Friday, November 11, 2011
It’s 11/11/11, make three wishes.

Instead of making three wishes, I am going to make three goals. Making goals is much more valuable to me, because it’s something that I can work towards achieving.

So here’s my plan: these are three things that I want to accomplish by 12/12/12. That gives me a year, a month and a day to get these goals in action. Here they are:

1. Launch my Health Coaching business and save up for Culinary School in 2013: As I finish my nutrition degree through IIN, the plan is to launch my health coaching business and begin taking on clients in the new year. I am really excited to begin helping people to reach their health coals. But, more than this, what I want to do is attend culinary school in 2013 because I am passionate about food and I want to both strengthen my food writing and also be able to teach people how to make the healthy food I am recommending they eat. And so, in order to get there, I am going to save any extra penny I can (from family birthday presents to freelancing checks to health coaching payments) to achieve this goal.
2. Begin seriously writing about food/health and expand my Published Clips Portfolio: As I am finally writing more for my full-time job at Family Circle, I also want to start freelancing a lot more. It’s part of what I am hoping will help to pay for my chef’s training at the Natural Gourmet Institute (see Goal #1), but in general I just love writing and would like to see my name published more. I am currently taking a Food Writing course at MediaBistro and also considering taking the Memoir Writing course in the new year. I have tons of ideas for personal essays, relationship articles and many more. My main goal is to build up my food writing clips at different magazines and begin to work on a food memoir.
3. Maintain my 100lb weight loss and incorporate a Fitness Regiment into my life: Since I’m finally back at Weight Watchers with a friend, I really want to get back down to my ideal weight of 130lbs. Right now I’m at a good weight, but I know I could be doing better if I wasn’t snacking as much and exercising more. On top of it all, I’ve made a commitment to finally incorporate regular exercise into my life by keeping a weekly fitness video journal. What I’d really like is to have this take off and become one of those people that loves to exercise. In fact, and I know this is a big dream for someone who’s not a runner, I’d like to run the NYC Marathon before my 30th Birthday. That gives me 4 years to fall in love with running!

I really believe in setting daily goals, so setting even bigger long term goals seems like the next step.

Since all of these are related to the aforementioned not-so-secret passion that I have for food and wellness, I hope that you will follow along on my healthy living blog to see how I’m doing.

I’ll be making sure to keep track of them on my calendar and find a way to make it work, while making sure that I maintain a balanced life, of course. But these are my main goals and I am absolutely determined to achieve them.