This list is ever growing as I grow and discover new goal and old desires. I hope my own list inspires you to write your own, dream big, and defy gravity!
1. Finish all my current manuscripts (juvenile adventure, suspense, cozy)
2. Be published in fiction. BURIED DECEPTION COMING Jan 2012 from Barbour Keep updated on the publishing progress HERE!
A girl can dream, can’t she?
3. Find an agent Chip MacGregor
4. Attend a writers conference, each year, Oct. ’07, Sept 08,Sept 09, May ’10, August ’10
5. Go on a real vacation without the kids Midlife Road Trip 2010
6. Go to Disney World with the kid May 2007
7. Take a History Tour up the East Coast again
8. Go to Sea World with family March 2010
9. Move into a new home (another one of those uncontrollables) Sept. 08
10. Lose 20 lbs. May-Aug 2010
11. Exercise consistently 5 times a week
12 . Eat more fruits and vegetables as a life style change (Thanks to mom living with me and cooking veggies!)
13. Go on a vacation with my girl friends (for my 40th birthday in 2008?) Okay, my 41st! Instead I went to visit them! May 2010 See posts on MY MIDLIFE ROAD TRIP!
14. Establish a consistent devotion time 6:15 am from Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 ALMOST every day as consistent as it’ll probably get
15. Take Writer…Interrupted to the next level with forums and possible a retreat
16. Delegate more on Writer…Interrupted so I can do less
17. Establish a Jr. high youth ministry gathering in my new home. (well, no ministry, but there always seem to be a jr high or high school gathered in our house. Does that count? 2012)
18. Learn to communicate to my kids without yelling, 2012 seeing REAL progress
19. Take my vitamins consistently
20. Learn to listen to my kids better and tell them to be quiet nicely if I can’t listen. 2012 seeing REAL progress
21. Unlearn my dysfunctional parenting habits. 2012 seeing REAL progress
22. Go out more with friends
23. Get caught up in my Birthday Album
24. Caught up in my kids’ drama albums
25. Finish all my albums that only need a couple of pages of journaling to complete
26. Caught up in extended family album
27. Learn to slow down and smell the roses
28. Declutter my home like I was moving! (in process and I did move!)
29. Own an ipod/Mp3 player
30. Go on a cruise
31. Learn to ball room dance in progress Nov 2010- present
32. Be in a play with my kids Wizard of Oz 2009, Jungle Book 2010
33. Donate my hair to a charity cut it with intentions of donating, but it was highlighted
34. Take Writer…Interrupted to next level with forums! (Ning)
35. Write a couple of ebooks
36. Make some real money on my website/blogs
37. Live in Itlay
38. Flash Mob
39. Go on a cross country bike trip…distance negotiable!
40. Take ballroom dance lessons August 2011(added after the fact)
41. Be proficient in East Coast swing 2012
42. Learn Lindy Hop (working on it 2012)
43. Go to a Lindy Hop/Swing conference in 2012
