My new friend Ellen Weber of BrainBasedBusiness in upstate NY ‘tagged’ me with an idea. For those of you new to the blogosphere, (Hey! I just learned about this yesterday, myself), a tag is a way for bloggers to put a link on their writings. Clicking on the tags, then, takes the reader to the others. Something like that…

Anyway, I am going to try this. There are now dozens of bloggers who are doing this same assignment and it is humorous to see what is being said.
The turtle meme. A couple of people, William Tully and Robert Hruzek, came up with the idea. We all have goals, some we write down, some we don’t. Some goals are wishes…”I hope I win the powerball!” Others are, life goals and BIG…”I want to be rich.” Their idea was to ask people what their goals were that never made any of their lists. These goals were just too ‘out there’…but things that would still be awesome to accomplish.

So, here are my goals; unspoken and un-acknowledged til now.

1. Play catcher for the New York Yankees. Seriously, I could still do it. Although I am reminded of the joke about the ten-year-old boys who knocked on little Joey’s door and asked if he could come out and play baseball. His mom supposedly said then, “why boys, you are being cruel, you know Joey can’t play since he has no arms and legs.” “Oh, no,” they said, “We don’t need him to play, we just want him to be second base.” I could get out there, assume the position, and hope no pitches are thrown.

2. Write a book about similes. Not smiles, similies. Have you ever noticed how some people, generally it’s your old Uncle Al, who can always illustrate something with some offhanded comment. Like—”He’s like the grandpa we all used to have who just sits there at Sunday dinner embarrassing us all.” Or, “busier than a one-armed paper hanger.” Or, “you can’t clean the garage with the Winnebago parked inside.” Someone needs to be writing these all down, right? I know it would be hard there are so many of them, and how to organize them all…it would be like tying up 100 cats to tow your car, they could do it, but the reins management would be awful. Ok, I’ll quit.

3. Know the contrarian view of every popular argument. Actually, I need to work on this one. Like global warming. It just smells wrong to me. I mean if all of Hollywood and Al Gore believe it, isn’t that a sign that just maybe maybe maybe it might not be right? I need to read more. Or, maybe I just need to remember more of what I do read.

Ok, that is all I have time to write now. Sorry.

Here are the rules of this Turtle Meme:

make your post and refer back to this one. Tag one, two, three, five, ten – number doesn’t matter – members of your community. You need to tell them they are tagged. Then copy the list of those already tagged to the end of your post. I have no idea how it will work but lets see if turtles move )

William Tully, Bob Hruzek, Liz Strauss, David Armano, Matthew Stibbe, Karin, Bob Glaza, Cord Silverstein, Robyn McMaster, Cam Beck, Sandy Renshaw, Jodee Bock, Troy Parkinson, Phil Gerbyshak, Debbie Call, Jane Greer, Pam Thomas, Ben Yoskovitz, David Reich, Anna Farmery, Ellen Weber, Cody McKibben.

New tags: Toby, Paul Epps, Nick,Dan Heath

What unspoken goals do you have?

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