Day 13: Goals

I have never been much of a goal oriented person. However, despite this I believe they are very useful. Here are few goals of mine (some short-term, long-term, realistic, and a little less realistic maybe).

- to lose 20 pounds this summer
- to get into a trauma program through Harvard where I will study in Italy for two weeks and do the rest of the schooling from home. After that I want to head up a trauma program in the refugee program I work for.
- to travel across Europe (this one might be hard to get my husband on board)
- Over the past few months I have been in an intense leadership training at our church. During this time we spent eight weeks with a mentor working on individual growth. I have learned so much about myself and one of my major goals is to target some of the things I discovered and work on these things to become closer to the woman God wants me to be.
- for Coy and I to be settled in the next year, figure out where we will be living when he finishes school, and then buy a home!
- to clean my house in the next two days from top to bottom. This includes laundry, dusting, sweeping and moping, and the bathroom. Plus a few other things which I'm sure will come up!
- to live in another country for 1-2 years doing some sort of mission work. I have a place in mind as of right now, but I am open to living anywhere, well almost anywhere. I would love to live in this small island in the Pacific called Yap. My other top choices are somewhere in Africa orThailand or Malaysia.

Here is a picture of the island of Yap.

Even though I do not practice daily the importance of goals...one of my goals is also to meet some or most of these goals. The good news about goals is that they are constantly evolving and changing.