I am preparing to write my goals for 2019. I have done this every year for the last 25 years, ever since I read the Princeton Study which measured the success or failure of people in relation to their ability and willingness to write their annual goals down on paper.
For better or for worse, I have kept all of those pieces of paper. Of course, the need to write your goals is only to reinforce the goal in your brain, so that, when the conditions are right, you will take the appropriate action. However, having them written also gives you the ability to look at your prior goals and reflect on what a blockhead you have been for the most part of your life.
For example, in 2009 I made a goal that I was going to speak French in two years. I have just put that again on my list for 2019, but I said five years. In five years, I will probably change the date to 2030.
Having said that, I don’t think I know of anyone else who has spent ten years trying to learn to speak French. It could be attributed to the blockhead thing. Or, the dementia thing. Perhaps, I learned to speak French seven years ago, and it’s the Alzheimers thing. I truly don’t remember.
It is beginning to worry me that when I am in the middle of trying to find a word in English, I can see the ethereal object in my head, and I can remember the word in French, but I can’t think of it in English. Blockhead, for example, is ‘moi’.
I would like to solicit any goals that you would like me to have for this coming year. I will think about adding them to my list . . right after the French goal.