37 Simple Yet Worthwhile Goals
November 27th, 2007
Photo by Joan Puigcerver
Negative habits tend to be easy to pick up. It’s easy to be a little too lazy… it’s easy to eat one extra piece of candy… it’s easy to become addicted to caffeine. So I’ve put together the following list of useful habits that I’d like to work on. In and of themselves, none of these are extremely difficult, but all together I think that they will put me on the path to where I want to be.
Morning Habits
1. Get up when the alarm goes off
2. To start setting the alarm at 5am
3. Eat a healthy breakfast
4. Pack a healthy lunch
5. Take more of an interest in my appearance
6. Allow some time so that my son is not rushed getting ready in the morning
7. Exercise
8. Getting blogging done for the day
Work Habits
9. Don’t waste time on the internet (note to self: you don’t get enough email to justify getting every hour and you don’t manage the investments so checking yahoo finance is not a good use of time)
10. Stop calculating the hours until I can go home for the day. This is counterproductive
11. Get projects done
12. Learn to accept constructive criticism and ignore the rest
13. Really think about the task at hand and whether or not there is room for improvement either long term or short term
14. Keep better track of my time so that at the end of the month when billable hours are due it doesn’t take me an hour to calculate the totals
15. Answer emails promptly
16. If a task is given without a deadline, find out what the deadline is
Healthy Habits
17. Exercise 5 days a week
18. Take the kids for a walk when the weather is nice
19. Remember to take vitamin daily
20. Stop eating takeout for dinner
21. Meditate daily
22. Take up the practice of yoga
23. Set clear fitness goals in order to keep focused
24. Floss teeth daily
Parenting Habits
25. Listen better
26. Stop saying “I don’t know” when I really mean “I don’t understand what you’re saying”
27. Achieve some reasonable level of patience
28. Stop yelling
29. Take more time to find activities that we can do together
30. Stop using tv as a babysitter
Productivity Habits
31. Put pocket calendar to better use
32. Stop wasting time on the internet (even if it means uninstalling the stumble toolbar)
33. Be more selective about blogs to read
34. Schedule worktime better
35. Learn to set reasonable timetables
36. Use the laptop less. Pretend that it’s a desktop (for the most part).
37. Stop multitasking.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:23 am
I a working through some dissatsifaction with life right now. I googled “worthwhile goals” and came upon your site. One thing that helped me when I went through this exercise before and that I stopped doing was”worrying about work” when I am at work and “worrying about home” when I am home. That relieved a lot stress for me. I like 25, 26, 32, 35 on your list.