Daily Archives: May 2, 2017
It’s A Rest Stop
Now that our Little Engine The Could project is over, I’ll be working behind the scenes getting ready for the next project which is due to begin May 15.
I think we are going to do a project based on the Abundance Formula by Astarius, featuring didgeridoo, chanting, and a collection of talks. I’ll have more information on this next project soon.
If you have any ideas about what you might like to explore in the future, please, leave a comment and let me know.
In the interim, I’ll be moving the Feng Shui and Decluttering project we did way back in 2007. Those posts, which were originally uploaded to our old blogger blog, will be back dated to reflect the original project, and the comments will also be transferred.
The Little Engine – Wrap Up
This post provides links to pertinent aspects of The Little Engine That Could project, so that you won’t have to sift through the archives to find out what you want to know.
The original idea, basic concept, and statement of intent is here:
- Let’s Do Something – Original concept
- Setting Our Goals – Intro to The Little Engine That Could
If you would like to try this project for yourself, you can start on day 1, Let’s Get Started, and come back daily to continue on thru Day Thirty: Did We Do Something?. Or, you can pick through the posts, finding what seems interesting and useful. The important thing is to commit to a daily practice.
As you work with the Little Engine That Could, we encourage you to post your thoughts, ideas, results, joys and disappointments as you go. This is an active blog, and if you post, we will notice and reply, and give you the benefit of our own experience and support if it seems pertinent or appropriate.
The basic summary of our results is posted here: What We Actually Did. A gallery of all the images used in this project can be found here: The Little Engine Photo Gallery.
Here is the complete listing of the daily posts for The Little Engine That Could project:
Getting Our Engines Revved:
Our 30 days starts now:
- Day 1: Let’s Get Started
- Day 2: The Little Engine That Could – (the familiar story)
The Little Engine That Could – (the original story) - Day 3: Positivity
- Day 4: What’s Your Plan?
- Day 5: Slow But Steady
- Day 6: Oops! Where did the day go?
- Day 7: Art Therapy
- Day 8: A Helping Hand
- Day 9: Music Anyone?
- Day 10: Something Motivational
- Day 11: Divine Intervention
- Day 12: Just Do It!
- Day 13: Lightening Things Up
- Day 14: Derailed?
- Day 15: When Your Goal Is Impossible
- Day 16: 9 Quick Tricks For Overcoming Inertia
- Day 17: Newton’s Second Law
- Day 18: It’s Rocket Science
- Day 19: Getting Started Is Everything
- Day 20: When You’re In A Slump
- Day 21: I Can Do Anything
- Day 22: Walking On Water
- Day 23: If he can… I can
- Day 24: How Can I Recharge My Depleted Motivation?
- Day 25: The Law of Delay
- Day 26: Parkinson’s Law
- Day 27: Mind Maps
- Day 28: Random Thoughts on Obstacles
- Day 29: Down To The Wire
- Day 30: Did We Do Something?
Bonus:
What We Actually Did!
Over all, I think the project helped all of us to make progress with our various goals. I think I was the only one who flat out didn’t do anything at all to further their goal. I did, however, learn a lot about goal setting and what NOT to do the next time I decide to set goals for myself.
What follows are the results that have been posted thus far:
Karla
Well, my goal was too lofty but I DID manage to organize debt and feel good about my plan going forward. It was tough to make some of the choices that means less incoming every two weeks but in the long run it will be more peaceful. I enjoyed the The Prosperity Project inspiration along the way!
Daniel
While I can not say I achieved my goal. I can say I took steps towards it. I have a rough plan of steps I need to take to bring it even closer. Steps I did not have a month ago. So a SUCCESS in my opinion.
Shirley
The road to hell is paved with good intentions… that pretty much sums up how well I did with my goal. I managed to do absolutely nothing… nothing at all with regard to getting my faucet replaced. It was an absolute fail. HOWEVER… I did do so much work on the website… several new mini-sites up and running… lots of new content… AND I worked my regular job… Had a very sick grandpuppy and a very worried family… and a bunch of other stuff. So I didn’t just DO NOTHING, what I did was EVERY THING BUT the faucet.
So… While the goal itself was a failure, the last 30 days was very productive and good. And if I had it to do over, I’d set a different goal, because I really do think I picked the wrong thing.
What did I learn? I learned that it is very important for me to choose long term goals that are something I really do want to actually do… not stuff that I think I might want, or that I think would be “good” for me. The “good for me” goals need to be something small and easy that I commit to doing every single day. And if I don’t want to actually DO it, there’s no point in making it a goal, because I will do everything in my power to avoid the doing of it.
My favorite posts were the ones about Newtons Laws … I love that physics applies to my every day life to accurately. Most helpful to me ?? again that would be Newton’s Laws of Motion. The Mind Mapping looked interesting, and I think it might be something fun to try later on this year.
Saskia
Well I failed miserably LOL. I only got 15 out of 40 bags sewn and 9 of them were done before we started this months project.
Note to Saskia: I wouldn’t call getting 1/3 of the bags sewn a miserable failure! You did actually sew 6 of them which is way better than 0. So that’s progress.
By The Way:
It’s not too late to post your own results to this goal setting project. Just leave a comment with your experiences, successes and/or failures, with your insights, ideas, stories, and anything else you want to share. I’ll update this post as new comments appear. We’d love to hear what you have to share!
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