As discussed in last week’s post about Finding Your Passion, the first steps are to undertake the 100 Goal Challenge and use your answers to identify your Driving Emotions.
I shared my Driving Emotions and their definitions in the previous post and as requested I’m sharing my list of 100 Goals with you today. I apologise in advance for the lengthy post (I’ve tried to break it up with images so it’s not just text). I hope the goals inspire you and help you in creating your own Life To-Do List (100 goals).
Looking through them I think I can break them down into my Defining the Best ME categories (Mental, Physical, Wisdom) and some fit into more than one category.
Here we go:
- Start/Run my own business
- Have 2 children/start a family
- Develop/run educational resources/sessions for business, community and schools/unis
- Visit the Great Barrier Reef
- Visit Tasmania
- Work internationally
- Travel to Europe/UK
- Do 30 minutes walk/run/ride daily
- Daily yoga
- Daily meditation
- Travel to Africa/See wild Gorillas
- Participate in 12hr Rogaine (I did this when I first got ill – before I realised how serious it was – and would love to have the energy/low pain levels to do it again)
- Contribute to charity regularly
- Publish Foggy Frog Picture book
- Work nationally
- Have annual holidays
- Build own house
- Annual income of $100,000 (This one I’m really not sure about, I’d be happy with earning just enough to live off, but the process said to dream big so that’s what I tried to do)
- Retire with enough financial security to continue annual holidays
- Celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary (It’s our 3rd this year)
- Continue to learn something new each year
- Learn to sew my own clothes
- Live as sustainably as possible
- Complete my Bachelor of Education
- Help others live sustainably
- Help others understand chronic illness
- Have monthly dinner parties with family and friends
- Have monthly games afternoons with friends (board games)
- Clean out old and unused things and give to people who will use them
- Set up my own space for sewing, drawing and studying
- Plant and maintain veg garden
- Find a mentor(s) to help me achieve my goals (I’ve found one business mentor already since setting this goal, but I feel that I would benefit from a team of people I can go to for advice/support)
- Schedule time weekly to reflect/review my goals and achievements
- Achieve work/life balance (need to work out what this actually means to me)
- Have a weekly ‘date’ with E
- Pay off our mortgage
- Only buy quality items
- Save 10% of my income
- Organise a financial plan
- Teach my children how to save, invest and create wealth for themselves (need to teach myself this first so I know what I’m talking about… still not too clear on investments and wealth creation)
- Teach my children to live sustainably
- Ensure I have regular health checks
- Read every week (would love daily if possible)
- Learn to live a fulfilling life with my chronic illnesses
- Swim regularly 1-2 x a week
- Visit T in Hong Kong
- Develop networks to help make my ideas reality
- Visit Japan
- Teach my children to cook
- Schedule time to draw
- Learn to belly dance
- Get a family dog
- Participate in a yoga/health retreat
- Find a hobby E and I can do together (used to hike regularly but I’m not up to that at this stage)
- Learn to be more assertive
- Get monthly massages
- Learn to play the guitar better
- Write 2 blog posts a week
- Spend a day by myself every 6 months focusing on reviewing and renewing my goals and plans
- Find a weekly routine that works (I feel very flustered lately as I can’t settle into one routine with things changing all the time)
- Write a will
- Go on a 4 week holiday by myself
- Write regular articles for other blogs/websites/media sources
- Learn to cook more delicious and healthy dairy and gluten free meals
- Spend time in nature regularly
- Enter writing competition and win
- Organise an annual event to raise awareness of, and funds for research into, chronic illness
- Act as a mentor for someone
- Have quarterly girls nights/afternoons/days with my closest friends
- Get Foggy Frog into libraries, schools and homes around the world
- Keep a gratitude jar and read the contents yearly
- Create a neighbourhood/community sustainability group to catch up and share ideas
- Be present and mindful every day
- Develop a morning and evening routine
- Keep a regular journal
- Incorporate physio recommended exercises/stretches into daily life
- Declutter my life
- Spend a weekend away with E every 6 months
- Learn more about business mangement and marketing
- Deliver a TED talk (about my work and education programs?)
- Smile every day
- Learn to deal with conflict
- Write every day
- Frame our pictures and display them in the house
- Interact with people who support my vision
- Make a firm career decision and pursue it
- Be well regarded and respected for my work
- Develop a realistic business plan, implement the plan and follow through
- Assist 10 people to live a fulfilling life with a chronic illness
- Get my superannuation strategy working for me
- Maintain a healthy weight
- Have regular skin checks
- Have monthly goals to focus on
- Build a team around me to help me reach my goals
- Be around for my children as much as possible
- Visit my Uncle in Vietnam
- Buy local as much as possible
- Focus on experiences not possesions
- Eat vegetables with every meal
- Focus on the good things in life
What I’ve learnt from creating this list
The following are the key important things I’ve pulled from my list:
- Helping others/Educating and Awareness Raising. As I go through this list I can count over 10 items that relate to helping/teaching others about different things.
- Having a support team and strong relationships with my family and friends. Again multiple items on the list focus on spending time with or identifying others who can help me/I can help them.
- Sustainable living. In terms of how I live my life, my financial security, and how I interact with others, having a positive impact instead of a negative one is key.
- Structure and Simplicity. In order to manage my illness and remain as healthy as possible I should aim to have some structure in my daily/weekly routines and I should simplify as much as possible. (This will be a focus of a future post)
Have you completed your 100 Goal Challenge?
If so, what have you learnt from reviewing the goals you’ve set?
If not, has my list helped you identify a few more things you could add to your own?