After our trip Up North a lot has been discussed about moving, more than I can even wrap my head around. Last night we sat down wrote out our big family goal moving and then under it we wrote a series of smaller goals. It’s not just a budget list but overall what is needed, room to room, month to month. Under each set of smaller goals there are the steps needed to complete them. It was nice & orderly, with a proper outline. An outline with letters & numbers & sub-letters. Boxes can be checked & dates were scheduled for mini goals.
See, again I reap the benefits of being married to a guy with a MBA.
My version of goal setting is usually on the back of an old envelope that should have been thrown out but I decided to write something important on it & now will frantically search for it EVERY.SINGLE.TIME I need something. My version of goal setting leads to total & utter anxiety.
This is why academics should not be allowed to run the world, we’d run it with meetings that had agendas written on the back of old envelopes & be unable to find them in time for our meetings. And it would be a really important meeting, like finally getting world peace, but our inability to be anything of the Absent Minded Professor would lead to world peace never being achieved. See FoxNews is right liberal academia is destroying the world, except it’s not because of some diabolical social engineering scheme it is because academics write important things on scraps of paper.
Thankfully Mike is in the business world & disaster was adverted.
I’m also SO happy because we are going forward with plan for moving! Even if it takes us two years to see this goal to point of being ready to move & even if we don’t end up on acres upon acres of land (Hey, I can dream!). It’s a wonderful feeling to have more things in place & to see it laid out. And as much as I tease my Hubby I love the neat & orderly checklist he came up with! I love that we sat down together, talked as a family, and we created a plan that has what we need to make this happen.
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Yes! My comment will take. Love it.
Yea!! I’m glad I got it fixed
I know! My husband wants to move like NOW, and it just totally stresses me out. I mean, it usually works out well to move and is exciting but I need time to mentall prepare for it. Like, at least a year.
It does usually all work out, but it’s the time before the leap that is scary.
What a wonderful way to move – I’ve been moving on average every two years or so since I left my parents house at 18. But it’s never been as organized as that – actually a couple of time it was – I’m done and everything in the back of the truck and lets see how far 50 bucks will take me!
We were never this organized in the past, I think it’s because we had less to be organized about, maybe?
It’s so nice that your husband is organized. It’s not a common quality in men.
It is nice, I tease him but I’m SO glad to have him working with me on big things like this