Goals

Here are some goals I have right now, organized by accomplishment date.

At the end I discuss why goals are important to me right now.

Today:

• Get my room cleaned.
• Sort through books, socks, and CDs.

Before February 23:

• Acquire Russian visa.
• Get title transfer for Tobbit the Truck.
• Get my permit (maybe?).

Before March 11:

• Have everything moved in and settled into a place at my folk's house. Everything sorted, organized, and sifted through.
• Get rid of 500 items.
• Get my AA degree!
• Learn 10 sentences in Russian and to read Russian.
• Learn to drive Tobbit (maybe?).
• Clean out Tobbit.

Before April 17:

• Get to know the East Coast a bit better.
• Learn to navigate at least 3 new public transportation systems.
• Visit/travel through 20 states and territories.
• Ankle exercises every day.

While in Russia/Ukraine:

• Acquire conversational Russian.
• Connect to the community of Uzhgorod.
• Find someone to go for walks with.

Within the next year of living in the States:

• Learn to live in Tobbit full time.

Before I'm 27:

• Learn basic carpentry skills and maybe some more advanced.
• Attend the John C. Campbell Folks School.
• Spend time in Switzerland and Scotland.

Before I'm 32:

• Do the Pacific Crest Trail.
• Visit 15 countries (I want to say 20, but we'll keep it lower) total in my life.
• Spend at least 6 months in Kentucky with CAP.
• Visit every single state in the continental United States.
• Bike, train, and drive from West to East coast (or vice versa).

Lifelong Goal:

• Love unconditionally. 

I believe we all need a purpose and direction in our life. We need to be headed somewhere and each day we need to accomplish something - from cleaning your room to working to provide food for your family. Currently, I have no job and I'm not getting an education. I have nothing I have to do each day but I don't want to be a bump-on-a-log whittling away my log till I'm drowning in dissatisfactions.

I want to accomplish things. I want to aim and shoot and fly and land and maybe have lots of things go wrong and recover and figure things out. I want to grow.

Even without a job or school, I can still accomplish things.

Goals are great because they spell out exactly what you want to do. I am going to do THIS by THIS TIME. Booyah!

I also want to write these out to hold myself to them. I want to print these out, write them in my agenda, and accomplish them. These are things I want to do and I need to make them happen.