Goals

It has taken me almost half a year to realize that I haven’t written {or thought} about my goals for this year!

I find it helpful to do as the goal-setting  pundits proclaim, which is to  write my goals and visit them regularly to see where I am and to fine-tune them. So, here is first-draft goal statement.

1. In 2008, possibly in the spring or in the fall, I want to make a road trip from Vermont –driving  first to North Carolina to visit my younger son and then on to Mississippi to visit my older son. My thinking on this is to concentrate on seeing my family on the way down, which means no side trips and then visiting anything I find interesting on my leisurely way back to Vermont.
2. In 2008, possibly in the spring or in the fall, I also want to fly to England to visit my brother-in-law.
3. This year, I want to go back to walking at least 30 minutes a day. This, of course, is the reason I am having the surgery in 13 days. As part of my complete recovery, I will be walking although, of course, not 30 minutes a day to start with.
4. Right now, I weigh 180 pounds. I want to weigh 160-165 pounds which means I need to lose 20 pounds. If I break this into 5 pound mini-goals, I know I can do this by the end of the year by going back to portion control, writing down calories AND walking . {It has just occurred to me that it is going to be difficult to write down calories during the 6 weeks I will be in Italy, but to balance out the "amazing" Italian food {I quote my sister here}, I will be walking a lot!}
5. A long-distance goal for 2011 is to be reasonably fluent in Italian. Right now, I define this as being able to understand and take part  in an everyday-type conversation in Italian. I have several ideas to help me with this which I will elaborate on in another entry.

Ok, this is just a start. This doesn’t mean I will add more goals to the list. It just means I need to think out my steps I will reach these goals.

QUOTATION: If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

— David Viscott

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