GOALS

I have been thinking about Goals a lot lately, why we make them? why we can keep some and break others in the matter of minutes?
Mark is reading a book right now called "Awaken the Giant Within" by Anthony Robbins. He is a man that went from being a Janitor to a Billionaire just by sitting down, setting some goals and following through with them. I hope to read this book when Mark is done, if he ever gets done. (Mark is great at starting books but terrible at finishing them). It made me think of myself and the goals I set. I don't really think I have ever set long term goals for myself. I mostly do something because it falls into place for me. Like School, Sports, Marriage, Callings, Church. Then I set my goals around the tasks I am currently involved with, Example: passing school with a 75% average, being a starter for my basketball team, try to do something kind for my husband everyday, and all the many church goals I try to set for myself.

Maybe this is why I feel like I never know where my life is going. I just kind of do whatever comes my way and hope life works out okay. So I have decided to try an experiment over the next couple of years in my life. First set some long term goals, 2nd find ways to achieve them, and 3rd always be assessing where I am at and if these goals are being achieved. I have been raking my brain the last couple of days with what would be good goals, and then I finally realized I just need to decide what I want in life, set those as goals and find out what I can do to achieve them.

A couple of the goals I have decided on are to personal to share but there are a couple of good ones I thought I would share with my friends and family.

1. Have a Family
2. Run in the Boston Marathon
3. Be Debt free by the time I am 40. (No Mortgage, No Vehicle payments, No fun toys debt, nothing not a thing)
4. Serve a Mission with my Husband in a foreign country
5. Go to a third world county with a group of Optometrist and Opticians and help people who can not afford glasses.
6. Go Visit Africa

Some of these goals are things I have dreamed of doing since I was a little girl, like visit Africa, and others are ones I have just recently thought would be very cool to do like go help people who can't afford glasses.
I think it will be interesting to see how hard I really want to do these things, because I really believe for the most part that almost anything is possible if you want it to be.
I am excited to read this book and hope it will help me understand how to make these accomplishments in life achievable.