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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Memories...the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Memories are very important to me, as they probably are to you.
My good memories give me hope and buoy my spirits when required.
My bad memories remind me to do a better job as a human than others or that life is fragile and fleeting.
My ugly memories point me to my Saviour; my need for His saving grace and His wisdom and strength when I am scared or confused or hesitant at continuing this journey.
A combination of all 3 make me who I am today, and I'm kinda liking this Trish.
Go baby go!
=Trishty
P.S. To preserve your memories for the coming generations remember to save a CD of your greatest hits to share with others and my fave--tactile paper scrapbooks for young and old to ooh and ahh over.  Do you remember when you looked thru your 1st album?  Cool, huh?  So get to it!
Anyone in the Valley willing to meet at my East Mesa home can join me monthly in saving those memories for tomorrow.  Email me palger@cox.net.  No charge, just good times!

Monday, January 3, 2011

Goals...nasty or necessary?

My new quote for the week:  
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them. —Jim Rohn
Love that.  I'm a little biased when it comes to goal setting.  I love knowing what is happening today, tomorrow, and beyond.  Or at least the rough draft.  Life interferes all of the time and I have allowed for a margin of change at all times, by  the way love that book "Margin"--changed my outlook drastically years ago.  Now there have been seasons where my plans have been altered or waylaid and there have been seasons where I can only set goals for today--kinda there now.  
But that doesn't change my deep-seated need to set goals, make an outline, write lists, etc...
I do love a new year, a new month, a new week; it gives me a clean slate to try again.
See!  There is that internal optimist that I never acknowledged in the past.  Goals give me hope!  Hope is good.  Hope makes me happy.  Hope gives me a reason to get out of bed, exercise, take a shower, make myself presentable, and willing to meet my day head on.  Hey I like that...my day.  
So I did spend my New year's Eve day slogging my way thru a list of goals even while I suffered the last cold/flu of 2010.  It gave me something to hope for.  I felt in charge of my life again.
For years I have broken my list into categories.  Usually self, family, spiritual, financial, etc... This year I modified it to the most important right now, but am reviewing the process a little closer to allow for changes.  Also, Dave Ramsey recommended a book by Marcus Buckingham "Go Put Your Strengths to Work" and I noticed that he also wrote a book titled "Find Your Strongest Life" a book about what successful women do differently.  So I will be using my new Christmas B&N giftcard to download my 1st ebook onto my new Pandigital Novel...thank you Bob.  What a great husband!  He did  a lot of research to find the best ereader for me.  I do hope the content of this book will help me focus my goals where I wish to be headed.  When I am done I can 'loan' it to someone else with an ereader.  Towanda!!
One of my small goals was to make a card everyday and to mail them all thruout the year.  I have successfully finished one each day so far and hope to load pics of them to my website...helps to keep me accountable.
Yes, this blog title was misleading...of course goals are necessary--to me!!
Ciao for now,
=Trishtical