GOALS! (ggggggoals!!!)

Having open-heart surgery is like applying the most luxurious, perfect coat of varnish to the floor, then realising that you have painted yourself into a corner and have to wait for it to fully dry before you can leave.
Recovery is slow. But I am seeing so much progress! So on the coattails of the fact that I am safely on the other side of the whole-stupid-heart-fixing-debacle, I have decided to share a few of the goals that I want to achieve in the next year.

This is a list of some of the physically and otherwise quantifiably attainable goals I hope to achieve. I have many more personal and less secular goals, but those can be a little difficult to quantify. It would be a little hard to publicly cross off “be a more patient, calmer, kinder soul” or “find inner solace” or “seek unity with nature” without sounding like a completely leaky douche nozzle.

So why announce anything and make any of my goals public at all?
I have two main reasons:

1. I facking love making lists. I make a list – written on paper, old school style – of everything I have to do, every single day. I also use a reminder app so I can get popups on my phone to satisfy my digital nerdness. I relish the feeling of accomplishment in crossing/ticking things off as I get them done. So in the bigger picture of a full year, I personally find that making a tangible list of my annual goals gives me drive and focus. I know there isn’t any terribly solid science to prove that making list equals measurable outcomes – it turns out that the infamous 1953 Harvard/Yale Study on the power in documenting future goals never actually happened – but despite that, writing things down helps me focus on getting them achieved.

2. My second and more driving reason is good ole fashioned guilt. Gimme a G! There is no better fuel for me to gush into my brain-engine than announcing, in a public forum, the things I am planning to achieve (a public forum like say in a post on heavy traffic blog? Sure, crazy person, sure.) Plus I already showed pictures of my recently opened chest, so ain’t no holdin’ back now!
   Guilt is my Jane Fonda of motivation!

But the most important reason is that I AM STILL HERE, ticking ever onwards after another huge life event and I don’t plan on letting a year sneak by without me squeezing every last drop out of/into it.

In no particular order here are my goals for March 2015 – 2016

* to clarify I HAVE my licence, I have been driving since forever, I just need to complete the silly graduated system here in Ontario
** Jeffrey, I think I am going to have to trick you into helping me with this one! No “chopsticks” allowed.
*** There is a mini Triathlon held on Toronto island in August. I have never done one before.
**** I got myself a FitBit to help me stay on track and make sure I reach my goal.
*****I don’t have anything to prove to anyone but myself!

The question that I ask myself to be accountable to, in almost every instance of my life is;

“Did I always choose to try… ?”
I want the answer to be a resounding “Yes”