6 Habits for a Highly Effective Sabbatical

I’m a high capacity person.  I’m a goal setter and an accomplisher.  I have dreams and I believe in taking my dreams and turning them in to my DESTINY.  I’m on Sabbatical for a month and I’ve decided to set some goals for this one-month stretch where I don’t have to go to work… I mean I don’t GET to go to work.

Here are my sabbatical goals:

1-    Make the lawn look nice.  We’ve had crab grass in quite a few spots so I’m going to focus on fertilizer, crabgrass preventer and watering.  I enjoy putzing around the yard.  This morning, I literally spent about an hour just standing in the back yard watching the tractor sprinkler creep along its path.  I think I may give it another hour of close attention later today.

2-    Get better at washing cars.  I know the basics of car washing… spray, apply soap, wash and then rinse.  But in this elementary approach to washing a car, the finished product is not what I’d refer to as ‘Award Winning’.  So I’m going to learn the basics of waxing and buffing a car.  I have a teal green, 1995 Honda Accord with the paint chipping off of it… it’s time I started making it look nice.

3-    I’m installing a micro-wave oven over our stove.  This sounds like a project for next week.

4-    I’m going to get one, if not two of my kids confidently riding on two wheels.

5-    I’ll try to tan my Canadian body in the areas covered by my golf shirts.

6-    I should remove my suitcase from the front entry-way.  It’s been there since Monday (today is Friday).  I think today should be the day for that.

There they are, my 6 goals for a Highly Effective Sabbatical.  I may write a book about it.  I’ll call it “In a back yard, with a tractor, on a sunny day”. 

So learn from me everyone.  Dream Big.  If you don’t set some goals for yourself, you may end up spending a beautiful sunny day outside and not really accomplish anything. 

Comments

[jck]

Luv that pic of U and your girls! D.

[Rachel]

Thanks for the update. Have an awesome sabbatical. It sounds like you've got the right idea.

[Nancy]

Love your goals. Except the car. Seriously, just take it to Paradise Car Wash. Why trouble yourself?

[Brenda Alreck]

Get that car looking awesome, Amanda is counting on it!

[gb]

I have $5 on the line that the suitcase is still in the hall.
gb

[Jeanell]

For your crabgrass issue: Costco has (had?) Scott's fertizer with crabgrass control in it... it is amazing stuff and worked for our yard. You will be happy with the purchase, I am sure.