Pamela's Blog Challenge: Your Personal Goal

Here is Pamela's challenge for this week:

As women we all spend time putting others first, worrying about them, taking care of their needs, scheduling their lives with little time left over for ourselves. For this week's challenge: What is your most important personal goal for the year? What are you doing that is just for you? How are you trying to improve yourself?

I received this assignment yesterday and it has taken me a bit of time to ponder my entry. My life objectives are far more existential and part of a process as opposed to an end goal.

To me, goals are short term and have a defined beginning, middle and end. They may have life altering impact, but they are essentially confined to a specific task. So, I suppose, for 2008, my goal is to get healthy. The first part of that effort will be to lose weight - about 50 pounds or until I feel better.

To that end, Louis - who shares my goal :) - and I have joined our local YMCA and are considering hiring a personal trainer to beat us up once or twice a week. Another thing that is changing, though hard because of our hectic family schedule, is that we will be eating at home more often. Only out once a week - Thursdays to Mixed Grill - than each time we head out to a rink. Though, tonight, Louis has the younger kids at Ice Sports and they are having dinner there. He won't. The food is terrible, so when he gets home we'll have something together.

I suppose now that I've written it down, and published it on the internet *gasp*, I'm committed!

Fingers crossed that in 2008 this goal can be realized and I can move on to the others on the list.