Karen GoatKeeper's Blog - Posts Tagged "goals"
Goals for the New Year
Make New Year resolutions is what people say. In truth those resolutions quickly get broken then tossed aside as failures.
A resolution is so rigid. You will do this. You will not do this.
Such a format is doomed to failure from the beginning.
Enter the New Year goal list. There is no set timetable. Sometime this year this goal will be accomplished. If a snag arises in January, there is February to try again, no stigma, no failure. Life happens.
Even when the list is not quite finished by the end of the year, the goals just shift to the next year.
So it is with my writing goals for this year. I had hopes of completing three books and two drafts. I finished one book and one draft and several rewrites of another draft.
The New Year brings a new writing goal list. That unfinished book heads it. And I hope three more will join it. Then there are two drafts to do.
One extra thing is on my writing goal list this next year. It isn't really writing but marketing. I love to write and know little about marketing which means people don't find out about my books. I want to change that this year.
The New Year officially starts next week end. I couldn't wait. At last I found a way to make free sample pages from all my books available on my website! it's only a PDF link, not a fancy button. But it's done.
Now, what's next on that list of goals?
Happy New Year to everyone. May you fulfill your next year's goal list and have many great happenings to embellish it.
A resolution is so rigid. You will do this. You will not do this.
Such a format is doomed to failure from the beginning.
Enter the New Year goal list. There is no set timetable. Sometime this year this goal will be accomplished. If a snag arises in January, there is February to try again, no stigma, no failure. Life happens.
Even when the list is not quite finished by the end of the year, the goals just shift to the next year.
So it is with my writing goals for this year. I had hopes of completing three books and two drafts. I finished one book and one draft and several rewrites of another draft.
The New Year brings a new writing goal list. That unfinished book heads it. And I hope three more will join it. Then there are two drafts to do.
One extra thing is on my writing goal list this next year. It isn't really writing but marketing. I love to write and know little about marketing which means people don't find out about my books. I want to change that this year.
The New Year officially starts next week end. I couldn't wait. At last I found a way to make free sample pages from all my books available on my website! it's only a PDF link, not a fancy button. But it's done.
Now, what's next on that list of goals?
Happy New Year to everyone. May you fulfill your next year's goal list and have many great happenings to embellish it.
