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My Goals for October

Kamál (Perfection), 5 Mashíyyat (Will) 175 B.E. - Monday, October 1, 2018

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Prompt for October 1: What are your goals for October?

What are my goals for October? Since I'm not participating in the October NaNoWriMo Prep Challenger, I need to focus on writing and accomplishing some items I've put off. I need to transcribe some older poems to "Poem Experiments"  and "Devotional Poetry" , which will allow me to clean out my desk drawers and some boxes in the second bedroom. I also want to write and submit stories and poems to several of the contests on writing.com.

I need to focus on accomplishing the weekly goals I set in "Weekly Goals for 2024"  by checking the list everyday instead of once or twice a week. The goals in that document are reading and writing goals; however, on some of the reading goals I have not written concrete items. The scripture book I have to finish is The Sufferings of Baha'u'llah. It is not a thick book, however, I only read two or three paragraphs of an evening. Lately, instead of reading, I have composed poetry or drafted blog entries in my pen and paper journal. Therefore, I am going to pause my online work during the day, and read a couple of paragraphs either after lunch or after dinner. After I finish The Sufferings of Baha'u'llah, I want to start The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys by Baha'u'llah.

The only other things, I know, I have planned this month is on Sunday, October 7. That day I will Unit Convention at the Baha'i Center in Las Vegas. Sometime around Friday, October 12, I have to pick up my glasses at the optical shop in Henderson. Sunday, October 21, is the monthly devotional service at the Baha'i Center in Las Vegas. Those are all the place, I know, I have to go this month. That does not mean I will not go anyplace else, because surprises come up or I could decide something on the spur of the moment. In my case, since I have to call the Paratransit bus, spur of the moment means a two day notice, unless I can get someone to take me.