40's Goals

As most of you know, I decided last year that I would make 40 goals that had to do with 40.  It took me several weeks and a lot of thinking to come up with 40 goals.  I needed to be able to succeed but not have it too easy.  If you think about the math then that is 1600 items to do.

In the very beginning, I set up an excel spreadsheet to track my progress.  I am not good with excel so this was an accomplishment in and of itself.  (my kids thought it should be 1 of my goals)  Every Sunday morning (we had afternoon church), I would update my spread sheet.  

I knew that this would be hard and could possibly be taxing on the family.  Mark and I discussed it at length and decided that this would be a good thing for me and for the family.  

I worked really hard all year.  Some days I would spend up to 5 hours a day on my goals.  They became my life.  Everything I did had to revolve around accomplishing my goals.  My whole family supported me.  They tried to help me finish them.  I am blessed to have the support system that I did.

About a month before I was finished, I fell and sprained my ankle.  I still had 2 miles left to run, 1 exercise class left to do, and 2 swims left.  How was I going to get that done when I was on crutches and wearing a brace to keep me from moving my ankle?  I walked the last 2 miles, I did Water Zumba for the last class and swam my last 2 swims with a support brace that could get wet.  After each one, my ankle swelled up and hurt for several days.  But I got done.

I am going to make a book about each of my goals and how they changed/effected my life. 

After I finished my goals and the holidays were done, I felt kinda lost.  I really did put a lot of time into them this last year.  I have decided to get past projects done and keep doing some of the goals that I reached during my 40's year.  For example,  I took several weeks around the holidays off of attending the temple.  I picked it back up.  I will be attending the temple every Wednesday.  I will still read, and I will still practice the piano.  I am also picking a few things that I want to learn about and going to pursue that.