Goals Check-In: Week 2 of 9 (Spring)

[elainegrey]

Good morning world.

Oh, Dumb Senator Time, you have taken away my morning light. Pfft on you.

Edward has left the building -- well, the apartment. He's on his way down to Ms M's for more morning noms.I picked the sack of potatoes up to give him a hug before he left. Then, i picked up Greycie Lou: what a feather! She has not entirely taken to being hugged yet. Edward's like a well trained little boy who lets you hug him.

Romeow didn't get his name for nothing. He hugs back. What a sweetheart of a cat!

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I did not leave comments with all the posts yesterday where i felt the heaviness of life.

In a locked post, joedecker shares the advice he's given and feels important to follow:

When it's all overwhelming and just too much, you get through it by just doing the one thing that most needs doing now. (And then, repeat as necessary.) Avoid getting ahead of yourself.

I was thinking a great deal about this advice over the weekend as i struggle with very low motivation. Sometimes it is still hard to find that one most needed thing. Sometimes it may very well be taking care of yourself by resting, by immersing ones self in beauty or nature. Sometimes it's important to move on to another thing, even if the first thing isn't quite done.

Should i elaborate on that last sentence? For perfectionists, for people who need completion as a reward, for people who have been swamped by the coaching culture, it's not clear to me everything benefits from getting finished (particularly finished right now). This is, i think, part of my overwhelm, too, that declaring done, finished is hard -- even when i've broken things into smaller pieces! Ok, i am a perfectionist. (This may be the first time i've admitted that without caveat. Hmmm.)

Well, on that note, this seasons goals, after the cut.


0. time ------------------------

* Potential things to do:
** [2→1] Visit the Prel--- library (to get rid of books, sooner?)
** [1→?] Find a time to have brunch with St-- Mig-- (March?)
** [2→?] Time from work to attend Berkeley Statute of Anne April 9-10 ?
** [3→?] time aside for taxes and possible "war tax" protest
** [3→?] meeting retreat
** [3→?] wherecamp

I need vacation time for June, so i'm definitely saving my personal days (i'll have 2 in June)
Season begins with 11.67 d, and i'll earn 3.3. If i take the contingency time plus the whim, i'll have used up what i earned for the period.

* Potential 2.5d = recovery time around the retreat and wherecamp if i go. Prel-- library may need a wed afternoon off.
* Whim 11-12 Mar: 1.375 days

w1/9: The Prel--- library visit really ought to be top priority for decrufting and community reasons. Also, there's a loose plan to help one friend with her project and another loose plan to have dinner with a friend from my distant past. This requires a moderate investment in planning and a day's worth of energy. I'll make an effort towards getting a date at the library this week.

w2/9: i took a day and a half on a whim. I've contacted the Prel--s. I think i'll not spend the night at the Meeting retreat, but just go for Saturday. Wherecamp may be a just a Saturday attendance, too.


1. SELF ------------------------
* incorporate more movement into my life
* finish strategy
* sketch out goals for coming seasons?
* need some sort of to-do experiment practice (just the calendar thingie & yams?)
w1/9, w 2/9 no particular action...

2. F&F ------------------------
* call Grandmama once a month at least
* post things to Granddad once a month
* March: thank yous & spring/easter (Apr 4) notes
w2/9: goal for this week: thank you notes

3. COM ------------------------
* -.Lib continue to focus on completing the review of donations,
cataloging new books, establishing process
* -.over continue coordinate committees. Next fall shift to something else?
* [creek] news gathering every month
w1/9:Continued work on creek news and oversight. A little on library.
w2/9: Lots of energy in these three priorities. Dewey research for library.

4. WORK ------------------------
* write one story about my work history each month,
good or bad, unresolved, proud moment. 12 months, twelve years.
* [as time? 03, 07, 08?] books picked out by the reading group in the home office
** March http://brevity.org/misc/bestswi.html
** April (on hold at MVPL) Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day
* performance appraisals
** Feb H-C
** Apr B-B
** Apr S-E
w1/9:No action
w2/9: no action: Goal - finish B-B's late 90d, begin H-C

5. CRT ------------------------
* crochet
** mom's apron for mother's day
** Christine's gloves
* painting the 4x4 meditation painting?
* April is National Poetry month: He1icopter Stories?
w1/9: carried the gloves to the reading group last night but did not work on them
w2/9: Friday "knitting" group. Goal, gloves while watching at least one show.

6. HOME ------------------------
* Meeting donation once a month
* Plan when to give to Save the Bay, Sierra Club, other orgs with Christine
* box all CDs in CD boxes from moving (organized as can be done)
** my job is to alphabetize
* craig's list the shelves
* DECK
** clean -- how? how much?
** new plants?
* Spring decor
* Beltane decor
w1/9:Began alphabetization, maybe 1/5th? (less)
w2/9: significant alphabetzn. Deck is cleaner. Goal: weekend spring decor (Use some Easter stuff one last time then donate for Harvest Festival?) Get CDs back in shelves?


Ah! What a surprise! I feel like a dunce -- have i never really thought before of making this time of reviewing the goals a moment of setting small steps for the week???