On your mark. Get set. Go,

"We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."
-Maxwell Maltz

I was reading through some quotes today and this one in particular really hit home. When you don't have goals in life, life starts to lose purpose. I have had many goals I wanted to accomplish but it seemed like I was never reaching those goals. I think it was because I would just think of things I wanted to do but never wrote them down and planned them out. I'm the type of person where if I write something down it will get done, otherwise I just forget about them and loathe about how I wasn't able to accomplish any of them. I finally told myself that I have wasted enough time not getting anywhere, it was time to put an end to thinking but not doing. So I recently jotted down some goals for my mind, body, and soul (no particular order).

Here we go...

Bismillah.

Mind

• Work on blog daily
  
• Find work from home job
  
• Listen to Islamic lecture every other day, take notes
  
• Find online Islamic courses
  
• Read a book monthly from book list
  
• Look into getting educated in the field of homepathy/naturopathy
• Get involved with Al Maghrib on a voluntary basis
  

Body

• Lose and maintain healthy weight by February 2008
  
• Workout at least 5x per week for one hour each day
  
• Achieve ideal measurements and fat percentage
  
• Enroll self in a weekend yoga class
  
• Take time (1.5hrs) out for self weekly
  

Soul

• Read at least 2 pages of Quran daily
  
• Memorize suras
  
• Improve salat by
• reviewing fiqh of salat
• give myself unlimited time to pray
  
• learn meanings of the components of salat
• pray sunnah
  
• Donate monthly from own income, find institute to donate to
  

Habits to acquire to achieve goals...

• Do prayers when they begin
• Stay up after Fajr
• Go to sleep early
• Make dua frequently
• Check back on your goals and record progress
• Write out daily, weekly things to achieve
  
• Pray complete prayers-Fard & Sunnah
• Be optimistic about life, there is nothing you cannot do
  
• Limit time and be aware of how much time is spent on aimlessly browsing on the internet
  
• Look for Quran teacher

So these are the goals I have set for myself and inshallah with the help of Allah will achieve. I am going to print out a calendar and put it up somewhere where I will always see it. On it I will assign each goal a start and end date and will inshallah make sure I accomplish each goal. I will update my progress every so often on this blog. Blogging is actually really helping me get my thoughts out and organize them, sometimes I even feel like I'm going to be held accountable for the things I said I would do in my blog-it's kinda funny.