yhd: week 1

last week (over here), i started my weekly yhd posts ... how i'm doing with my 2009 yhd, as well as whatever else is popping up. and given the "short week" (jan 1-4), i learned that 45-minutes can result in an awesome conversation, i can minimize my shoulds by unshould-ing (and tapping notes into my blackberry to make sure i've unshould-ed). i learned for the 1st 4 days that i stepped up on other yhd activities that were NOT in my initial near-term & long-term

for this week, on the whatever-else-popped-up ... well, it was a nifty reconnecting & revisiting with friends. magz was in town; lunch was fun with her, and after just a quick yip-yap with one of her former classmates, i learned about how an egg-timer can be used in an office setting. had breakfast with someone from back in the college days - been more than 20 years. a traffic jam (crawling less than two miles in an hour) gave me a chance to catch-up with folks, but i missed a fabu home-cooked meal. training on combustion sources reminded me how much i REALLY miss technology and pollution control. got to spend some fun time with several sacto friends - keith, matt, floyd, eric, and dot ... and the coincidence of running into earl, with whom i worked back in '88-'90, was awesome! also, i was texting a friend in SD just as he was calling (and it's been quite a while!). i had a 1-hr r|cat conference call and THAT was very exciting and re-energizing! i learned that a friend's boyfriend yaps with one of the guitarists of a band that i had just seen last week friday. my mom got into a l'il car accident; she's okay.

333 ... this is the time i often wake-up for a quick blip of time (y'know, before the 4:45 to 5:15 AM clip of time for workdays!). so here's what googling got me from numerology - "this sign indicated that your spirit guides agree with your thoughts and feelings and could be interpreted as a cosmic 'yes!' to questions you have asked or ideas you may have." hmmm - go figure, i have spirit guides.

on the yhd activities ... i've revised how i keep track of where i am on my near-term choices so i don't have to revisit my original '09 yhd & i can include a few notes about my thoughts of where i'm at. also, i'm contemplating if i should just go biweekly (rather than weekly). nevertheless ...

• spiritual/health & body - re-establish reiki-practice for self - started re-reading my reiki info to "retrain" myself.
  
• creative expression - blog about apprentern (over here) - yikes! nothing yet.
  
• finance - completing taxes - for past taxes (long story, now better & short), 99% there! accountant + bookkeeper have told me that they have all the info needed. (will update this near-term next to specify '08 taxes!)
  

... and actually, very close and on the heels of these are ...

• work - being supportive and engaged in colleagues' goals and objectives - had training over this past week; exchanging knowledge. very fun stuff!
  
• health & body - continue with "serpentine" walk/jog/run training - only got 2 days in (rather than 4 days).
  
• travel/adventures - re-establish day hiking - hmmm? may regroup on where this is in the pecking order.
  

on the long-term choices ... have continued/started various spiritual related activities to beef up my intuitive awareness.

here are a few other activities i've touched upon in the 1st full week of jan '09 (and actually, if you want details, feel free to ask) ...

1_finances '09 ... completing taxes, suze orman-ing, revise/update financial planning objectives, being more mindful of better financial management, learning about environmental-related investment options, increasing savings toward retirement, re-establish philanthropic practices
2_health & body ... continuing to lower blood pressure and cholesterol, continuing healthier eating habits including balanced-meal home cooking, increasing healthy-heart type activities, re-establishing more regular yoga practice, re-establishing reiki practice, re-establish kickboxing practice, continue with "serpentine" walk/jog/run training, continue chiropractic health care, learning more about healthier/alternative food choices, make time to engage in mind & body exercise-related activities
3_relationships ... continuing to invest in friendships that are mutually supportive and unconditional, being constructive in letting go, increasing spending quality time with brother's family and mom, being mindful of and act accordingly toward relationships that are not spiritually and emotionally fulfilling, welcoming and becoming involved in a long-term/committed relationship with a man, being more mindful of creating time/space for out & about spontaneity, re-establishing building and sustaining relationships that contribute to mission/vision/values
4_work ... continuing to work on environmental & energy-related issues, fulfilling work's professional development and training goals & objectives, repositioning r|cat, integrating environmental professional development as part of goals & objectives, improving time/project management, re-establishing recognition as valuable resource for energy & enviro issues, continuing to enjoy and have fun at work, being supportive and engaged in colleagues' goals and objectives, creating professional and personal "bridges" among variety of colleagues
5_home ... creating and maintaining a home that is inviting for entertaining friends & family, establishing and maintaining an uncluttered home, re-establish gardening practice, creating a personal space for meditating and reiki practice, revisit and finish apartment therapy (over here)
6_creative expression ... blog about apprentern (in spirit of jengyee), write shorts about ba dating and like-kind IJAM stories, write about environmental professional development, make time to engage in creative expression activities, learn about and use digital photography techniques, re-establish drawing (pen/pencil) and painting (watercolor), re-establish connection and implement '94 epiphany (over here - and if you really wanna know the epiphany stuff, let me know & i'll forward), re-establish piano playing
7_travel & adventures ... travel where i'll use my my passport, visit spain, (re)visit friends in the u.s., travel at least once a quarter to see friends, take trip/vacation with man with whom i'm in a relationship, visit california nature locales, re-establish day hiking, make time for local weekend get-a-ways, travel with friends, take up a new recreational activity, start the zagat-like air district journal
8_spiritual ... re-establish reiki practice for self and for others, re-learn about angels for guidance, re-establish intuitive awareness practices as part of decisionmaking for betterment of self and communities, continue meditating, acknowledge and be mindful of signs, continue to make time to journal to increase/enhance spiritual awareness, continue to heal loss of friends, attend events related to spiritual development
9_possessions ... maintain possessions that support desires/goals/objectives (esp. health & body, relationships, work, creative expression, spiritual), read/finish at least one book per month among books already in possession, increase use of subscription magazine-related information, better use of journals, continue timely car maintainence
10_special intentions ... be directly involved in activities for influencing regional & national enviro-energy issues, be resource recognized and sought after as bridge for the enviro-energy issues where my spiritual & environmental professional development interests can be expressed as part of repositioned r|cat, be at ease with writing that is shared publicly, be at ease with managing and balancing my time

[RECAP/REPOST from last week] moniker-heave - and interestingly enough, on a moniker for someone ... i am acknowledging that it's time for me to put to rest a particular moniker (which i shall not go in to detail here). it is not helpful toward my personal efforts to invest in a particular friendship that is evolving in a positive direction. so it's going to be put to rest & archived in moniker-heaven. BUT i will continue my monikering - no mistaking that!

bring on week #2 of jan 2009!