First Steps for New Year Goal Setting

I have started my new years gola setting and it is really taking the form of a big list right now. I hope that you read the bit I wrote a couple of days ago about Setting New Years Goals as it really laid out a great overview of what you need to do this week.

I know that some people think that it is best to sit down for a couple of hours and really do the work of setting goals but I hate the idea. I tend to have a one track mind at a time and am sure that I would miss stuff so I am just working with the first couple of bits right now.

Review of 2008

I am making a long list of all the tings that I did, got and achieved in 2008 and in addition all the failures, disappointments, and bad decisions that I made.

Even though we are always supposed to be thinking positive don’t you think that you would be setting youorself up for failure if you did not look at what you do poorly or fail at?

So my list is positive and negative and up to about 50 or so items. The list includes things like the rapid growth of this blog, getting a good digital camera, but also not running the 10k that was a goal from last year but not achieved.

Hopes, Dreams, and Goals for 2009

So this first list leads a bit to the 2nd list. The things that I want to get, achieve, and move towards for next year. This list has about 20 or so items so far and has everything from that 10k from my previous list (a holdover to next year), building more sites, Disneyland, and even that I want ot spend more time with the kids.

My lists are very diverse and include at this point everything that I would want to do, have and be.

I don’t want ot get ahead of the process except to let you know that as you go through creating these two list you can have 100 or more items in each list which is perfectly OK because we can weed it down in the next step. When you are making these lists don’t filter. If one of the things was to drive a cruiseship and it is not possible it may tweak your interest that you always wanted to at least go on a cruise. Haveing big dreams will make the smaller ones come out as well. So don’t filter your ideas.

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