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The Goal List

Work:

  • Get a job!
    • Process: Send out 10 job applications per week using tailored resumes and cover letters for each.
  • Do a personal project that involves React and actual deployment
    • Process: Work on this for an hour each day.
    • Step 1: Brainstorm idea of something to work on.

House Projects:

  • Create compost pile
  • Plant hazelnuts/raspberries/grapes
  • Set up container garden in spring
    • Get some indoor citrus trees3
  • Peonies!
  • TACKLE THE BASEMENT.
    • Step 1: Find inspiration for art supply storage cabinet area.

Family:

  • Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad trip
  • Farmer’s Market Saturdays
  • Friday night game nights/Sunday night movies?
  • Cedar Point trip (maybe overnight at resort, water park one day, park second day)
  • Fall farm visit
  • Get the kids in swimming
  • Get the kids in piano
  • Get the kids in strings

Health/Fitness:

  • Keep going with CGX
  • Get down to 135 lbs one way or another
    • Process: Go back to structured meals, 2 cups of beans per day, cut down on sugar. 

Creativity:

  • Start using DSLR exclusively for photos, get into rhythm of uploading
    • Process: Schedule 30-minute weekly session for processing photos.
  • Listen to 100 albums (50 new/50 re-listens)
    • Process: Listen to 1 album/day, and don’t be stressed if you skip a day or three each week.
  • Write a full novel
    • Process: 1 month Story Graph planning, 3 months drafting, 3 months editing.
  • Get an agent
    • Process: Send out 1 tailored submission each week after editing is underway.
  • Blog every day

Adventures & Fun:

  • 6 mini-adventures
  • 24 new geocaches

Habits/Rhythms/Routines:

  • 4 habits (1/quarter)
  • Freezer rhythm
  • Seasonal meal plan rhythm
  • Lunchbox rhythm
  • Weekly system planning

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I’m Emily. Welcome to my newest internet hidey-hole. Here you’ll find musings on parenthood and attempts at organizing every aspect of my life. Feel free to take a look around, stay a while…or just jump over to something far more interesting than whatever it is I’ve got going on.

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