2015 Goals/Resolutions/Words

Okay, so there are a lot of different ways to make resolutions. I do three different processes.

First, for my writing career, I make annual goals which I discuss with my BFF and fellow mystery writer, Laura Bradford. We’ve been getting together since 2008 when I was just a wanna-bee writer with a bunch of manuscripts I’d started and never finished.

We’d get together once a month for lunch and talk about what we wrote, or didn’t. It was at one of these lunches where we hadn’t got much done the month before that I proclaimed, I could write for 30 minutes a day. And the challenge was on.

Now, we goal online weekly, touch base daily through email, and at the end of the year evaluate our goals and results. The process takes about two hours on the phone. I would bet, if we were doing it in person, we’d need a weekend. :) 

Another group I’m a member of is the lala’s. We came together in 2010 as Valerie Bowman’s brain child after we didn’t final in the Golden Heart that year. We were kind of like the March of Dimes, we had one goal, FINAL. When the next contest came around, we had two finalists in the same category. Then some of us got published, making us ineligible for GH. And the group had to make a decision. What was our charter? It became clear that finaling in the GH was a stepping stone to our real goal of becoming published authors. Now we have all sorts of members, from unpublished beginners, to editors, to small press authors, self-pubbed and traditional. If you have a question in this group, it’s because you haven’t asked.

Our theme for 2015 – The Year We Hustle

I’m going to hold off on my personal goals until my next post.

So do you make resolutions? Annual goals? Do you have accountability partners in the process?

Lynn

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