Karen GoatKeeper's Blog - Posts Tagged "new-year"
Plans for 2015
I don't like resolutions. They have this false feel to me. I will do this or that and when it doesn't work out, I failed.
Setting plans and goals is a better option for me. This way, when life happens, they can be amended or postponed.
For Goodreads I have a new book reading goal. Last year I tried for 40 and exceeded it for the first time in years. GR has been good for me. So next year I will try for 44 books.
The plan is to read three books from my own bookshelves and one library book each month. Books over 350 pages amend this plan due to time to read them.
For writing I have a goal of 5 books finished this year. Drafts are done for four so I think this is doable.
However, I do need to plan for next year too. So I want to complete three drafts to rewrite next year.
This year ends tonight. I wish everyone a great New Year. May it have many blessings for you. May you reach many of your goals for the New Year.
Setting plans and goals is a better option for me. This way, when life happens, they can be amended or postponed.
For Goodreads I have a new book reading goal. Last year I tried for 40 and exceeded it for the first time in years. GR has been good for me. So next year I will try for 44 books.
The plan is to read three books from my own bookshelves and one library book each month. Books over 350 pages amend this plan due to time to read them.
For writing I have a goal of 5 books finished this year. Drafts are done for four so I think this is doable.
However, I do need to plan for next year too. So I want to complete three drafts to rewrite next year.
This year ends tonight. I wish everyone a great New Year. May it have many blessings for you. May you reach many of your goals for the New Year.
Plans for 2015
I don't like resolutions. They have this false feel to me. I will do this or that and when it doesn't work out, I failed.
Setting plans and goals is a better option for me. This way, when life happens, they can be amended or postponed.
For Goodreads I have a new book reading goal. Last year I tried for 40 and exceeded it for the first time in years. GR has been good for me. So next year I will try for 44 books.
The plan is to read three books from my own bookshelves and one library book each month. Books over 350 pages amend this plan due to time to read them.
For writing I have a goal of 5 books finished this year. Drafts are done for four so I think this is doable.
However, I do need to plan for next year too. So I want to complete three drafts to rewrite next year.
This year ends tonight. I wish everyone a great New Year. May it have many blessings for you. May you reach many of your goals for the New Year.
Setting plans and goals is a better option for me. This way, when life happens, they can be amended or postponed.
For Goodreads I have a new book reading goal. Last year I tried for 40 and exceeded it for the first time in years. GR has been good for me. So next year I will try for 44 books.
The plan is to read three books from my own bookshelves and one library book each month. Books over 350 pages amend this plan due to time to read them.
For writing I have a goal of 5 books finished this year. Drafts are done for four so I think this is doable.
However, I do need to plan for next year too. So I want to complete three drafts to rewrite next year.
This year ends tonight. I wish everyone a great New Year. May it have many blessings for you. May you reach many of your goals for the New Year.
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.
