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“Most of the Bay shoreline is publicly owned, and all of it should be made into a state park,” Grcar said. “The state park system is best equipped and financed for such an undertaking. It is high time we had a state park, and a big one, for the Eden Area.”

Other items on Grcar’s to-do list include support for online voting to prevent rigged elections and ending the county’s pandemic emergency powers. When asked about his stance on unsheltered families and the housing crisis, Grcar pointed to his ideas to keep companies to increase their working wages, which he says would help with the rising cost of buying a home.

“Developers want to build expensive, ‘market rate’ homes on open space, while they want to shoehorn ‘multi-unit’ homes (a.k.a. small apartment buildings) into existing neighborhoods, Grcar says. “Recent laws enable city councils to pass-the-buck by claiming, ‘the state tells us to do it,’ and the laws even nullify environmental protections. The state is taking over local zoning and thwarting the rights of citizens to object. We need to repeal those bad laws so that city councils are again answerable to residents.”

California’s general election is on November 8. A primary is scheduled for June 7. The filing deadline is March 11, 2022.

L-R: Dara Chan, ACSO Deputies Hammad & Ogbonna, Al Hearne (RCCS), Calvin Watson, Gary Howard (CVUSD), Claudia Kim, Billie Sherwood, Aaron Lewis, Beto Montanez, Kevin Koo, David Gehrke, Cris Ghereben, Todd Anglin, Randy Vanderbilt, Cindy Torres (CCA), Claudia Ruiz, Janella Anguiano, Thania Anglin, Michael Nelson (CVSAN), David Wilhite, Karishma Khatri & Deborah Cox (Assemblyman Quirk’s office), Julie Sumiki (CVEA President), Tracy Bonal, Kim Huggett.

Chamber of Commerce Welcomes Todd Anglin to New CV Location

Last Friday, the Castro Valley Eden Area Chamber of Commerce joined in celebrating the new location for Todd Anglin’s State Farm Team on Redwood Road at Jamison.

Chamber President Julie Sumiki and members of Assemblyman Bill Quick’s office joined the celebration in addition to many community leaders, the Chamber Board, Ambassadors, Staff, and friends. Don Jose’s Restaurant supplied food and beverages for the event.

Agent-Owner Anglin enthusiastically stated “We are thrilled with our new location in the center of town which is convenient for our customers and where we look forward to helping people better understand “insurance options” which involves protecting and recovering from the unexpected, as well as reaching your financial dreams through a host of financial services offered.”

Chamber President-Elect Anglin also stated “We love our community, and want to ensure people understand their coverage and options BEFORE an accident occurs rather than learning after the incident when it may be too late. We are also thrilled to continue working with our community groups, schools, partners, and businesses from our new hub. We are looking forward to seeing you at the CVEA Chamber’s first LIVE mixer on Mar 23rd at the CV Marketplace (just joining the Chamber), the CV Chili cookoff and parade on May 13-14, the CV Car Show on June 18, and the CV Fallfest on September 10-11 and more”.

After nearly nine years in their prior location on Grove - Center, they look forward to helping your family and businesses with insurance and financial services (including mortgage, NMLS#1185144) at 20235 Redwood Road, Suite C, Castro Valley.

On Tuesday, February 22, 2022, the leadership team members of MOPS (Mothers of PreSchoolers) donned tutus to celebrate 2-22-22. MOPS is an international ministry serving mothers around the world allowing them some free time while others care for their children - a community of moms who encourage and equip one another to realize their potential in relationship to Jesus. Redwood Chapel of Castro Valley hosts this local inter-church group. Information about MOPS can be found at www.MOPS.org. PICTURED Left to Right some of the MOPS leadership: Faith Carroll, Jamie Lam, Chelsea Fourie, Lotus Lee, Julia Rinaro, Alyssa Keifer, Megan Boyd, Marty Krake, Bev Mayne and Josie Warneke.

Goal Setting: Three Steps to Getting to Your Destination

By Kevin Koo

SPECIAL TO THE FORUM

In the last article, I took you through an abbreviated version of the Wheel of Life where you evaluated the financial, professional, romance, physical, and social domains of your life.

If you did the exercise already, I have a question for you. What area would have the greatest impact on your quality of life if you increased it by one point?

Once you’ve determined what area of life you want to improve, the next logical step is to start setting goals, which is the focus for today.

I’ll be talking you through how I set my goal from the physical category.

Goal setting can be a tricky thing because there are a few critical components necessary to see the success that gets forgotten or glossed over. I want to talk about three parts today.

The first part is why the goal is important. If you don’t know why you want to achieve the goal, it’s way easier to lose motivation and give up. So, let’s say I want to lose weight. Why do I want to lose weight? There are lots of good reasons, but for me specifically, I have a young son (almost 3 years old) and he’s starting to run pretty fast.

However, he still lacks some street safety skills. There have been a couple of times where he’s run out a little too far and thank goodness there were no cars around… otherwise something terrible could have happened.

That’s a pretty good reason to lose some weight, right? So, I can run fast enough to protect the loved ones in my life.

The second part of goal setting is specificity. How specific you are will help find success.

So instead of saying you want to lose weight, give a specific number. Even better, write about how you feel rather than how many pounds you lose.

My physical goal is to feel agile, quick, and flexible, all things that I think would be useful in the example I gave above. If I feel that way, I’ll probably lose some weight in the process, but the weight isn’t as important as how I feel.

I can strengthen this aspect by meditating or visualizing what agile, quick, and flexible feel like, but we’ll talk about that another time.

The third part is how this can be accomplished realistically. The stereotype is that you go a little too hard at the gym, become sore, and never go back again until next year.

For me, I’m looking at playing tennis twice a week. Why? Because tennis is a sport I love to play, but also there is a focus on speed, agility, and flexibility.

Also, playing twice a week will give me enough time to recover the rest of the week. As I get in better shape, I can increase how often and/ or how long I play. Also, I’ve scheduled in time on the other days to work on flexibility and recovery.

Let’s say you’re focused on finances, and you want to save more money. Why do you want to save money?

Maybe it’s because you grew up poor and you’re tired of living paycheck to paycheck, so you’re determined to be financially stable to actually retire one day.

How much money are you going to save? Maybe you talk to a friend who is good with their money, or you meet with a financial planner and figure out your number for retirement. Awesome. So how do you get there?

Maybe you’re putting away $50/month for now but look at working some extra hours or picking up a side hustle so that number can go up faster.

That sounds much easier to accomplish than thinking you’re going to put away $1,000 a month for the next 30 years and end up with a couple of million dollars in retirement.

Does this make sense? Try writing a couple of goals out with these three pieces in mind and let me know what you come up with. You know how to find me.

Kevin Koo

Kevin Koo is a professional coach who specializes in personal, business, and leadership development. Contact him at kevinkoocoaching@gmail.com