Kelly Loves Setting Goals Part II: New Year's Edition

Last night we had our New Year's 2010 edition of Circle. After eating (more than usual) and drinking a nice bottle of wine (thanks, Jean) we opened up the goals we set for ourselves last year, which had been safely stashed away in a little box in Chantal's care.*

We'd each made two lists: our "internal" goals and our "external" goals. To my own surprise, I could literally say that all of my internal goals (four of them) had been reached. They ran something like this:

1. Feel more contentment, more of the time.

2. Start practicing again.

3. Learn to trust my intuition even more.

4. Feel more and more in the flow of my own life.

Numbers 2 and 3 are certifiable. Ever since my harrowing visit to Bobby Wood back in July, I sit nearly every day now. And the fact that I have started giving Tarot readings to total strangers this year is testament to a significant increase in my intuitive trust. Numbers 1 and 4 are less quantifiable, and are the work of a lifetime. But movement is being made, if proven only by the fact that I didn't feel the need to include either of them on my list for 2010.

My "external goals" were less reliable over all--I didn't get an unexpected windfall and I am not in a rocking relationship--but that feels okay to me. Several of them

were on the theme of finding new ways to make a living outside of my (then) current job at Sounds True, which of course has happened in a big way. Oh, and one of my goals was for Baxter to be calmer when I had company over. As I read that I looked up and saw him sitting on the couch between Jenna and Chantal, looking nothing if not the perfect gentleman.

In other words, sometimes miracles do happen.

*Note to Jenny, Haven & Tara: I have your goals and will be sending them to you!