101 Goals, 1001 Days: My Yoga Meditation Book

Thursday, June 5, 2008

My Yoga Meditation Book

One of my favorite dates with Tahd is to go to Barnes & Noble, pick up a collection of books and magazines, and hang out on their couches reading. The last time I was there, I picked up Meditations from the Mat by Rolf Gates. I love it! There are 365 meditations, all about yoga - not just poses, but about the philosophy about yoga. It resonates with me so much!

One of my goals is to read the whole book, and I think I'm somewhere around the 50th meditation. I wish I could read the whole book overnight and absorb every bit of it. A yogic lifestyle seems like one that fosters a quiet, calm mind. I like that! Hopefully the more I read, the more that will be fostered in me.

My 101 Goals

Places to Visit
1. See a Broadway show
Removed - 2. Go camping for more than 1 night.
Removed - 3. Attend Summerfest.
4. Eat at the Melting Pot.
5. Go to Disney World
6. Visit California
7. Go see a recording of Prairie Home Companion.
8. Go to Vegas
9. Go to the Caribbean
10. Take a family camping trip
11. Go to a pro baseball game
12. Go on a weekend getaway at a bed and breakfast with Tahd

Personal Stuff
1. Do a tv fast for 1 week.
2. Buy some sort of designer clothing.
3. Try bubble tea.
4. Do a complete MAC eye makeover.
5. Go on a girls' weekend.
6. Go to the movies alone.
7. Have a bra fitting.
8. Create 12 of my own "Extra Soul Support" slips.
9. Go to bed before 11:00 every night for 2 weeks.
10. Grow my hair out so it reaches the middle of my back.
11. Buy a real blog name.
12. Purge my wardrobe of anything I haven't worn in 2 years.
13. Get drunk.
14. Have a massage.
15. Have a facial.
16. Take a bath.
17. Write my life story in less than a week.
18. Create a "Home Bible."
19. Make Christmas cookies and butter tarts.
20. Send a Christmas letter.
21. Eat with chopsticks.
22. Shop at Woodman's.
23. Paint pottery.
24. Buy a lottery ticket.

Finances
1. Create and maintain an emergency fund for 6 months.
2. Eliminate credit card debt.
3. Save $5000
4. Pay cash for Christmas.
5. Support an infertility organization.

Household Stuff
1. Make homemade salsa.
2. Put new flooring in the bathroom.
3. Paint the bathroom vanity.
4. Sew kitchen curtains.
Removed - 5. Move the peonies.
6. Build a patio in our back yard.
Removed - 7. Try square foot gardening.
8. Fix and finish our basement.
9. Make fruit leather.
10. Decorate my bedroom.
11. Refinish our stairs.
12. Paint the hall.
13. Help Tahd build/create/paint bedside tables.
14. Create a recipe binder.
15. Have a yard sale.
16. Garden by the front yard light pole.

Volunteerism, Charity and Reaching Out
1. Somehow support the greater infertility cause.
2. Give up the MOPS Coordinator position.
3. Get more politically active.
4. Throw a legends party.
5. Bake a cake for someone who has hurt me.
6. Pay it forward at Starbucks.
7. Do our own "One Winter Morning on Plum Street."
8. Vote for Barack Obama.
9. Complete 200 blog entries.

Content to Consume
Removed - 1. Read my anatomy text book.
Removed - 2. Read all 365 of my yoga meditations.
3. Read "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Grapes of Wrath," "Of Mice and Men," "The Catcher in the Rye," and "A Wrinkle in Time."
4. Watch "The Matrix," "Sicko," "Mulholland Drive," "Brokeback Mountain," "Little Miss Sunshine," "Juno," "Michael Clayton," "The Queen," "Good Night and Good Luck," "Life is Beautiful," and "Shine."
Removed - 5. Watch all the major Oscar films.
6. Read the entire Bible.

Health Stuff
1. Get pregnant or do IVF.
2. Get off Zoloft.
3. Do some sort of more extended cleanse.
4. Go to a chiropractor.
5. Have a BMI of 21 or less.
6. Run a race.
7. Run 10 miles at once.
8. Explore why my spotting doesn't stop.
9. Fast.

Family Stuff
1. Finish Gabe's "First Year" video.
2. Get my scrapbook up to date.
3. Create a birthday reminder system.
4. Have family photos done.
5. Ask my parents 100 questions.
6. Get Gabe's Canadian citizenship papers.

Things to Learn
1. Take a yoga class.
2. Take a cake decorating class.
3. Take a photography class.
4. Learn to change a tire.

Things to Own
1. Buy a car.
2. Get a badminton set.
3. Get a chair and a half.
4. Finally select a "big boy bed" for ds.
5. Buy a beautiful bra in my correct size.
6. Get a wooden play set.
7. Get a chimney cap.

Business
Removed - 1. Achieve star leader.
Removed - 2. Qualify for SOAR.
Removed - 3. Qualify for Sterling Club.

Halfway Point Reassessment Goals
1. Cut my hair short
2. Do another "no spend" month
3. Don't eat out for one month
4. Get rid of non-sentimental baby clothes
5. Get a tattoo
6. Take the train to Chicago
7. Take Gabe on an "adventure" everyday for a month
8. Decide what I want to do professionally... or when I grow up ;)
9. Have a picnic lunch or dinner at a local park
10. Try 5 new non-chain restaurants
11. Start a journal of some of my favorite childhood memories

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My Yoga Meditation Book

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