What are your life goals and ambitions. How close are you to achieving this, what is the one thing you can do take a step closer to your goals?

[chookmojo]

I usually take my guide from when the 'volunteer tomatoes' (self sown from previous year) start to come up - so I have actually put in 8 tomato plants this weekend and will be relocating a couple of stray volunteers. Couple of cherry tomatoes, one yellow pear shaped, one black russian and the rest are old reliable grosse lise.

I have also planted out lebansese cucumbers, watermelon, chilli, capsicum, radishes, rocket, lettuce, passionfruit, kale and tonnes of herbs (mostly basil and Thai basil).

Home made bruschetta from homegrown tomatoes and basil (and home made mozzarella if you are up for it) is one of the things we look forward to all year. So delicious. Over summer it is mostly what we eat for dinner 🙂

I'm off to the BAAG this weekend for yet more seedlings as I now have a truly daunting amount of garden, more than double my growing space and it took 5 metres of soil to fill the new beds.

[chookmojo]

And a month later the beds are built, filled, mulched and partly planted out 😄 More planting to do and then the next short term goal will be getting a water tank sorted out so the whole lot doesn't turn into a dustbowl over summer.

[chookmojo]

Yeah having your big goal is great way to directionalise yourself, but it really needs to get broken down into 'bite sized' chunks that are measurable and achievable. When you have that it is so much easier to gain that momentum and work your way towards the longer term.  

Maybe we should have a monthly goals thread for this sort of thing so we can put some achievables out there and cheer each other on.

[Hobbit]

Hi everyone,

Thought I might contribute to the great little thread!

What I like to do is make up a little list each day of all the things that I have to do for that day. As I complete each one, I systematically cross them off my list. There's something very fullfulling in looking at my list of "things to do" and seeing them all crossed off. That's my small, achievable goal, trying to get the list done. Gives me a sense of accomplishment at the end of the day.

And if I don't complete something on the list, it just goes onto the list for the next day, and so forth (or until I lose interest in it ha ha!!). I write anything down on the list, however small. 

When I'm done, I scrunch it up, throw it away and say "goals achieved". Then start again the next day.

It's just what I do....

Hobbit.

[peace]

Hobbit sounds great. I'd like to put that on the top of my list. Thanks