Do you still set goals? (beach, spend, love, small)
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I set goals, mostly to avoid just frittering away my time. I know from experience I feel better if I am accomplishing things, so I keep a short list of things to get done in the short term and long term. A lot of it is around traveling and places I want to see.
This is what I think I need to start doing - I feel I am frittering time away. I have no interest in being "goal driven" or "metric driven," but I do want to make sure I plan and do things that are important to me on a personal level.
I have small goals..... waking up in the morning LOL that's a joke
but really, a five year plan for the yard which requires me to get things planted NOW.
I've already dealt with a large brush pile on the back of my property and been to the nursery to pick out trees. Next step is to tell them to come plant them. I will do that SOON.
I finally made my will and final arrangements after talking about it for at least 10 years.
Most things have to do with the house I bought about 5 years after I retired. Before that, I was sort of drifting. I found retirement to be safe and sometimes boring.... and yes, I was watching too much tv. I needed the rest but I wouldn't want to spend the remainder of my life that way.
I don't hold myself to a strict routine but I am aware that I no longer have all the time in the world.
Do write for your children. My mother did this and it means a lot to me and my kids. I took a computer class and got online for the first time when I retired. I got interested in geneology and matched my mother's manuscript to people and places. One of my boys was able to find a house she had lived in as a child on a trip west.
hope to have a better garden next summer. The heat was brutal this year and my tomatoes just fried away in the sun
hope to have a better garden next summer. The heat was brutal this year and my tomatoes just fried away in the sun
When I lived in Texas I planted my garden so it had the morning sun with afternoon shade.
Triple degree days will kill anything left in direct sunlight.
My veggies thrived and my tomato plant produced well into October.
My goals are to stay as physically and mentally fit as I can as I get older, and to increase in those areas where I can, as well as to grow spiritually. And to become more mellow and keep enjoying good chill and lounge music.
Yes. I call them my New Year's Resolutions. For the last I don't know how many years the number one goal/resolution is to lose 10 lbs. It STILL hasn't happened. But, most have to do with my house-organize this room or that, work on the garage, have this or that done to the house. But starting this year, I have also included a "summer reading list." I really enjoyed reading the books I did this summer so I am going to have another list of books to read-not just during the summer. I just haven't had time in the past couple of months.
I keep a journal. One of the first entries of the new year, I write down these goals/resolutions. Then at the end of the year, I revisit them and see if I have accomplish them. I confess, I don't always succeed.
I also wake up in the morning and think about what I want to accomplish-mostly it has to do with the house-doing laundry, or cleaning a certain room.
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But, most have to do with my house-organize this room or that, work on the garage, have this or that done to the house. But starting this year, I have also included a "summer reading list." I really enjoyed reading the books I did this summer so I am going to have another list of books to read-not just during the summer. I just haven't had time in the past couple of months. 
