Record Time Clocks on Etsy!

Today, I am proud to be launching my Etsy store!! I've been making record clocks for over 5 years & have a blast doing them. I also love to make personalized clocks. Check out Record Time Clocks on Etsy!!

Doozies

I've already posted goals 1-20, but I am waiting to post goals 21-40... mostly because I didn't want to rush through creating all my goals. Today, however, I added two more goals. They are both doozies.

#23 Become a doula or nurse midwife

#32 Get licensed to marry

Both of these play into my desire to be a person that is life-giving. To me, these goals are scary but would be amazing. Am I really prepared to take a leap like this?

speaking of dreams...

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I dream...

What if it were a reality to do the things I love every day & get paid for it? What if it were a reality to write my own future outside of the demand to work just 'some job' to make bills? What if my reality were as sweet as my dreams?

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Now is no time to attack goals...

But it is a good time for dreaming of them & making plans for them. There are a lot of things I can just put on my list-- things that are easy to cross off or things that would be interesting to tell a story about later. But that's not the point. The point of making a list like this is to take who I am & making a life about that. You feeling me?

I was thinking about my goals as a cook. It doesn't seem helpful to me to just know how to cook a bunch of stuff or have a lot of random ethnic foods I've made from scratch. My goal for cooking is that I want cooking to be organic, part of who I am. I want to know how to make breads off the top of my head and to take what I see in my cupboards and make something creative out of it. I want to be covered in flour and cook from the heart. Not sure what this means for a goal, but I'm developing.

I am hoping to attack this goal this summer. After all, i will need a physical fitness goal to take back ownership of my body once this baby girl is born! Maybe on the way to or fro, I'll also get to take the Grand Canyon. Now that would be an awesome trip!!

Some of my goals are unspecific for a reason. I need to refine them and figure out exactly what I mean/ want.

I've started to read "Total Money Makeover" by Dave Ramsey. This will help me be empowered to attack a few of my goals-- to pay off car & to become debt free (student loans STINK!). I heard Dave rocks and I am excited about the book.

Time to cease the day!! Until later.

Goal 11 of 40- "Get Published"

It's long been one of my goals to get some of my writing published and today was the day! Our church does something really cool called "Gone for Good." Almost every month, we join a few others churches leaving our church buildings to serve the community. With Gone for Good coming up, I decided to do a user-submitted story to bakersfield.com. They liked it and asked me to write a story for the paper. YEA! I did some temp. work at the Californian last Spring as a Research Assistant for Kern Life magazine. My work was published in this magazine, but most of the work was just updates and research. This is my first article published real-deal true blue me!

Goals 1-20 (of 40)

If you are a friend or family member of mine, I want to invite you to join me in my 40x40 adventure. Pick a goal & do it with me! Many of these are memory-makes, life-builders and relationship-boosters... so it makes it all the more fun to do them in community! Join me!

1. Buy a motorcycle

2. MAKE A DAY DOING BOTH SURFING & SNOWBOARDING: Start early in the morning on the coast with some surfing. End it around lunch time & drive a few hours to the mountains for some boarding! Example.

3. Appear on a game show

4. Pay off car!

5. Become a better American: read a good book on American history & actually try to remember some of it.

6. Learn smalltalk (I’m open to suggestions!)

7. Learn to ride a unicycle (Possibly one of the coolest things a person can do!)

8. SWIM AT THE EDGE OF VICTORIA FALLS: You can actually swim at the edge of Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe in what’s called Devil’s Pool, a natural rock pool at the very top of the falls with a height of about 100 meters.

9. Hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon

10. Learn stickshift

11. Get something published (The Californian Newspaper, Saturday March 21 2009, Faith Section, “Living the Faith”)

12. Learn to love without bias (Is this possible?)

13. Finish my album

14. Live on the road for a year traveling America

15. WINDOM, SUNLIGHT, EOLUS – CHICAGO BASIN APPROACH Backpacking TRIP: Climbing & trekking 3 14ers in one trip in one of the most beautiful parts of the country!

16. Learn to wakeboard

17. Fly in a hot air balloon

18. Pay off student loans & become debt-free!

19. Get involved in justice in a way that really makes a dent!

20. Go with Matt to Hawaii

Why goals?

I'm a big fan of living life on purpose. I think if there's something you wanna do, you should make the effort to make it happen. Really, we only have one life to live.It also helps me to evaluate who I am and what I want to do with who I am. There is a lot of value in refining who you are-- keeping the growing process alive!

Before I turned 25, I made a list of 25 things to do. BUT, I only gave myself 1 1/2 years to complete my goals. I was able to get most of them done. In order to even accomplish the goals, they had to be pretty small (though there were a couple bigger ones in there including trying out for American Idol). If you rush, the results aren't good; they're just results.

I am 2 1/2 years to my 30th birthday, so I thought I would do the same for that big birthday. But as I was thinking, I decided I would expand my goals to 40 things to do before I turned 40. This way, I have more time and I am able to do some bigger goals. This blog will document my goal journey.

I suppose this is a bucket list of sorts. But it's more of a 'before i die...' it's more of a 'i want to live!'

Stay tuned for a listing of the goals.