Setting goals, and stuff

Today is the first day of fall, and I really don't know how that happened... at all. Didn't we just celebrate the New Year, like, yesterday?

Okay, so I'm a terrible blogger and started this post yesterday but ran out of time before I could finish it... so I'm posting it today, oops.

Justin and I have been doing a lot of talking and planning our future (and whatnot) the past few weeks and we've got some big changes happening soon... which I'm sure I'll share on the blog in a week or two. But during a part of all of these conversations, Justin has suggested that we focus on four of the main aspects of our lives:

• Our relationship
• Our finances
• Our jobs
• Our health

We have decided that we are going to make 1 month, 3 month, 6 month, and 12 month goals for each of these 4 areas of our lives. We're not going to share them with each other (or on the blog) until we've reached the end of that period, and then we'll open up the goals, read them to each other, see what we've accomplished and what we haven't, and continue to work towards them and better ourselves in the next 'period'.

It may sound weird/lame/whatever to some people, but I've truly found the most success when I write down my goals and then push myself to actively work towards them. So tonight, we will each sit down and put our goals into the different envelopes and seal them up (kind of like a time capsule) and open them when the time is right. So now I need to just do the super easy task of figuring out where I see myself at work, in health, financially, and in my relationship with Justin in the next month, three months, six months, or year.

J has suggested blogging (or vlogging) about our progress once we open the envelopes and share our goals with each other, so I think that will most likely happen. Right now we're planning on opening the envelops on Oct 25, Dec 25, March 25, and Sept 25.

...... so, let the thinking/planning process begins.