kattitudes

I have become addicted to this place. I’m a list maker by nature anyway.

Some days I make my lists just so I can admire how all the pretty words line up and organize themselves whilst I sit happily, admiring it from a distance until it implodes from the weight of its own non completion.

Other days, I am Queen Efficiency, making entries on my List of Important Things I Must Do Before the End Of the World and crossing them off just to show that I was able to cross them off.

What can I say. I was born a Gemini. Even my dear husband will look at me sometimes and tell me that I am such a Gemini.

Anyway, main point of the story is that this website - well, I think it is going places.

The whole idea is that you get on there, and along with everyone else there, you list goals that you want to achieve. Immediate goals, long term goals, pie in the sky goals, and pie in your eye goals. It doesn’t matter.

What does matter is that you also get cheers every day. And every day, you are encouraged to wander the site, and indiscriminately read other people’s goals and their entries about their goals and leave them a cheer or a comment, encouraging them on.

Basically, it’s a website cheering section.

It’s a website for people who see the glass half full.

I’m a glass half full kinda lady, and I like that. I spent a lot of time over my life and lately not only with the glass is half empty type of folks, but let’s- all- just- roll- our- eyes- over- the- fact- that- we- are- being- asked- to- acknowledge- that- there- is- even- a- glass- in- the- first- place- I- mean- come- on- as- if type people too. I’m tired of that. I like being positive. I like being a glass is half full type person.

If you aren’t, no problems. Don’t visit.

But if you are, this website is just wonderful. It becomes addictive. You find that when you list your goals, you *want* to set attainable goals. Then you find that you want to start making steps towards your goals just so you can write entries about making steps towards your goals. Then before you realize it, that stuff that you keep telling yourself for thirty and forty years that you are going to do? Well, you are doing it!

Case in point. Today, I started to juggle. I have wanted to learn to juggle for ages. It’s not an important skill. Not a lifesaving skill. Not even a socially viable skill. But just one of those silly things I wanted to be able to do. And I have been working towards it bit by bit finally with encouragement and cheers and I am almost there.

Same with my sign language. I have known for forty years I wanted to learn to sign. Forty years of procrastination behind me. A few weeks on this site and I have a local class lined up here in Atlanta at the only college in the area that has an accredited course for sign language interpreters. I start in January, along with my Mister and my sister (fingers crossed).

I have found that I am also putting a lot of the crafting goals that I had for Kattitudes on my list of 43 things I want to accomplish. For example, I know that I want to start talking about scrapbooking, crochet and knitting. Three things I haven’t touched on yet here on Kattitudes. So, all three are on my goal list. I want to really focus on improving my jewelry artistry and move from just bench jewelry to jewelry designer. Those goals are on there.

This website has really helped me focus what I want to get done and when I want to accomplish them.

Rather just read me blather on, the website itself has some better answers about what it does and why:

Write down your goals

People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. Why is that? First, getting your goals in writing can help you clarify what you really want to do. You might find you have some important and some frivolous goals. That is OK. You’ve got space for 43 Things on your list. Not every one of them has to change the world (but save room for the ones that might).

Get Inspired

What do you want to do with your life? It is not an easy question to answer – and you shouldn’t have to answer alone. Browse 43 Things to find out what others want to do. You might find some goals you share. Click the “I want to do this” button to add a goal to your list. Got an idea for a new goal? Just type it in the text box on the homepage or at the bottom of any page on the site. Bam. Now, it’s your thing.

Share your progress

We all have stories about what we care about. Writing down your progress on a goal can help someone else learn about something you both want to do. When you see a goal you’ve achieved, click on the “I’ve done this” button and share a story about how you did it.

And one of my favorite parts of 43things is that it is not alone. There are sister sites included with links at the bottom of each page. Your profile to one site links you through ALL the sites, so if you find yourself intrigued, you could potentially organize your life into oblivion. The sister sites are:

• http://www.43places.com/
• http://www.43people.com/
• http://www.allconsuming.net/
• http://www.listsofbests.com/

I am really enjoying myself. My personal profile on 43things is, of course, Kattitudes, and you are welcome to join me as I work on my crafting (and personal) goals.

via 43things.com

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