Depending on how you approach your goals for the new year, the idea of resolutions can either be overrated, easily broken, or highly inspiring. New year for a lot of people psychologically means a fresh start, a chance to do something new! Use that energy to channel your best and possible self to get yourself on track towards whatever goals you wish to make, then make them!
Here, I'll cite mine as an example:
1) Continue working on my to-do lists daily to keep myself on track for appointments, tasks, and errands
2) Manage my time better so I can fit more things in a single day
3) Spend less time socializing and more time GETTING THINGS DONE
4) Write at least 1000 words daily
5) Exercise six days a week
6) Lose the remaining 5-10 lbs
7) Reduce my overhead so that in 12-18 months, I can be self employed with one of my second jobs
Okay...now that is a LOT...lol! If you have a list like this, find a few goals on it that will help you with the rest and focus on those.
What are some of yours for the new year? SHARE! Do you have a list longer than mine? Do you think I'm insane? TELL ME! :D
Love & Magic,
Adrianne
www.adriannebrennan.com
4 comments:
I love the list! Among mine - usually cast aside in the mad rush of living a life - are:
Read more.
Write with purpose.
Market my writing better.
Celebrate!
May all of your new years hopes and dreams come true.
Fitness and writing, like you! To cycle 100 miles in a day; run a 10km; get my comedy thriller Bunny Ruddington self-published on Amazon; keep on with my short story and article writing so I, too, can quit the day job (on target! woo!) oh...yeah...and learn Spanish. :-)
I managed to work my way towards a 5K last year, then got distracted by other awesome fitness programs, which tends to happen. XD
Been juggling very demanding day job with fitness and writing, and it's...well, demanding. Been working on my organizational skills, which have been perpetually lacking my entire life. The value of a daily to-do list on my Droid is incalculable.
Autumn: good luck on quitting the day job! It's a worthy goal. :D
Jim: yes, ENJOYING life and living are very important things!
I thought a long time in 2009 before I made my first New Year's resolution in a long time. Because I'd never kept them, I'd stopped making them. I resolved then to not allow myself to create any more series until I finished the first book in every series I'd already conceived that I felt was still viable. I've renewed this vow every years since and it's meant a lot of new books coming out for me.
Why? Because when an epub decides they want the first book, then they'll want the others in the series as well. I began with trilogies instead of longer series. So far one complete trilogy, Darkness of Dragons from Devine Destinies is out and another, Dangerous Darkness Series from Red Rose Publishing is out, although I wound up adding two more books to it that I have to finish. And the first book in The Dagon House Trilogy is out from Champagne Books. Plus an editor is looking another series first book. So limiting myself to one resolution did work for me. Jane
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