Gotta get goals…
1 May 2007I’ve been tagged. Not a toe tag or a deer in season tag, but rather tagged by a fellow blogger jennifer j. rose. I don’t mind being tagged, but I didn’t even know I was playing. How do you avoid being tagged? The game appears to have started with Alex Shalman on his blog. It seems that being tagged is a good thing. Perhaps not any special honor, but at least a chance to participate with other bloggers. The consequence of being tagged is to write a piece on my personal or professional goals. This caused me to reflect on whether I actually have any goals. I’m a pretty lucky guy and have nearly everything in life I could use or want. So I asked my wife if I have any goals. She replied, “Of course you do, you want to make lots of money so you can support us comfortably and I can quit working.” Now that I have a goal, perhaps I should set some intermediary goals to achieve my overarching goal. Either that, or win the powerball.
My newfound goals are:
1. Marry someone wealthy. Too late for that one, how about: Exceed the expectations my clients have of me. That seems like a good goal. My clients don’t really care if I’m faster than a speeding bullet or can stop a powerful locomotive with just one hand. I believe they would be perfectly content if I were shot and run over by a train; provided I handled their case quickly, smoothly, and successfully.
2. Retire young. Nope, too late for that one too. How about: Always act, feel, and think as young as I do now. That works. I have to exercise a lot harder now than I used to, but it does make me feel much better. I learn more from my daughter than I have ever taught her. I’ve heard that imagination is the greatest aphrodisiac. I think once you are on the south side of 40, it is the only effective aphrodisiac.
3. Keep learning. Preferably something useful, but in any case, just keep learning new things. I’d like to learn to fly (in an airplane), scuba, surf, snow ski, several languages, and more than three songs on my guitar. I feel it is crucial to keep learning as you grow older, it distracts people from all the other things you are beginning to forget.
4. Improve my sense of humor. Its no trick to convulse yourself with laughter when somebody else slips on a banana peel and lands on their ass. The trick is to be able to laugh at yourself when you are sitting on the floor with a bruised bottom.
5. I would like to make enough money to support my wife in the style to which she would like to become accustomed. She has been my faithful and ardent supporter since we first got married. It doesn’t matter how many times something didn’t work out, how many mistakes I made, or what she has had to do without; she has cheerfully supported me in anything I wanted to do. I couldn’t get a better wife, but maybe I could do better for her.
Now comes the fun part. I get to pass the baton by tagging someone else. Actually, several someone elses according to the rules. I tag Atchuthan Sriskandarajah, Eugene Lee, Grant Griffiths, and David Z. Kaufman.
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