Setting (Achieving) Goals via A List
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
My friend Roy made a goal list in May of this year and I was tracking how well he would do at it ; ). So yesterday he posted that he completed one of the items I remember from the list and I thought I'd check to see how he did on his 7 month Agenda.
I have to say he did a pretty good job!!! I know he moved out (1) so that also means he doesn't need a bus pass (6) , he saved on his car insurance with PC Financial (7), I've heard tell he's been on a few dates (8) and looks like his holidays are coming up so he can finish up some of the travelling (2). I have no doubt he's completed 3,4,5 without much strenuous effort : )
I made a to do list for when I retire and Roy's case study prompted me to see how I did;
(made this list April)
- Start Painting Again (I've done one painting and one legible drawing since starting my time off)
- Golf more (I've golfed more in the last two weeks than I did the entire last two years)
- Work on Woodworking Projects (no progress here...and don't anticipate any)
- Take Another Computer Course (learn flash) (no progress here...switched to finance courses)
- Sit on Our Patio and Read (done)
- Sit on Our Patio and Drink beer and/or wine (no problem there)
- Climb Mount Kilamanjaro (saw the imax documentary...does that count?)
- Learn French and Spanish (delayed)
- Start running seriously again (I walk and bike because running hurts my head)
- Start Playing Squash (On course for September)
- Learn to drive manually (Nope)
- Poke Andrew (no problem there)
Next on my agenda: Make a new to do list
posted by aforward @ 2:53 PM,
1 Comments:
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At 3:35 PM,
royassaly said...
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Yeah,
(2) the travelling bit I'm definitely gonna do, just not to France or Lebanon due to the war. Japan and Australia might be done in December. So in the 8th month :)
(8) is the most difficult. Meeting girls is easy. Meeting the right girl is hard :S
I actually started the practice of writing goals in grade 10 when our teacher told us to write 10 goals for the entire high school career. So the remaining 4 years. I kept that list for 4 years and was able to achieve all of them :)
My turn now. I'll keep track of your goals :)
