My plans for 2013: Part 5 of 6 — Body / Red
The “Body” category is one that is represented by the Fiery Red of leadership and action. It is the physical side of me, the action-taker, the pro-active, take charge, kick butt and take names me. Outside of a work environment, not a me you see very often.
In the past, some of my successes in this area have been kayaking, finding new doctors or dentists, going whale watching / hot air ballooning / climbing a mountain, travelling to Nova Scotia / Cape Breton / Quebec City / Sherbrooke / Bahamas / Amsterdam / Gaspe / St. John’s / Hawaii, doing a 5KM walk, learning to golf, and actively going for massages.
Last year,I had six priorities, and separate from some one-off contributions here and there, I did nothing about any of them in any consistent fashion. All of them will roll forward onto this year’s list. One positive aspect was related to careers — I moved off of the one-off special projects that were EAP / SR / SORO / DRAP and back into my “day-job” elements of audits, performance measurement, and evaluations.
This year, there are several activities that mutually reinforce each other — stretching exercises, more proactive back care (stretch, massage, chiro), and losing weight. On the formalized health front, there are some boxes that I need to tick with my regular doctor and need to find a new dentist and hygienist. In addition to getting organized for giving blood, I also want to improve my management of “sleep” times (i.e. going to bed earlier). And, just cuz I want to increase my frustration perhaps, I want to go golfing more often this year. Once a year is just not enough for an activity I enjoy.
With those goals in mind, here’s my working to do list for the Heart category:
ROCKS | GRAVEL | SAND | WATER | AIR |
Annual Update | ||||
Exercises Proactive back care | Weight Golfing | Outstanding health issues | Sleep times Dentist | Give blood (#25) |
Ongoing Tracking | ||||
BP changes Checkup | Stress mgmt Meditation | Kata | Mentoring Coaching French | Ethics: EX Ethics: WA Teaching role Municipal Theatre |
Bucket List Areas | ||||
#23. Meditation #24. Slide down a firepole #27. Weigh under 200 lbs #28. Skate Rideau Canal both ways #29. Ride a dogsled #30. Whitewater rafting #31. Kayak a river #32. Go fly fishing | #33. Rappel, zipline #34. Try surfing #35. Rock climbing #36. Snowboard #37. Tree-top sleeping #38. Cross a rope bridge #39. Cage diving with sharks | #40. Upgrade scuba certification #41. Take athletic trip #42. Horseback riding #43. Learn to sail #44. Learn to waterski #45. Learn to play tennis #46. Learn a martial art #47. Learn archery | #48. Learn to fence #49. Learn how to swim properly #50. Milk a cow #82. See free lions, penguins, alligators, pandas, polar bears, dolphins (Hawaii, September 2008) #84. See Northern (Ottawa, 2008) and Southern lights | #85. Drive convertible #86. Take trip in RV #87. Houseboating #88. Ride in gondola #91. Ride an airboat #92. Take a cruise #93. Ride an elephant #94. See an iceberg #95. Haunted house #96. See a castle #97. Tall ship |
Priority Travel Areas | ||||
England Territories Grand Canyon | Galapagos Ortona | Iceland Scotland, Ireland | Aust / NZFiji | EgyptAntarctica |
Additional Travel Areas | ||||
Canada Ottawa sites Quebec – Northern BC – Interior and Northern Alberta, including Waterton Glacial Park Saskatchewan Manitoba Newfoundland – rest of island, Labrador Yukon NWT, including Nahanni National Park Reserve Nunavut PEI again New Brunswick again Cape Breton again Nova Scotia again | USA Grand Canyon Vermont New Hampshire New York New Orleans San Francisco + San Diego California – Route 1 Alaska Boston Chicago | Latin and South America Galapagos Belize Chile (including Patagonia) Argentina (including Patagonia) Peru Costa Rica Brazil Cozumel (sinkhole) Falkland Islands | Caribbean St. Lucia St. Martin Dominican Windward / Leeward Islands San Andreas Curacao Cayman Islands | Western Europe Spain Greece Italy – Rome, Ortona, Venice Portugal Austria Germany Nordics Iceland France UK + |
Eastern Europe Russia (St. Petersburg) Czech Rep. Ukraine Hungary | Western Asia ‘Stans? Nepal | Eastern Asia Thailand Andaman Sea (sharks) Malaysia Vietnam Laos Japan China Mongolia Tibet | Oceania, South Pacific Australia New Zealand Kiribati (diving) Diving atoll Fiji Polynesia | Middle East, North Africa Egypt Nile Morocco |
South Africa Kenya / Kilimanjaro South Africa Victoria Falls Seychelles Madagascar | Northern and Southern Poles Antarctica Arctic |
That wraps up the priority-setting in each of the areas. Now I just have to figure out how to pull it all together visually, and set up regular tracking! Oh joy, oh bliss, oh joyful bliss!
