GOALS AND BALANCE

ON GOALS AND BALANCE

There I was, cruisng along, trying to get myself under control. Why I felt the need to mess that up, I'll never know!

There as been no secret about my goals. I want to retire and I want to do it quickly. I can retire in less than seven years and have a steady check for the rest of my life. What idiot would walk away from that is beyond me. So I guess my new more twisted goal of the same original goal is to be debt free by the time I reach 25 years of service. Then the next five years are profit. YEAH RIGHT!!! Well let me tell you that I intend to do just that. So I need to get used to it and I need to focus. I don't like where I am at right now.

So I have refined my goals. I will continue with my planned craft shows. I will quit the Outreach Committee and I may even quit the Etsy Team Colulmbus. I want to focus, though, on my life, my family and my goals. I want to persue my two blogs and my business on Etsy.com.

I can't retire because I have to be fifty-five in order to do so. If I quit I have to wait until I am sixty to collect my retirement. Or I can retire at age fifty-eight with thirty years service and I can go quietly. It's not really hard to make the choice. Go ahead and fucking say it, do the six years and ten months and shut the hell up!

I love beads. I guess the best thing for me to do is play with my beads. Enjoy making some beautiful jewelry. Enjoy selling some fantastic creations. No matter what the hell else you do though, remember to enjoy it.

So when you feel the need to reset your goals it is probably because your goals are out of balance. Mine were out of balance and as I look around my house, I have more confirmation than you could ever know! You won't be invited over for a while....until I can get my life, which includes my house, back into balance.

Balance is balance. If you can look back at the last three or four months of your life and see it calmly, you are probably in balance with your life. My last four months look like huge waves in the ocean! I need some calmness and regularity. I need some balance. I will be working toward that goal all Summer and I will re-measure at the end of September.

So my goals are set and I plan to see them achieved by the end of September.

Just two blogs, one etsy shop and a regular life. Just two mentors - http://www.ittybiz.com/ and http://www.learntobeyourownva.com/ and things will be good!