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Wednesday, June 1, 2005

Goals. I do have them.

The other day someone (whose name I won’t mention because you’re probably tired of hearing me talk about it) asked me what my goals were for the coming months. The answer I gave was less than satisfactory. It sounded something like this:

“Well, uhhhhh. I don’t know. Ummmm. Gosh. That’s tough.”

I felt ashamed of my lack of articulation, like I was a slacker kid with no ambitions or thoughts beyond what I’m going to wear tomorrow. The thing is that I do indeed have goals, but I don’t line them up with bullet points and charts for easy review.

At least until now.

Here are some current goals:

• Become more active in my community. Right now I’m accomplishing that through involvement in a committee for a Human Rights Campaign fund-raiser.
• Read more, especially good newspapers.
• Continue to develop a network of friends I love. Easier said than done when you’re an introvert like me who likes to spend lots of time alone.
• Maintain already established relationships, regardless of geography. This blog is a sad attempt to partially accomplish that.
• Don’t date anyone just for the sake of dating, even if I am lonely at times. After this past weekend (which I promise I’m not mentioning), the standards are high and the usual won’t do anymore.
• Save money. I’m bad at that.
• Start making plans to visit another continent. I’ve been on this one for far too long and it’s making me claustrophobic.
• Work hard enough to start to position myself as an expert in my field, but not so hard that that’s all I do.
• Find ways to develop my creative side and figure out what I want to do with that and how to make it productive.
• Take care of my body… In every way.
• Enjoy life.

Posted by Aaron on June 1, 2005 6:36 PM