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My 3 month goal (90 day goal) to create dance steps. My adution goal is to create steps to one tune a week. I am going to use the Album Brightly or Darkly by Nathan Gourley & Laura Feddersen. I am going record some of my improvisaional session and then once I have a step that I can repeate on right and left side I will record a woodshed session with that step.

I will track my time and get a since of how much time it takes me to create these steps. And adjust my goal from there.

Here is my journal for this 90 day goal

• 1. Sir George MacKenzie / Monaghan Twig / Seán Sa Cheo 03:10
• 2. An Spailpín Fánach / Step It Out Joe 03:12
• 3. Pride of Roxbury / Paddy Joe Tighe’s / The Road to Town 03:40
• 4. From Galway to Dublin / The Harp and Shamrock 03:50
• 5. Maeve’s / Dinny O’Brien’s / Carraigín Ruadh 04:18
• 6. Allistrum’s / Ned Kelly’s 03:52
• 7. The Maids of Mitchelstown / Callaghan’s 02:44
• 8. Joe Bane’s / Ah Surely 04:27
• 9. Matt Peoples’ / The Rookery 03:06
• 10. I Ne’er Shall Wean Her / Hardiman’s Fancy 03:21
• 11. The Haymaker / Return to Camden Town / My Maryanne 04:26
• 12. Humours of Glynn 03:57
• 13. Kitty Got a Clinking Coming From the Fair / Flowers of Red Mill / The Strawberry Blossom 03:12
• 14. Paddy Sean Nancy’s / The Leitrim Thrush / The Holy Land 03:37
• 15. The Morning Thrush / Spike Island Lasses 04:08
• 16. Collier’s / The Bucks Of Oranmore
• 17. The Whole Album – Endurance Challenge

Dance Journal

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Week 1

• Best Moments List – create a best moments list. This can be any best moments. You can start with childhood, last year, this week. I currently use this list on a regular basis as my gratitude list. In the past I have tried to do a gratitude journal but I never stuck with it and once I started the best moments list I began collecting best moments each day. This list can show you what is important to you and what you are motivated by. Jon Acuff has this as an exercise in his book All it Takes is a Goal. The next step is to look over your list and decide if something is an Experience, Achievement, Relationship or Object. Some might be more than one and that is ok. There is no wrong here. Then take a look at what you have the most of. Working on my goals over the years I have usually tried to give myself a reward for achieving that goal. And usually it was an object. Like losing 15 lbs and giving myself a reward of a new outfit. But I found that I wasn’t motivated by the new outfit or the object and when I look at my own list there is only 1% objects and the majority of my things are Experiences and Relationships. These are the things that motivate me so now I plan an experience with someone as my reward and it helps motivate me. This list also shows me what I want more of in my life and what I might want as goals in my future.
• Looking Forward to List – our next list is the looking forward to list. You can start this my looking at your calendar. What are you looking forward to in the next few days, weeks or months? What are you looking forward to further down the road that might not be on your calendar. As you build this list you might find yourself adding things into your calendar or making dates with friends, planning a trip. From your best moments list is there anything you want add to your looking forward to list. Jon talks about this list helping keep you motivated and positive. When you have things to look forward to it’s harder to be discouraged. While creating this list and the best moments list I found myself reaching out to friends, family and community members to set up tea dates or walks or meeting someone to listen to music. It inspired me to bring more relationships and experiences into my life and I started booking more things in my calendar that give me joy.
• Goal List – Next start creating your massive goal list. You probably all ready have some ideas for this list. Dream big. Put it all on there. Try not to limit yourself. Once you have your list go though it and give yourself permission to eliminate any goal that’s not yours. You might have things on there that you think someone who is shape might do, but it’s not something that you really want to do. One of the ones I had on my list was run a half marathon. I don’t even run right now and the idea doesn’t excite me. It’s someone else’s goal not mine. So I scratched though that one.

This first week we will make a best moments list, a looking forward to list and a massive goals list. These are lists that the writer and speaker Jon Acuff uses in his books. They have really helped me get into the right mindset for inspiration and motivation. Here are my lists if you want to see them. I currently keep a journal in my bedroom and will sit down here and there and add to my best moments list. I am finding that I add something most days and it brings me gratitude, hope, inspiration and joy. If fact my best moments list is on my looking forward to list!

• Maldon’s Best Moments List
  • Here are some questions that might help you with your best moments list
• Maldon’s Looking Forward to List
• Maldon’s Massive Goal List

Week

Homework – test one of your goals for a week.

Goals

• Carrer
• Fiance
• Health
• Relationships
• Fun

Notice what helps you with this goal and as we continue over the weeks. What helps me most is having a time and place in my calendar for that goal, accountability with others, being kind to myself and having a range of what it means to work towards this goal.

Week

• From week 1 we have our
  • Best Moment’s List
  • Looking Forward to list
  • Goal List
• Week 2
  • Habit Stacking
  • Model – your thoughts generate your feelings,
    • Circumstance –
    • Thought –
    • Feeling –
    • Action –
    • Result –
  • Tested goal

Sound track’s “Our dreams are all unique but our doubts are all the same.” Jon Acuff

This week pick a goal for the month. Dump the things you need to do for that goal.

• Easy Medium Hard
• Make an impact

Week

Calendaring

• 3 days is firm
• 3 weeks is fuzzy
• 3 months is fiction

What can you do in the next 3 days that will make the next 3 weeks better?

What can you do in the next 3 days that will make the next 3 months better?

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Books

• All it Takes is A Goal by Jon Acuff
• Atomic Habits by James Clear