There is this thing, when you have too many goals, they find that you kind of shut down and can't really get to any of them. They recommend that you have three or four primary goals as that is all you can really focus on at any given time. This is only recent knowledge. I grew up under the Tony Robbins "If one's good, 20 is better" model. Make a goal for every area of your life, every point, every portion. Basically, research shows this just drives you crazy and tries to make you a perfectionist.

Still, there are a lot of goals that I still kind of like hanging on to. So here they are.

A List of Things I Wish I Could Do

Volunteer
Surf
Learn Salsa (swing, country line, or blues)
Fall In Love
Get Married
Have Kids
Be an Au Pair in one of the Scandanavian countries for a year.
Get my PhD/masters in Social Work
Take care of my OWN dog
Have a house of my own
Publish my novel(s)
Cook

Doing
volunteer
cook

In Planning
Publish novels
PhD/masters

Long term
Have a house of my own

Outside of my control
Fall in Love
Get Married

The rest, while important... are a little hard to plan for. After all, I could go to school right away, get an apartment and take care of my dog, but then I couldn't be an Au Pair. If I was an Au Pair, then I would push back my 'school' thing for another year, another year where people wonder, "What the hell have you been doing with your life". "Living a little" seems a little hallow of an excuse. Not only that, but what if I miss my window? My dog is only going to be ALIVE for so long, so how many more years do I want to DITCH her, just so that I can... I don't know, have stories to tell my grankids? Make lifelong friendships? See the world? Those... are good things, too. Oh hell, I don't know.

What do YOU think?

I think society does a great job of making risk-taking look foolhardy. Those who play it safe are understood; those who take risks are revered.
» Unicornasaurus on 2011-03-15 01:09:29

The "au pair" bit of your list tripped me up a bit. What's the appeal? Why a Scandinavian country specifically?

I hate it when people ask what you've been doing with your life. It seems like there's only the people who have done nothing or the people who have done everything. If there's a middle ground, it is certainly not acknowledged. I suppose there's no possible way to multitask with any of these, huh?
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