I like this idea, so I've thought about it some and written out some goals for myself for the coming year.
Here are some of my goals for 2007:
- Learn to write every day. (Minimum: 30 mins. Ideal: 2 hours.)
- Learn to meditate (do ki breathing) every day. (Minimum: 30 mins. Ideal: 1 hour.)
- Find a good post-graduate school teaching or teaching-related job. Such a job should (ideally) fill these requirements: increased my teaching skill and experience; pay me enough to live with some comfort and pay back my student loans and other debts; take me abroad, ideally to London or nearby.
- Develop and pursue a very challenging, healthy exercise routine that helps me increase strength, flexibility, and endurance, as well as cardiovascular health. (Ideally, it will incorporate principles like those followed by the athletes at Gym Jones.)
- Improve my proficiency and fluency with French
- Produce a manuscript for my first book of poems
- Actively submit writing to journals and contests and fellowships
- Save some money
