This week's work trip? Albeit shorter than four days, it was a huge success. I learned my lesson. I worked out, had my quiet times, journaled like a crazy person, and even found some time to sight-see. Oh, and I finished The Circle Maker.
Speaking of which....
I made a life goal list. The author shared his list toward the end of the book and challenged readers to come up with their own, as a way to document and realize dreams. That "at some point in the process of goal setting, you need to muster up the courage to verbalize it. That act of verbalization is an act of faith." Besides, it was God's idea in the first place, "Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets." (Hab. 2:2 NASB)
So here it goes. I took the author's idea and divided up my life goals into a few categories:
- Experiential Goals - things I want to experience or be a part of.
- Physical Goals - things I want to accomplish health-wise.
- Family Goals - dreams I want to realize for my immediate family and my future family (future hubby + kids). Just so you all know, almost every single goal in this section brought me to tears.
- Financial Goals - things I want to accomplish with my financial resources.
- Influential Goals - things I want to accomplish with the talents and skills God has given me.
These goals are not in any specific priority order. Also, you may think some of these numbers are big and others are too small. Hope none of these goals disappoint - I documented what I felt called to document. I'm convinced of Eph. 3:20, so my numbers may even just end up being a moot point.
Enjoy!
Experiential Goals
- Watch a UK Men's basketball team win a NCAA Championship (in person)
- Skydive in New Zealand before I turn 30
- Adopt a Compassion International child from India
- Memorize an entire book of the Bible
- Be in a movie
- Learn to surf
- Go on a hot air balloon ride
- Go to a TED conference
- Vacation in the Greek Isles
- Tour the Holy Land - Jerusalem & Israel
- Get married on a beach
- Go to Fiji on vacation
- See the aurora borealis
- Take a gondola ride in Venice
- Grow & maintain a vegetable garden
- Learn to play a song on the piano
- Fly a plane
- Take a photography class
- Visit all 50 states
- Visit all 7 continents
- Donate hair to Locks for Love
- Learn to roller blade. And do it well.
- Volunteer with a prison ministry
- Hike the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim
- Run a full marathon
- Become a certified spinning / cycling instructor
- Bike a century (100 miles)
- Run a trail advertised in Runners' World magazine
- Become proficient (able to instruct) in pilates / barre workout
- Attain and maintain my goal weight for my height (130 lbs.)
- Participate in a relay team for a long-distance running race
- Go on a vacation with my hubby + my sis & her hubby
- Witness the song "7x70" by Chris August, in my own family
- Give birth to 4 children
- Take each of my kids to India
- Memorize scripture with my kids
- Take each of my kids to a UK Men's basketball game at Rupp Arena
- Go on vacation with my entire family: my parents, my sister & her hubby + their kids, me & my hubby + our kids
- Have a family reunion with my extended family from India
- Host Thanksgiving for my entire family: my parents, my sister & her hubby + their kids, me & my hubby + our kids
- Take a ladies spa retreat weekend with my mom and sis
- Raise my family in the same city as my sis & her hubby + their kids
- Memorize scripture with my grandkids
- Host a sleepover with my niece(s) / nephew(s)
- Go on a mission trip with my hubby + kids
- Make an anonymous, sizeable donation ($1M or more) to a church
- Live on 10%, tithe 90%
- Become debt-free by age 50
- Pay back my parents for the seed money they gave me for the down payment on my first home
- Help a family adopt a child from overseas
- Help each of my kids buy their first home
- Financially support my parents when they're in their retirement
- Help my bridesmaids with any expenses for my wedding
- Take my kids & their spouses + my grand kids on vacation
- Free lance for a magazine
- Publish a book about my family's story
- Mentor someone
- Teach a college course
- Become involved in a professional board (corporate or academic)
- Become a board member of a faith-based non-profit
- Develop at least 10 people who get promoted to people-leadership positions
- Personally lead someone to Christ
May God divinely ordain anything that is added to this list and divinely ordain everything that is crossed off this list. For HIS glory.
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