Thursday, April 19, 2007

Gotta Get Goals Challenge

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. ~ Les Brown

Marjie recently tagged me on her blog for this great meme including goals. Being an avid list maker, I thought this would be no problem for me, but here I am pondering what goals to actually put down. It's a meme taking over the blogosphere, and the instructions are to hotlink the origin, so I present you the blog where it all began~ Gotta Get Goals.

The quest is to list 5-10 goals with equal explanations. That's the purpose. Okay, enough chitchat---let's go.
  1. Become the best version of me. I want to grow into the best person that I can be. I want to share my gifts with the world, fulfill my purpose on this earth and leave something for future generations. I want my daughter to respect me and want to learn from me the way I look up to my mother. I want to make less mistakes, learn from the past, and grow into a wonderful person. I want to become the one and only, unique woman that God intended for me to be.
  2. Vixen, Wife & Mother. I never thought I had a maternal or domestic bone in my body, but the last year has proven to me that I do have great stores of love that I am fully capable of sharing. I'm not as selfish as I used to be/thought I was, and actually more responsible. I want to maintain a lovely household with good energy and wonderful children. I want to be a fabulous wife, one that my hubby is proud of, one that epitomizes the virtues of character. I want to surpass the expectations of what 'love' is and further develop a full and deeper connection with my man. I want our relationship to be one that keeps on sizzling and growing day after day, year after year.
  3. Vixen, Author. To be more specific, a New York Times Bestselling author. I want to get published and be one of the voices of our generation. I want the words to flow as fluidly as they do in my head unto paper and for someone to see my work and go...oh yeah, she's really helped me see this differently. I want to write something that brings about some sort of change in people's lives.
  4. Vixen, World Traveller. I'm sure this is on most peoples list, but I'm actually going to do it. The world and all it's cultures is fascinating to me and my ideal life would be to travel all over the world and write my memoirs. I want to become an expert expat and live outside of my country of origin/naturalization. I want to settle for a few years here and there, exploring different parts of the world from Australia to Asia to the Fuji Isles...I want to see it all.
  5. Vixen, Cunning Linguist. I want to be quinti-lingual or more. In each country I travel to, I want to be able to speak and understand the national language. Thankfully the Rosetta Stone thing will help out alot.
  6. Vixen, Millionaire. I want to make enough money doing what I love, and what I do well that I can eventually invest and make my money start to work for me. That way I can have the money, energy and time to focus on more important things, like the different foundations that I plan to start/help run, raising money for sickle cell research and becoming a UN Ambassador.
  7. Vixen, Octogenarian. I want to live. I want to live far longer than the average mortality rate of people with sickle cell . I want to celebrate my 50th birthday, and see my 60th as well. I want to watch my children/grand kids grow up. I want to be one of those super cool old ladies that life is still peachy sipping on margaritas at 85. I want to live.
Okay, those are the top 7 things. Now...here's the fun part, I get to tag five people to do this. I think I'll just tag the last few people that commented on my blog. Even if I don't tag you, please do it anyway if you have a moment, it's a great way to view your future success.

Kafo, Randomly Sane, Tutsy, Virginia, Lady Roslyn

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9 comments:

Tutsy said...

Think i might need to give this some "serious" thought. Funny i can't think of any goals i want accomplished. Don't tell me, i'm screwed up in the head...lol. Will get to work on it A.S.A.P....Oh! by the way, i'm so feeling that "wife and mother" goal of yours, its quite fulfilling

RandomlySane said...

lol - nice...i have to run out right now, but i'll work on it as soon as i get back!

btw, your goals almost mirror mine exactly...!

Virginia Belle said...

LOL at "cunning linguist" ;)

i will have to ponder this and post it later today....thanks for the tag!

Adventures In Waitressing said...

Ahhh ok I see... was wondering what being tagged meant.. I swear I will stop coloring my hair so I can remember things better. LOL Ok I have to work a double today. Which means i have to go back to work in less then an hour. I will put some serious thought into my list.

Anonymous said...

hi...what is the site address of the calorie tracker you use? thanks.

Vixen said...

Hey ladies...of course, take all the time you need.

Tutsy, I never thought it would be. But now, it's a perfect fit. I guess I grew up.

RS, Cool, I can't wait to see your list!

VB, Ponder away.

AIW, it's your first official tag...blog games rock!

Anon, it's www.sparkpeople.com. It's totally free.

Melanoma in B&W said...

Dear Vixen,

I am contacting you regarding a blog survey I am conducting. I am a Ph.D. candidate in Mass Communication at Penn State and my dissertation project consists of a survey that looks at women bloggers’ perceived motivations for and effects of their blogging.

I am sending the survey to a number of bloggers, and I would like to invite you to participate in it as well. Participation should take approximately 15 minutes of your time. I would appreciate it tremendously if you would be willing to take the survey. If you decide to do so, please follow the link below:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/cds205/blog/signin.htm

I would be very happy to share the findings of my study with you once it is completed!

If you have any questions or comments, please don’t hesitate to contact me!

Thank you in advance,

Carmen

Anonymous said...

thanks!

Anonymous said...

great inspiring goals vixen!
and as strong as you are for building the "bad girl" community, i think you won't have any troubles accomplishing them. how i'd love, most specially, to see you accomplish goal number 3. I'm sure your best-selling books will be on every bad girls' bookshelves!

all the best! **hugz**