Shirley,

All your goals are really awesome! 🙂 I very much enjoyed reading your list. Very inspiring!

“whenever i feel strained i think i will do yoga, workout and meditate.”

That is awesome Shirley! As I need to practice more Bikram Yoga, now that my studio has finished its recent re-modeling.

I want to work on learning more about my digestion issues and thyroid.

Learn new recipes on how to cook raw foods. This recipe in particular is on my goal list 🙂 https://youtu.be/ST5UFRyOgl8

For my love and I to talk more often about strengthening our relationship (in person).

Take more walks in the park and explore nature up north in flagstaff & Prescott. I found a few beautiful places already but there’s so many other places up north I haven’t seen or gotten to explore yet.

Be careful and mindful of my daily sugar intake.

Travel somewhere new at least once a year.

Look at my vision board every morning.

Go and support my local farmers market when I am able to.

Have a small wedding somewhere beautiful in the future when the time is right for both me and my future wife.

Continue to be loving, compassionate and understanding.

To listen/pay attention to my tummy and my digestion a little more closely than usual.

Make sure I’m getting 7-8 hours a sleep a night.

Meditate.

I found this article today https://tinybuddha.com/blog/how-i-lost-30-pounds-by-meditating-and-all-the-things-i-gained/ and saw your post from years ago.  I would also like to try what the author says to lose weight.  Essentially she used meditation to quiet her mind so that she can hear the thoughts that would improve her life and she acted on it.  Within some time of daily meditation, she was able to lose 30 lbs.  I have 80 lbs I would like to lose.

So I would meditate in the morning and follow up with a meditation in the evening and hopefully experience what she mentions and desire to meditate at night.  She used an interesting analogy of it being like learning how to ride a bike.

I’ve lost weight before by not thinking too much and just cutting out sugar and cooking my meals and drinking smoothies.  My monk friend says to walk every day and the weight will come off.

This is a dream goal I have and I would like to be accountable for progressing every day by making the best choices for me.

My boyfriend leaves for work early in the morning so I figured I will also leave early to get to the regional park and put in my daily walks that way because the gate is hard to open.

I also would like to experience the act of drinking more water because I don’t drink enough.

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I also listen to the clutter fairy on youtube and I have a lot of things in my bedroom and garage that need to be sorted and disposed of.  I would like to accomplish that this month.  The best way to think of doing it is to do a box a day and put a time limit on it.  That was the clutter fairy’s latest youtube video was about figuring out how much time it will actually take to do it.

🙂 Thank you for this forum.

Dear faaiza:

I know how it feels to be scared, too scared to take any action, watching time passing you by. I too had dreams of acting. I used to fantasize (when I was a teenager) about being an internationally famous movie star, or a dancer, performing for audiences of millions all over the world. Fast forward, at 18, I applied to a famous acting school and was rejected. I attended some acting classes elsewhere, and in my 20s, I applied to one (only one) voice acting job that was published in a newspaper.. and didn’t get the job. Not an impressive acting career, is it?

Back to my fantasies, those daydreams, they were very enjoyable. It was oh, so pleasurable to see (in my mind’s eye) many thousands of people clapping their hands and cheering for me. In real-life, I was the loneliest teenager in the world, no one cheered for me, no one even knew what I was thinking or feeling. No one asked.

Do you relate to this experience?

anita