not anywhere in the same hemisphere as this feeling! I guess sometimes I do have a fear that I will wait a long time and then it will take us forever to get pregnant or we won't be able to at all. I know I know...that is all in God's hands. It's just so hard for me as an extreme "planner" to not think about it.
4. Have a strong, healthy marriage that lasts forever.
5. Be as good as a parent to my children as my parents were to me.
Now for some "just for fun/dreams" goals:
1. Lose that 10 pounds dang it.
2. Own a beach house one day.
3. Live on the lake
4. Travel the world extensively
5. Be able to retire at a good age with plenty in the bank
6. which would lead to my last goal: save more money!!!
Ummm...where to even start. From making teeny tiny goals every day or HUGE life goals. I make a lot of them. I do have to admit though...I am not the best at sticking to them.
For instance, I have had a goal to lose 10 pounds for about ummm....since March. How well has that goal gone? Yeah...it hasn't.
I also set a goal to start working out in the morning before work. Again, not so much. I have done it a few times here and there...YAY me. No really, it actually is pathetic...I don't have to be at work super early... I live 10 minutes from work and I work out at home. Enough said. I need to make this goal a reality ....like yesterday.
In all reality though I do have life goals that are important to me:
1. Be happy and fulfilled in my career by the age of 35. I don't necessarily have a dream of becoming "partner" at some snazzy law firm, or even owning my own practice. I am not quite sure what I want out of my career at the moment (but I am only 27 and have only been practicing law for about 1.5 years!) but I do know that at some point I want to LOVE what I do and feel a sense of accomplishment. Right now, that just isn't happening. Yes, I feel accomplishment at certain times and I feel good about my work product at others, but I don't necessarily love what I am doing right now and it is not completely satisfying my "career" goals. For the time being, I am in a good place. But, my GOAL is that by 35 I will be somewhere I love, doing something I love.
2. Live my life as a healthy, loving, Christian wife, daughter and friend.
3. Have a family of my own....sooner rather than later! Aaahhhhh....can't believe I just wrote that. WHAT am I thinking?? Ha. No really though...I am still not ready for kids, I am thoroughly enjoying married life and our time as a family of "2"...even though I guess we are a family of "3" with our sweet Mills. I have started to feel lately though that I am slowly beginning to see myself pregnant, with a baby, etc. This does NOT mean that this will happen anytime soon...but, for the longest time I was not anywhere in the same hemisphere as this feeling! I guess sometimes I do have a fear that I will wait a long time and then it will take us forever to get pregnant or we won't be able to at all. I know I know...that is all in God's hands. It's just so hard for me as an extreme "planner" to not think about it.
4. Have a strong, healthy marriage that lasts forever.
5. Be as good as a parent to my children as my parents were to me.
Now for some "just for fun/dreams" goals:
1. Lose that 10 pounds dang it.
2. Own a beach house one day.
3. Live on the lake
4. Travel the world extensively
5. Be able to retire at a good age with plenty in the bank
6. which would lead to my last goal: save more money!!!
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