about 14 years ago, i wrote a list of goals. i just came across it and thought i’d look at what i have achieved.
this feels pretty vulnerable, telling the world about my personal goals. i guess doing something vulnerable like that is part of the goal “really leaving my comfort zone”
some of the goals i have achieved to a very large degree, others some, with others i haven’t gotten very far. there’s one to which i don’t really feel connected anymore, which was to “spend at least a year in a monastery”. (however, my spiritual life has intensified in many different ways since 1992, so maybe i’ve achieved that goal in other ways).
so here we go:
achieved to a large degree
- talk and listen to lots of interesting people
- write lots
- exercise more
- have a lifetime relationship with my then boyfriend (now my husband)
- eat more nutritiously
- act in a more health conscious way
- challenge my mind
achieved some / a little
- be loving
- meditate lots
- learn more about healing
- have intermediate passions (like crafts, gardening, etc.)
- spend lots of time with my friends
- be comfortable with being disciplined
- grow in my relationship with my children
- learn and do totally new things
- really leave my comfort zone as often as possible (not just play around the edges)
- befriend or at least get to know my shadow side
- listen to lots of really good music
- look at/be with great works of art
not much change / did not achieve at all
- live much more passionately
- travel
- have a mentor/teacher
- make music and/or sing without being embarrassed
- spend time with nature
isabella mori
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