Setting Lifetime Goals

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Step 1: Consider What I Want To Do In My Lifetime

In this exercise, I brainstormed ideas of what I want to achieve in my life in some key categories.  Later, I'll set 5-year goals, then 1-year, 6-month, and 1-month plans; create a daily to-do list, and review/adjust.

Career

• Intellectually stimulating/challenging
• Travel
• 5-6 hours/day inside
• Make at least $40K until age 55
• Social justice or public good (working class focus)
• Writing/books
• Involve people ages 25-50
• NO SECRETARIAL WORK

Financial

• Take care of end of life needs (me/Rick)
• Live comfortably
• Travel
• See kids/parents/siblings/family regularly
• Help kids, if needed

Education

• Hone research/writing skills
• Study working class issues/protest movements
• Finish Associate's degree
• Decide whether to pursue Bachelor's degree (probably not)
• UnCollege/Self-Learning

Family

• Embrace Empty Nest!
• Stay connected with kids
• Visit immediate and extended family regularly
• Fishing trip with the Sagers!
• Have close relationships with kids/grandkids/nieces/nephews
• Take care of Mom & Dad, if needed

Artistic

• Write more (sometimes for money)
• Attend writer's retreat
• Meditation/alone time
• Make space for creativity
• Take more pictures
• Write more

Attitude

• Be less critical
• Be more patient (especially with Rick)
• Get over social anxiety
• Make friends
• Be more emotionally giving
• Stay true to my own needs
• Value my own feelings and don't feel guilty about it
• Be more giving/supportive

Physical

• Stay physically fit
• Do a century or half-century bike ride
• Go on a bike tour to someplace awesome (west coast, southwest US, overseas)
• Skydive again
• Hike/walk regularly (beaches/mountains)
• Grow food, flowers, and herbs

Pleasure

• Spend quality time with Rick
• Make space for silence
• Drink good wine
• Cook meals for/with family and friends
• Travel
• Fish
• Read regularly
• Own a few cats and dogs
• Visit oceans, hot springs, lakes, and ponds as often as possible - basically have access to water at all times
• Live outside as much as possible

Public Service

• Food kitchens and/or community gardens
• Literacy
• Social justice
• Working class and/or poor
• Girls/women
• Guerrilla activism or something exciting
• Random acts of kindness

Location

• West
• Water
• Some sunshine
• Great growing location/long growing season
• Wine
• Rural (but within 10 miles of a small city with public transportation or bike-friendly routes)
• Doesn't normally go below freezing
• Fresh seafood nearby
• Good fishing nearby
• Live music or other fun scene
• Progressive