Goals.

Goals, goals, goals.

What better way to start the morning then by going through my brain and figuring out what goals I want and what habits I want to create over the next year. It’s like cleaning for me, only it’s inside of head instead of in my closet.

I get to dust off boxes and unpack them. I get to clear out the cobwebs, polish the shelves, and figure out what is really up there.

It’s like exploring and discovering. I am an adventurer in the Amazon, trudging through an exotic and wonderfully dangerous landscape. I’m left in awe at the enormity of some of the thoughts I didn’t even know existed in my mind. I am amazed, dumbstruck, at the shear potential and might of some of these hidden creatures within myself.

I get to organize and structure. I get to reflect on what I want and why, or what I don’t want and why. I get to analyze why things are important and remember experiences that taught me about life and myself. I get to evaluate and critique.

Does anything need to be tossed out? Does anything need to be put back into place? Can I pack anything away into my ‘memories’ box; the one that has my graduation gown and all of my high school marching band shirts?

I’ve given up hope of finding my sanity, but there’s a special spot for it if I ever stumble across it again. I don’t know what I would do with myself if I ever seriously found it to be honest. I’ve grown so use to being bat-shit insane with my goals and ambitions I don’t think I would feel comfortable functioning ‘normally’.

I think I would be left wondering who I was and what had happened to Jen.

I love this part of the process. The brainstorming stage. It doesn’t have to be about life. Anything that requires planning requires creativity. I get to imagine how it’s all going to work out, what has to happen and in what order. It’s amazingly right brained for me, but also left brained. It’s all about creating the big picture but drawing in the little detailed trees that get you to the larger whole.

I love, love, planning things. I love the forward momentum. I love the purpose and drive that figuring out what the tangible, doable steps for my goals are. It makes them feel real. It makes them feel achievable. I know what I want, and I know what I have to do to get there. Once this stage is complete my goals simply become a matter of time.

This is the stage of making a battle plan, and I am ruthless when it comes to this. I will get to my goal. I will take no prisoners. I will show no mercy.

I will be an unstoppable force for nature. An Earth Dragon of unquestionable resolve.

Side note: I promise I didn’t add “World Domination” to my goal list… Yet… : D

So, Day 3. Write down at least 10 crazy, insane, awesome goals. Nothing is too large, too hard, too scary. Once they are written down, compare them to the key priority statement formed yesterday.

Do the goals line up with that key priority or do any of the goals dishonor it in some way? Be hardcore honest about this. If a goal detracts from the key priority, rethink that goal. This is all about finding balance and inner peace. If any of the goals detracts from the key priority then more discord and unrest will be created, which is missing the whole point.

Tomorrow this list becomes super important because it’s going to be used to figure out the ‘push’ goal. The uber goal that aught to be placed at the top of the list.

It’s important that the goals written today be measurable. Give things with a specific time frame, specific numbers. Not “some time soon,” or “be healthier.” Details are important. The details let us know if we have truly, 100% reached our goal.

It’s also important to write the goals as if they have already been achieved.

You’re a bawce. You’ve already been successful. Feel how awesome it is to have reached your amazing goals. Feel that drive and passion. That’s an important part of the process.

So. Without further ado, here it is. My goal list. (Sorry that my brain high jacked my pencil. I have a bit more than 10).

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Goals

1. I paid off my credit card debit by December.
2. I created and Etsy store by December.
3. I earned $500 from my Youtube channel by December.
4. I created 5 new rigs by August.
5. I completed a new rigging demo reel by December.

6. I hosted the 3^rd 3D Blitz event by August.
7. I completed 5 Shading and Lighting scenes by August.
8. I created a Shading and Lighting / Hard Surface Modeling reel by December.
9. I raised $500 through selling my cross stitchings at the Faculty Art Show in April.
10. I took one weekend each month to explore Florida or to visit a location I wanted to see.

11. I became a black belt in aikido by December.
12. I became a black belt in taekwondo by December.
13. I ran a 5k race by July.
14. I became a Certified Maya User by December.
15. I read at least one leisure book each month.

16. I watched at least one movie each month that I have wanted to see.
17. I completed at least one personal, non-work / non-school related project each month.
18. I have completed one personal work related project each week.
19. I exercised at least 10 hours each week; one hour for aikido/ taekwondo, and one hour of strength / cardio / yoga.
20. I read at least one personal growth book each month.

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