After digging around many times for my post on my 2011 goals, it dawned on me to plunk it right here for easy reference.
My 2011 theme: Growth (I’m growin’ in two thousand and eleven!)
My three guiding words/phrases:
- Growing my connection to my family and community
- Growing my health and wealth
- Growing as a host of conversations that matter
“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.” William Butler Yeats
My detailed goals and to-dos:
Growing my connection to my family and community:
- Interview a family member to record their story
- Write a letter to my parents telling them how much they mean to me
- Write a letter to my grandmas
- Do something unique and heartfelt for Natty once/month
- Take Nat to a Cirque du Soleil show (Quidam?)
- Contribute to children’s literacy through the Love of Reading foundation
- Pro-bono hosting work for an organization doing good in the world
- Support Dead Poet Society as conversation designer and host, supporting the whole
Growing my health and wealth:
- Pay down debt by another chunk (S)
- CrossFit or yoga 4 times a week (get to 35 unassisted pushups without stopping)
- Water before every meeting
- Home cooked meal once/week
- 18 breaths minimum twice/day
Growing as a host of conversations that matter:
- Give a talk (to at least 5 people and a Pecha Kucha sized crowd)
- Design conversations for a better world (host minimum once/quarter at work)
- Go to BIF 7 and host a conversation there
- Participate in a Women’s Circle
- Participate in OST learning experience
- Participate in Systems Thinking workshop and conversation *done January 2011*
- Do The Work once/week and before every facilitation
- Blog every day for 30 days
- One of: Art of Hosting retreat, AIN workshop, The Grove, or Cognitive Edge
- Have my very own two day silent retreat (no computer) at the cabin
And then remember this Japanese mantra: Fall down seven times, get up eight.
What did you use for your 2011 goal planning process? How will you make it your best year yet?
Hello Amanda,
How great to meet you via blog. I am still thinking about my goals for the year… spent some time getting clear about them on February 2– which in the Celtic calendar is Imbolc, the day for cleaning out the winter ashes (I took a bucket from our stove to the woods and scattered them–being first sure they were dead out!), the lighting of new candles (friends came over for dinner and we ceremoniously went from room to room and lit a new taper in each space) and for renewing vows. I will share two of them here:
*to make self-honoring choices about how I expend my time and energy, particularly in managing day to day life;
* to continue to believe in Divine presence, in the resilience of life and Gaia, to look for and hold up human goodness, to name and celebrate acts of love in all their guises.
I am so glad that coming to the Circle Practicum is on your list for the year as well–what a joy it will be to sit in this learning process together. Blessings, til soon– Christina B.
Warmest welcomes Christina – so lovely to chat with you here and look forward to meeting you in August. And thank you for sharing those two vows – I can feel their guiding power just reading them on the screen.