January 2006 – Some Thoughts
It’s the first day of February, 2006. I’m finally over (knock on wood) the bout of flu (or whatever the hell it was) that knocked me out of the last 3 days of January. I wanted to capture some thoughts about how January went before posting my February “things I will complete” list.
It’s nice to have the objective record of what I did and did not accomplish in January. It shows that I am slowly but surely working towards my stated goals for 2006. As I look back on January I realize that my focus was almost entirely on the “create a nurturing home environment” part of my 2006 goals. There was no conscious decision to focus on the home stuff. At some point I suppose I’ll have to determine if focusing first on the home stuff was me intuitively realizing that I must have a nurturing home environment if I am to make all these other things happen… or if I was just putting off the inevitable work on my book, acting, music, etc. out of fear. We’ll see how that shakes out.
One thing that I did notice as I was creating my goals was that at times I wasn’t specific enough about the goal. There were times when I listed a large goal like “sell the bike” when what I really needed was the “next action” (fill the tires on the bike, clean it up for sale, take pictures…). I’ll try to work with that in my February goals by breaking things down into parts more.
I also think that I underestimated the whole “paint the apartment” thing. Had I thought it through a bit more I might have realized that if I wanted it done right I’d have to do it myself, which would necessarily take more time than having the super et al do it. I started the process later in the month and then things kinda went to hell. Lesson learned, I hope. February is 4 days shorter than January so I’m not going to waste any time in getting started on these things.
One thing I want to be aware of in February is how to better balance my work on my home with work on my music, acting, teaching, etc. I felt like the balance was way off in January. Something to think about. Overall though, I like the process. I like being able to point to my blog and say “I did this”. It’s a good feeling.