Anyone who has watch over our web log knows how much vehemence we put on creating an one-year goal list .
Our one-year lean has without a doubtfulness been one of the most motivating and polar factors in help us build our lifespan at the farm .
In fact , it ’s almost surreal to look back at our very first leaning from 2012 . Back then , there were so many thing to do .
Like invest in a driveway , and installing a cap to cover our barn . Or even better , finishing our first chicken coop so we could have chicken .
We created that first one-year finish leaning to help us dog our ambition . And it for certain did . So much so , that we have made create a list an one-year tradition ever since .
Creating Our Annual Goals List
I mean how we make the listing is one of the reasons it has work well for us .
Each year in early December , we ride down separately and make a leaning of 24 goal . We keep them focused on the farm and what we know and want to do .
We then severally rate each in lodge of importance , 1 through 24 . Only then do we finally sit down side by side to compare .
And that is when the fun begins ! Together , we work to select the dependable 24 . We usually have quite a few similar goals , but there are always some surprises on each list .
The method has always assist us realize what is so important to each of us – and together . Once we have the terminal 24 , we then put a number to each in order of the in high spirits grandness .
It does n’t mean that they will be accomplished in order of magnitude – some but ca n’t due to circumstance or duration of time to finish . But it does emphasize which demand to be always on our brain .
We then take one final of the essence step . We localise it up on our icebox to be look at every single day . If it is out of sight , it will be out of mind .
Put it where you see it , and it motivates you to tackle your goals to hold out your dream !
Once we complete a goal , it gets cross off . And we can always see every twenty-four hour period what still needs completed . It is truly amazing how much that list has worked for us , year after year .
I think the real story is our farm and those dreams in all likelihood would never have been realized without first redact down on paper what we really want to accomplish .
Life really is a journey of small stride , all want to make big 1 . But you have to know what you want before you’re able to do it , and the Annual Goal List spells it out for us every single 24-hour interval .
So that lead to this year ’s annual goal list , and a new gadget to it all .
Our very first list back in 2012 contained 30 finish . After all , we had a caboodle of work to do to build a farm and the internet site !
Since then , we have always jell a sum of 24 goals . It has serve up us well at the farm , but it was clock time for a change as we go into a new chapter of our living .
After all , as we often say , if you are not change and produce , you are expire . And it ’s always significant to remember you only die out once – so we decidedly always want to evolve and keep changing !
This twelvemonth , we have pared down our list to just 12 base of operations goals . Are we get commonplace ? Lazy perhaps ? Not a probability !
Actually , being on the road for the last 4 months of this year long 50 state risky venture has teach us more than we could have ever guess . Most importantly , to be every day to the absolute fullest , and enjoy everything you’re able to while you’re able to .
We love spending time with our kinsperson and friends . And we love our small Ohio farm , and building and create unexampled things on it . In add-on to all of that , we also really love jaunt and encounter Modern places and meeting new people .
So paring our tilt down to 12 just makes sense to us at this point . It make us recollect about 12 major things we really desire to attain . And allows more clock time for those above - cite thing that are so important to us as well .
We be intimate writing . We certainly get it on traveling . But even more , we love enjoying the party of our family , neighbors and friends at the farm . And every unmarried one of those 12 goals on this year ’s listing will avail us do more of that in the come years.(See 5 Amazing habit To assist Simplify Life )
Life is n’t just about chase the next greatest matter . It is about working for and enjoying what you sleep with most , no matter what that may be .
Here is to creating your own yearly goal leaning . And moreover , finding what makes you happy , setting goals to do it – and doing it . Happy Living ! Jim and Mary .
Jim and Mary Competti have been writing gardening , DIY and formula articles and book for over 15 years from their 46 Akka Ohio farm . The two are frequent speakers on all things gardening and love to travel in their supererogatory time .
