Comments on: Baby steps http://njlindquist.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/baby-steps/ Thoughts about life, creativity, families, relationships, God, faith, my likes and dislikes, and a whole bunch of other things Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:19:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: njlindquist http://njlindquist.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/baby-steps/#comment-18 njlindquist Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:50:00 +0000 http://njlindquist.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/baby-steps/#comment-18 Actually, Google has a calendar option I use to do just that - block in time slots. If I could only remember to use it every day! :) NJL Actually, Google has a calendar option I use to do just that - block in time slots. If I could only remember to use it every day! :)

NJL

]]> By: violet http://njlindquist.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/baby-steps/#comment-16 violet Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:28:18 +0000 http://njlindquist.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/baby-steps/#comment-16 I'm enjoying these 'goal' posts (sounds like a soccer game!) partly because a book I read over Christmas got me thinking about goals in a new way. In her book 'Simplify Your Time' Marcia Ramsland talks about setting goals and suggests some interesting ways to go about it. One is to list 15 things that would make you happy if they happened in the next five years. Then divide the next five years into quarters (twenty sections) and divvy up your wish list into those sections (of course the way she describes it sounds much more sophisticated). Of course one's plan isn't carved in stone as surely life will come along and mess with it. But wouldn't it feel good to see some of the things one really wants to achieve actually blocked into a time on a calendar, even if it is three or four years hence? I’m enjoying these ‘goal’ posts (sounds like a soccer game!) partly because a book I read over Christmas got me thinking about goals in a new way. In her book ‘Simplify Your Time’ Marcia Ramsland talks about setting goals and suggests some interesting ways to go about it. One is to list 15 things that would make you happy if they happened in the next five years. Then divide the next five years into quarters (twenty sections) and divvy up your wish list into those sections (of course the way she describes it sounds much more sophisticated).

Of course one’s plan isn’t carved in stone as surely life will come along and mess with it. But wouldn’t it feel good to see some of the things one really wants to achieve actually blocked into a time on a calendar, even if it is three or four years hence?

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