Color Code

Yesterday I took a trip to the dollar store looking for calendars.  The hang on your wall type.  The kind I haven't bothered with in several years.  And I found one.  It's of horses, which is fine - I like them.  And maybe by the end of the year I'll be able to distinguish between the breeds - having looked at them each day for a year.  At the dollar store my options were horses or golf courses.  I thought the decision was a simple one.  Maybe if I were willing to spend more on it the choice would not be so easy but I'm not willing to do that.

My reason for buying the calendar was simple.  I am going to hang it up next to my computer and I am going to keep track of several of my 11 in 11 goals with it.  Today I ran out to Walgreen's during my lunch to buy some accompanying Sharpies.  I now have all of the colors of the rainbow.  And then some.  I don't recall black ever being part of the rainbow.

For each color, there's a goal.  Purple = outfit, blue=no credit card usage, red=smoke free and so on and so forth.  For each day that passes, I will be able to put a check mark down if I have worked on the goal.  I don't need each color every day but I want to be able to look over each month and see that some progress has been made in each area.  There are a couple that don't have a marker... such as the inferiority stuff but how would I process that?  How would I provide a check mark?  That kind of stuff will probably (in many ways) be solved by the check marks the rest of my goals produce.

As for traveling and meeting people with similar interests, those don't have a marker either.  But - my goal is to go to at least one outing a month with the intention of meeting someone new.  I'll probably have to write that on my calendar in word form - just as a vacation would go up there too.