Goal Wrap-Up for 2014

Goals from 2014

Revise interWIRED and query – I tried. I did. But the book’s foundation shifted on my twice and I simply don’t think this book is ready. As a result, I’m moving forward with new ideas to keep motivated. I want to come back to Griffin and company, but it may be a while yet while I develop more fo my style.
Write 6 days a week – Overall, this one worked out for the first 9 months of the year. But once my employment resumed, it struggled.
Walk or Work Out 6 days a week – If I really counted walking to the bus, then, yay! If not, fail. I’m turning around my fail-trend eyeing another 10K in 2015, though.
Submit a short story/freelance article a month – Counting freelance articles with my short stories, this was actually a success…but it wasn’t exactly paced throughout the year.
Minimize book and magazine purchases – I did well to minimize purchases… but I still didn’t read much, forcing all of my free time to be about writing. When it comes to making goals for next year, I need to have more balance.

2014 was a very interesting year for me. There was no status quo, no baseline, no normal. Stress came in massive fluctuations that threatened my goals in all-or-nothing kinds of ways.

I managed to nail my Camp NaNo goals twice, but fell short on traditional NaNoWriMo. I self-published a book (Novel Marketing) I hadn’t anticipated writing at the beginning of the year. I freelanced. I took time to reevaluate myself and what I considered to be success.

I’m working on my list of goals for the New Year and I can’t help but be glad to be free of these goals and setting new ones. I found them to be a bit of a burden, set at a time where I was struggling and held lofty ideas of where I would go in 2014. This doesn’t mean that I feel I failed but I didn’t necessarily succeed against my standards of my stressed-out, mentally-recovering, early-2014 self.

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