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I want to read all of Shakespeare before I am fifty.

I’ve decided to put this project aside for a time and work on the 50th Wedding Anniversary Movie for my parents.

I went to the temple once a week for 10 weeks in a row! After a short break, I plan to continue going weekly.

There are three temples within sight of my property—two under construction.

I’m starting to make some progress on my goal to sing every day. I sang twenty-five days of thirty-one for the month of March.

I’ve been to the temple every Friday for three weeks. That’s a big increase in frequency.

I’m approaching 21 months of being sugar free. I’ve also managed to reduce the amount of Splenda I eat.

I’ve got a long way to go to reach four decades, but I’m still hanging in there with my goal.

I gave a piano concert for my friends on February 8, 2008.

It was a Romantic Enchantment success!

I set a goal to complete four recipes per month. In March I completed four recipes. Let’s see how April goes.

I finished my reading of the Bible by my goal date. I plan to do it again some time, but I have not set up a specific date for it yet. If you wonder how I did it, I had a 4X6 card with the date I planned to complete it which I looked at almost every day. I also had a list of readings where someone divided up the book into daily sized pieces. I noted the date when I completed each reading.

It seems like I have experimented with every task list software there is. I recently started keeping my task list in LifeForm. That allows me to fully specify my day very quickly. I can also see if I am overscheduled. The tasks I enter can then be used on my Balance log where I record the activities I’ve completed. So far it’s working out great!

I completed the Old Testament before the end of 2007. I am now reading the New Testament. I plan to finish it before the end of March.

I am doing a piano concert for my friends on February 1, 2008. The theme is “Romantic Enchantment”.

I am planning to perform the following:

Fuer Elise by Beethoven
Fantasie Impromptu by Chopin
Claire de Lune by Debussy
Reverie by Debussy
Menuet by Paderewski
The Sleeping Beauty Waltz by Tschaikowsky
Memory from Cats
The Theme from Somewhere in Time
The Music Box Dancer by Frank Mills
Beauty and the Beast from the Walt Disney film
Live for Eternity by Wanda West Palmer
Who Can Find a Virtuous Woman? by Wanda West Palmer

Wish me the best!

I have now been sugar free for eighteen months. It was a bit difficult during the holidays. I gained a little weight over Christmas anyway, but I have already taken it off.

It looks like I am going to need a new marketing strategy. I have one planned. It’s a bit expensive, but it will allow me to test market my business.

I went over to a friend’s the other day and worked on a sewing project with her. I have a new project also. I am going to sew some lace around the neckline of a new dress to make it more modest.

I’ve been pretty good about keeping a prayer in my heart, but I think sometimes I forget that it is being heard by God. It degenerates into talking to myself. I also want to be sure that I am being reverent. Sometimes I get casual in my prayer. And sometimes I get focused on things that I do not want. I need to keep thinking about the Law of Attraction and focus on what I truly want.

I’ve decided to keep my daily prioritized task list on my palm pilot. I’ve decided to not fill up my days with a lot of repeat tasks. That gets overwhelming. I am also not synchronizing the list with my desk top. It hasn’t yet led me to blazing success, but I think that’s it’s an important behavior to develop.

I do not think meekness is the most heralded quality in today’s world. We are more concerned with self-confidence and self-esteem. However, thinking back, the times I’ve been in the most trouble is when my pride was biting me. I’ve decided to put away my pride and go for meekness. Meekness is also the quality of being teachable. I want to learn so many things. Meekness will make me more open to great ideas. I want to be able to take criticism, rejection and reproof without my pride getting the best of me. I think that truly meek people are very great. My father is very meek and that is one reason so many people love him. I’m hoping that the quality of meekness will help me to be a better businesswoman. Anyway, I’m excited that I’m reading this book. I’m 50% done. It has already been life-changing. I also read “On Becoming a Disciple Scholar” recently. It also emphasized the quality of meekness, especially intellectual meekness.

I love keeping a journal. I just need to be sure that it does not take over my life. I’ve been tracking the amount of time I spend at it, along with everything else that I do. I want to do it though. Reading the entries seems to really help me.

I was doing so well at my Top 20 that I tripped myself up with my own success. I wanted to get higher and higher scores, even up to over 100. Then I realized that to go up and up and up is not realistic. I’ve decided that a score of 40 or more is an A, any score less than that is a B and no score at all is a C. With more modest goals, perhaps I can keep myself going.