{"id":48,"date":"2011-01-18T15:26:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T23:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rebeccataylor\/?p=48"},"modified":"2011-02-21T14:00:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T22:00:20","slug":"goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rebeccataylor\/2011\/01\/18\/goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the holidays, I visited home in Ontario and visited my partner’s family in England. Both visits were absolutely wonderful! Being home definitely let me daydream about the future (consult previous post<\/a>). Though I love my hometown and that marvelous feeling of home<\/em> in my core, I was very happy to get back to my current home in Vancouver. It’s nice to have my clothes hanging up and fresh laundry when I want it, use my own fridge and kitchen, and bake bread! Yum yum.<\/p>\n

While in Ontario, I had the opportunity to give a short re-read to one of the more inspiring books I’ve read in the past couple years, Me to We<\/a> by Craig and Marc Kielburger. I didn’t go through it all, but in the short bit I covered, I came across a line that really struck me, which goes something like this:<\/p>\n

It doesn’t matter as much whether you reach your goals, as long as you have the right ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s emphasize less the first part of the sentence, because what resonated with me is having the right<\/em> goals. This sentence can justify countless graduating class’ yearbook goals to “save the world”, “help the environment” and so on. It’s so true that having a positive attitude and having positive goals can be the driving force in motivating what you do.<\/p>\n

Ignoring now my previous post about thinking too far ahead, I have imagined a combined To Do + Goals list detailing the direction I wish my life to take in the next 5 years (justified by the excerpt above). Really it’s a wish list, and I would be so lucky to acheive or touch any of these goals.\u00a0I realize that life can change in a split second, but it’s fun to plan. Potentially the “funnest” part of this list? I have recently added a goal which is to be on the television show PICK A PUPPY in the next few years. I honestly don’t care about being on television, in fact I know that I would start speaking gibberish as soon as there were any cameras, the goal is that I want to play with various puppies in order to pick the perfect on to fit in my family!<\/p>\n

….I caught 10 minutes of that show the other day and I think it would be the best fun. I’m aiming high, people!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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