1st Listing of Goals

So I said that I want to be productive and be inspired by Sara and start living a life like hers, I realized we are very different people. The kind of stuff she’s very hardcore listing and organizing for I may not be so interested in hardcore listing and organizing at this stage of my life, such as babies. She just had a newborn and so for the longest time I’ve been reading her entries about her pregnancy, purposeful conception, preparations, parenting and such and such. It’s still very informative and good reading even though we’re not planning for a baby right now so I hope to go back to her entries when we ‘re at that stage. So, now that I decided to start this blogging path, what do I do, what do I list about? So I just saw an entry where she listed areas in her life that she would like to change, her first is to keep her house clean and second is to learn to speak Spanish fluently.  So I think that is a good way to start, by asking what do I want to work on/ change in my life now? And here’s my list:

1) I want to work on a good disciplined and scheduled time to be with God. That should be my #1 priority, it often gets pushed back, but God really deserves to be the #1 priority and it’s really the head of all changes. Because without God, I have no mission, I have no purpose, so I really need to set a good discipline for that.
2) I want to work on my marriage, relationship with Ashish. And that is challenging because it is hard to look at things objectively when you’re in the relationship itself and be organized about it. Emotions and gut reactions can so easily take over the organizing process. So I gotta figure out how to improve our relationship together and hopefully we will also be able to make some lists within our relationships as well.
3) Studying for my license exam. That one is very straightforward, I’m scheduled for May 6^th and I already have a path to studying so I just need to be disciplined.
4) I would like to find a job.
5) Keep up with homework, I mean housework, I don’t live in a house, so I thought home-work, but it sounds too much like schoolwork...
6) Pursue my crafts and hobbies and a lot of times that involves home crafts, so if I can work on #5, I can enrich my #6.

And that’s it, actually all of the above have been the things I’ve been trying to work on already the past few months. So yay! The list looks good already because they’re exactly the things that has been on my mind already and it looks good as a written list rather than some abstract thoughts in my head. I hope to be more specific as I keep working on them. I realize that this blog is going to sound more and more like my diary, or some attempt of me trying to become more organized, which I guess isn't very entertaining reading. So then I thought of, I should make a list of goals for this blog as well!

1) It is for my process and sorry to say, but I guess this will be more for me than for readers' entertainment. I guess making it a public blog makes it feel like I'm talking to someone rather than myself... And perhaps I can get some accountability along the way...? 

2) I do hope to be able to encourage others who are reading this in some way or other either by inspiring them as well or by providing provoking thoughts from which they can reflect on their own lives (such as how Sarah's blog have inspired me).

3) I hope to also at times providing interesting updates about our lives here in DE for those of my friends from NY who are reading this.

Yay! I'm on a roll with these entries! Let's get it started in here yea!

Intro #2

I had meant to start a blog for the longest time already.  I never could start it up again. The hardest part about anything really is just that beginning, that starting things up. I am trying again now because I am so inspired by one of my favorite blog, which I actually found through wedding planning, called Feeding the Soil. The author, Sara is everything I want to be, well not exactly everything, but pretty close to it. I really enjoy reading about her philosophies and thoughts. She is an organizer, a listmaker, and a visionary, she knows what she wants to do. She’s very purposeful in everything. She has a life book, with a section for every aspect in her life, stating her goals and the process to reach them. She also makes scrapbooks and other crafts.  There’s a lot of women like that in the blog world (thus being successful at blogging too). One thing I really like about these women is that they are very productive, they make great use of their time and they have great things to show for it, either in their pictures, in their step by step recipes, or even in their reflections of the experience.  So I want to be like Sara, I want to be productive in life, not waste time, but instead feel like I’m alive, not like a zombie, but that I’m alive in the way I use the time God has given me. That is something I really struggled with in this time period of my life, the period post wedding and in unemployment. I remember one of my friends, Eva, reminded me that we are made as BEings and not DOings and so we are called to be with God and not be consumed by the things we do.  I don't want to become a busybody, but I do want to be more intentional and purposeful in the way I do things so that I can be my best.  Honestly, I don’t know if this desire of mine really reflect who I really am or just who I wish I can be cause I’ve tried to be more organized but I usually come back to where I am now and be only a tiny bit organized and wishing that I can be more.  So we’ll see how this comes out.  Oh and to ease my transition to blogging again, I decided to use a voice recorder to record my thoughts and then transcribe it again afterwards. Now that I think about it, this method probably takes up more time than if I were to just write directly, but for some reason I’ve always thought blogging would take so much time to write which then inhibits me from actually writing. Anyways I like it so far, so as with all things, we’ll see.

Intro

As I begin this first post, questions fly in my head: am I really going to keep this blog? will I really write in it enough for it to be substantial? how much am I going to write? what will it be about?  All of it which I suppose would be normal questions for any beginner blogger.

Since getting married and moving from the Big Apple to the suburbs of Delaware, I've been wanting to start a blog to jot down and share my experiences.  This is probably one of my biggest transitions in life so far.  I figured it would also be good to verbally and visually share my life with beloved friends and family whom we have left behind in NY and elsewhere.  So let's see how far this blog can go!