No More Goals

Last night Nee-chan gave me a much-needed verbal slap upside the head. My method of goal setting just isn’t working. (For examples, start with the beginning of my blog and keep reading.)

When it comes to writing methods, I’m of the “try everything until you find what works and then use it” school of thinking, but I haven’t been applying this to my goal setting. I basically just have a bad habit of doing things like deciding to finish (first draft, revision, and polish) three novels in one year, without actually looking at my average word count per day and deciding if it was attainable. I just decided it was attainable, because you can do anything if you set your mind to it, right?

My right brain is very good at setting lofty goals. My left brain is very good at shutting down under pressure when the deadlines for those goals loom up.

So, instead of just thinking it ain’t broke, it’s time to fix it.

No more deadline goals.*



*Except Nanowrimo, which is an entity of itself, and I’m no longer going to let myself get hung up on the idea of having a nice, neatly packaged first draft at the end of the month.