List Me, Baby!

(C4ward March Blogathon Day 4)

Five Goals to Achieve Sometime Before I Die

1. Create jewelry items that tribal dancers buy, love, and wear while performing.
2. Perform a solo at a major bellydance event like TribalCon.
3. Travel to New Zealand, and maybe Australia too. DH & I don’t really care that much for travel, but we could make an exception for this.
4. Become an ATS® Sister Studio and/or Gypsy Caravan Collective Soul Certified dancer
5. See the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights). Just because.

Five Goals to Accomplish in the Next Five Years to Move Towards Achieving The Above Goals

1. Keep learning new jewelry skills and honing the ones I already have.
2. Have professional photographs made of my work for advertising and festival entry purposes.
3. Research New Zealand  & Australia to determine where to go and what to do while there.
4. Attend and perform at as many bellydance events as possible, either solo or with a troupe.
5. Take at least two of the Collective Soul certification levels and/or retake ATS® General Skills and Teacher Training I.

Five Goals to Accomplish in the Next 12 MONTHS… as if it were the last year of my life!

1. Take as many ATS® classes as possible.
2. Get the Gypsy Caravan DVDs and start working with them.
3. Perform at least one solo at Oasis, Open Mic Night, or Northside Tribe’s own show.
4. Draw up a will!!!! (gotta be practical somewhere)
5. Make sure my husband and son (at least) know how much I love them.

What I Noticed when Making the Above Three Lists

1. None of the items had anything to do with my profession as a college professor. Basically, I’ve achieved every feasible goal there and I’m just maintaining status quo.
2. Setting goals for my little nanobusiness of making jewelry is HARD because I don’t want to turn it into a career per se. I don’t want to get so serious about it that it takes the fun out of creating stuff.
3. Tangible goals for my bellydancing hobby is easy enough because I’m such a newbie at it; the problem is that my age is working against me there.
4. Some practical things really should not be put off.
5. There’s a lot of DO-ing on the list, but in truth, I wouldn’t have to do any of these things except #5 (and #4 for practical reasons) on the 12-month list, and I’d be happy.