Mastermind Monday

So, here it is - mastermind monday! I was planning to go through some of my old papers from it just to revisit things, but I'd have to wade through a spare room full of random boxes and assorted stuff to dig it out and I really haven't felt like doing that. Maybe this week. Or maybe not - I feel like I have more important things to get done first. *smile* Let me tell you.

Most of my goals right now involve getting my life in order so I can move forward out of the hole I feel like I've been in since last summer. Being a grown-up about taking care of the little details and still doing what I'd like to do. I already feel a lot better about things and my ability to deal with them.

The first big thing is my job. For a long time I've been unhappy with it - I always said that I wanted to learn herbology for personal reasons only and that if I ever did do it as a job, it'd be more in the area of growing the plants and making the remedies, not in a clinic. Right now I'm working more in the people side of things and it's definitely been an education - in what I don't want to do. I got more satisfaction putting produce out than in using my education this way. So it's time for something else.
Second is getting my taxes sorted. I've been meaning to go to a tax place since last year to see if I can somehow claim my school stuff as a private college. Since I was planning on doing that, I didn't end up doing my taxes last year (bad, I know). And I still haven't yet - so that's one of my goals.
Third is finishing entirely with wild rose - which means finishing my master herbalist thesis. Won't be too hard, I just have to buckle down and actually do it.

So, my long term goals sound like this:
I have a job that satisfies me, monetarily and mentally, by or before April 30th 2011
My taxes from this year and last year are complete and filed by or before April 30th 2011
My Master Herbalist Thesis is completed and handed in by or before April 30th 2011

And my goals for this week are as follows:
I have applied at 5 places in search of a job that will satisfy me both mentally and financially by or before Monday April 11th 2011

I have called and made an appointment with H&R or other tax expert to have my taxes done by or before Monday April 11th 2011. I have also gathered up all my tax stuff in one place.

I have finished gathering information for my master herbalist thesis by or before Monday April 11th 2011. I have also called Wild Rose College to confirm that I do have until April 30th to finish it, and if not to purchase an extension for my thesis project.


And one last point I want to address. I was thinking about how part of what makes the mastermind process so effective was the group's belief in and holding of each others' goals, and how I'm maybe missing that a little bit here. There are two reasons I'm doing it anyway - one, the structured goal setting helps, even without a group, and two, I've still got the biggest mastermind group of all - the universe itself. I know I'm not explaining that right. What I mean is, I'm a part of the energy in the universe - connected and an intrinsic part of it - and that collective energy will bring me anything I ask for.
I think that the reason masterminding can work so well is because it lets people to more easily believe in and connect to that creation energy. It's goal setting turned into ritual, with all the connection and spirit and magic that ritual brings with it.