Not good enough
The first day of the second half of 2006.
Hm.
At the beginning of the year, I cheated on the “Five Goals” meme that was making the rounds, and rather than setting five goals in each category, I simply set five overall. I suppose the half-way mark is a good place to assess and reconsider, but in my case it’s also pretty depressing <:-(
* Eat better, get more exercise and (thus) lose weight.
I wasn’t doing too badly on this until about six weeks ago. I hadn’t lost much weight, but I was eating a bit healthier, and I had actually exercised a few (well, okay, about three) times. And then… I don’t know what happened, but now I’m back to no exercise, eating rubbish and all of the weight I’d lost is back.
* Take more photos.
I’ve done reasonably well on this one, I think. It does seem to happen in spurts, but having the camera as one of those things that goes with me wherever I go has definitely resulted in more photos.
* Get more positive with my parenting. I felt that I was getting close to being the kind of parent I want to be, but I seem to have drifted somehow. I don’t like it. I’m going to get back on course.
I think I’ve succeeded in this one to some extent, but not as much as I’d have liked. It’s working sometimes, but other times I don’t feel like a very effective parent at all. Time to re-read Coloroso
* Find some work that I get paid for – preferably self-employed (but what? :-/ )
No headway at all on this one. I still have no idea what I could do that would actually bring in some money.
* Have a general re-think for each of the children, in various ways.
I’ve thought about our family and education, but not really sat down and worked out what I think about (and what we should be doing with) individual children. I think Freddy needs more one-on-one time; I know Jack does. Some days it feels like I do nothing but put out fires that Jack started. I look at him when he’s asleep after such days and think what it must be like to be him right now. We really need to be more positive about how we interact with him.
Huh. Talking about doing that turned into actually doing a bit of it.
So am I going to achieve those goals in 2006? Based on my performance so far, it doesn’t look very likely. But if at first you don’t succeed…
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Oh don’t. I can’t bear to think about mine.
I’m hoping that revisiting them might give me a kick up the bum…
me either
but I’m going to return to thank you for the reminder, and compliment you on your bravery and honesty in readdressing this topic!
Well gee, ma’am, thank you for the compliment
Must go read through mine again properly and do an update, but I’ve a feeling I’ve achieved even less than I thought I would back in Jan.
You are working at it, Debs, You have written it down. You are doing something about it!
As for working from home, what were you enjoying doing when you were little? (says she that has two jobs!)
Esther
What did I enjoy doing when I was little… um, that would probably be reading, and writing, and, uh, reading.
Don’t suggest “something to do with books”, because I joined Usborne nearly a year ago, and you’ve already done a hundred times more than me about it!
No, I wouldn’t. I would go with the “writing” thing. I think you would make an excellent article writer.
Esther