Halfway there.

July 01st, 2008

If you can believe it, 2008 is already halfway over. A good time to reflect on how far we’ve come.

Are you halfway to your goals for 2008?

Is your organization halfway to where it should be for this year?

What do you hope the rest of this year holds for you?

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On a personal note, today is also my mother’s birthday. Happy birthday, Mom!

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(Photo by McGun.)

Category: The working life

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3 Comments so far

Lauren Vargas July 1st, 2008 9:28 am

Wow! Halfway? I was quite simple with my goals this year: Make serious life changes for the better. Indeed, I have made some serious changes. As of 11 July, I will be a single woman once again…and taking on the role of a single mom. It has been a tough road, but for the first time (in a long time) I feel free…not alone. This is an awesome feeling…I am still adjusting.

I am wiping the slate clean for the last half of the year and continuing the life changes. It is time for me to move on in my career and explore new depths of learning. Also, I am traveling more in the next couple of months than I have in the past five years! I am psyched! I am learning to speak Portuguese before traveling to Brazil in September and I am contemplating Paris over the New Year. It has been a long time since I have felt so alive.

Heather July 1st, 2008 10:06 am

Am I any closer to where I actually want to be? Maybe, maybe not. I’m one more month’s worth of bills paid closer to paying off debt. I have ideas, canvases, sculptures, art projects all in some form of development. I have hundreds of pages full of short stories that need a lot of encouragement if they’re ever going to grow up to be a novel.

My year goals are to be two less credit cards in debt, a few steps closer to buying and building an actual workshop, a few steps nearer to getting something longer than 1,500 words published, and to have finally figured out the design for a large scale project that needs lots of time and space.

Thank you, Tim, for asking these questions… I kinda needed this ‘re-think’ today.

Tim Walker July 1st, 2008 12:05 pm

Wow, Lauren and Heather — thanks for sharing this.

I ask questions like these for a couple of reasons:

1. Because I know so many of us (myself very much included) get caught up in the day-to-day, such that we lose sight of bigger priorities.

2. Because **I** want to be inspired by stories like yours!

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