Saturday, December 12, 2015

My Goal List 2016 - Part II

Here they are (for better or worse)

Get through Freshman year at UCF

Get a full time position

Travel to see family and friends on weekends

Use my phone less

Attempt yoga (again)

Go to Paris

Finish making old photos digital

Publish book of poetry (just do it already)

Use my planner properly

Exercise regularly

Get toned and fit

Spend more time at the beach (I live in FL, no excuses)

Make the last year before 50 memorable

Continue organizing family history documents

Order my grandfather's birth certificate

Photograph my city
Visit Yellowstone National Park or Yosemite

Spend more time with my kids (28, 26, 19) and grandkids

Go to Harry Potter World

Try crocheting again

Try every cheese in deli (3rd attempt)

Try new recipes

My list is much longer but as you can see it is a mixture of things I want to accomplish. For me goals serve as inspiration in life. I used to worry about the future too much, and fret about past events I could not change. Now I have learned to live in the present moment fully, while still moving forward every day in a positive, loving, forgiving way. Forgiving of my own faults as well as others, showing love to all and eliminating all negativity, because we are all on the same wonderful journey called life.

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Poem Selection

Desiderata

By Max Erhmann

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,

and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,

even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter,

for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble,

it's a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery.

But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;

many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.

Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love;

for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,

it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,

gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars;

you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you,

no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive him to be.

And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life,

keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.