Re-Visiting my 2014 Goals in Days of My Destiny

Learn the art of gratefulness:

Have I done this? Well, it's not something that happens overnight. It's certainly a work in progress. Sometimes I want nothing to do with gratefulness, but most of the time it is exactly what keeps things in perspective. I think I've always used gratefulness to an extent but I'd like it to become such a part of me that I don't even realise I'm "doing" gratefulness anymore. This may take years, and I am okay with that.

Learn how to tap dance:

I've put on my tap dancing DVD just once. I think that becoming President of that committee really didn't help as it took up SO MUCH of my time. I don't think I fully realised just how much of my time it took up until I quit. Thankfully there are still 6 months left in the year and I can now dedicate myself to being more in control of my life and enjoying it a whole lot more because of it. It comes without saying that this will include tap dancing :)

Work towards a minimum of 20 push-ups by June (currently at 10,11):

I completely slacked off in this department. I can now do 4 push-ups. My shoulder is stuffed after sleeping all squished up most nights in the last 3 weeks or so, therefore push-ups are probably a no-no for now. Not only this, but doing push-ups isn't such a priority in my life anymore. I think I wanted to get to 20 for a challenge. I may re-visit this idea sometime, but it's not on the top of my list anymore. Besides, June ends in 3 days and there's no way I'll get to 20 push-ups by then!

Re-visit learning French:

This is something else I've forgotten about. French is one of those things... it's a language I was always in love with growing up and I think I will always have some kind of interest in it. Perhaps I should focus on the tap dancing first though.

Finish TA course by April:

April came and went and my course was left unfinished. I had set myself the goal of finishing by April just for fun. I have until August to finish my course but I didn't want to leave it until August.... and then I went and became President of that committee. As mentioned, it took up so much of my time that pretty much everything else was left by the wayside... until now. I have one assignment and one test to go and then I'm done. I'm okay with finishing by August.

Go on a solo photography road trip:

Yet to happen, WILL happen.

Stay in proper touch with the friends that count:

I think that I could've done this in a much better way than I have in the first half of the year. The friends that count are really just T. And Helen. Staying in touch with Helen is easy enough as I can easily hang out at her house and we see each other by default anyway. As for T, I spent a weekend with her for her birthday, which was lovely. I haven't really been in touch with her since though. I was the one doing all the "staying in touch"ing, and I thought I'd give it a break, especially as she said she would call... but she didn't. I am not taking this personally because I know T and I know she is busy and I know she is NOT one of the fake friends. There's a reason we are still close 13 years on. I could've let her know I was going to Chile though and I didn't. I bought her a little souvenir that I will send in the mail, along with a hand written letter, something I have not done for a long time now. I may have had other friends in mind at the start of the year and if I did, too bad, they're obviously not that important.

Live each day as if it were my last (ATTITUDE!): Hmmmmm another work in progress. I think at the start of the year I did want to live each day as if it were my last, and so I went along and joined all these THINGS. I got involved with the committee, I joined league tag, I became the school photographer (and then quickly forgot about that - I haven't showed to some events and others I have shown to, I've shown up as Parent not Photographer, so I forgot my camera!), I stayed on the Drovers committee (which thankfully is low-key at the moment).... what else?! I think that's about it. But ... the committee took over, to the point where I didn't even go to PTF meetings at school (as I had wanted) because I was too busy reading others' reports and writing my own and so on. I think that I went and PHYSICALLY made out as if each day was my last, joining things left, right and centre. But mentally and emotionally and spiritually, I'm not sure that I've been that connected. Something to work on as the second half of the year - and the rest of my life - approaches.

I am going to add one more goal to this though, and that is.... to prioritise correctly. Namely, the things to prioritise are my family and my happiness. Prioritising these means that everything else will fall into place in its own time at its own natural rhythm.