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December 28, 2005
Goals
I've been thinking a lot about goals lately.
The hospital I work for has a big party for the employees that have 100% attendence. Their time frame is the fiscal year vs the calender year so they have the party in July for anyone who successfully didn't call off since the previous July. I didn't get to go last year (I maybe had 2 or 3 call offs?) but had made it my goal to have 100% attendence this year. Well it turns out that I didn't even make it half of the year because I called off today! My cold turned ugly last night - I just felt awful. One of those nights where you sleep about 3 hours because you continually wake up to cough, blow your nose, and just because you are feeling down right crummy. When my alarm went off I actually did feel a little better but knew I would be miserably tired if I did go into work. So I called off, crept under the covers and slept for another 4 hours. Heaven! And after I woke up I laid in bed for another 4 hours reading. Needless to say I'm feeling much better. It's amazing what a little R&R can do!
So at the loss of one goal, I think I'm about to achieve another one. My goal to read 3 books this year took a very encouraging jump today as I finished my 2nd book and only have about 150 pages of my 3rd book to read. At least today wasn't a total loss... :)
And I did still go to the YMCA tonight with O. I really did feel much better so I went with the goal of lifting and only doing the spinning class I had signed up for if I felt okay after the lift. I felt fine so O and I both took the spinning class. And I still feel fine. Good deal!
In other goal news, O and I evaluated our 2005 goals and formulated our 2006 goals last night. We achieved all but 2 of our 2005 goals, one of which was a goal that was for me only, to run under 19 minutes in a 5K and under 40 minutes in a 10K. Given the fact that I've been injured for 9 of the 12 months this year, I'll excuse myself from that goal. :)
Some of our 2006 goals are the same as 2005, but just beefed up. Instead of reading 3 books each we have to read 4 books! (I know, I know...I must start earlier this time! :) Instead of doing 2 outreach activities with the church we are aiming to do 3, etc... And some of the goals are new. I don't have any running goals but instead have made a goal of completing 2 triathlons. We each also added some career goals. It should be interesting. I highly recommend doing this goal thing. I'm very, very driven by achieving goals so it's a very good activity for me, but I think it would work for just about anyone. A lot of our goals aren't necessarily earth shattering but are designed to get us to do stuff we would probably enjoy, but just wouldn't do otherwise (aka reading :).
Anyway, I'm not off to plant my flower. It's an amaryllis that you plant in a pot and it grows indoor. It was a Christmas gift. I know nothing about flowers, or anything that grows in the ground for that matter, so this will be a learning experience. Perhaps one of my 2006 book should be around gardening! :)
Posted by beth at December 28, 2005 8:09 PM
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That is great Beth, good luck finishing the third book!
Posted by: Barb at December 29, 2005 4:39 PM
I love to read blog posts about goals and similar stuff, and this post is no exception. Great post! Happy holidays, by the way (I'm just catching up on reading)!
Posted by: Meghan at December 30, 2005 1:10 AM