2015 Goals: Final Check-In & Wrap Up

I can try my best to hold on to 2015 but I have a feeling 2016 is going to march in all the same come January 1st. Where on earth has all the time gone!? I know I say that every time I touch on my goals, but come on. The year is finito in six days. Yowzers.

It’s been a topsy turvey one, as usual, but I feel like I kept my goals in my sights this time around. I wasn’t as diligent as I really could have been, still I didn’t let them fall to the wayside either. I’m content with how I did.

Here are the goals I think I excelled at over the past 12 months and am checking off as completed:

For every 4 “new” books I read I want to pick up an “old” book off my TBR shelf.
Continue going strong with Anxiety Ink –we’ve all been all over the place this year, however, we’ve all managed to keep up our commitments to the blog. Good work ladies!
Walk/bike/exercise more for better energy and health –I have made enormous strides exercise-wise this year. And I feel pretty good because of it. I have a few personal goals regarding fitness come 2016 so that should help me keep it up!
Be accountable: put everything on the calendar, make time, and budget accordingly –I did really well with this goal this year, I’m really happy about it.
Be POSITIVE –another difficult task I took steps to work at over the year that showed legitimate payoff.
Keep the personal website going –it’s a goin’!
Get my current WIP RA1 done by the end of the year and continue work on other projects! –this one was very recently accomplished but it’s given me momentum that I intend to carry on into 2016. Kate and I set a deadline and I plan to clean up my manuscript for it. This is a goal I have been waiting to cross off my list for a long time. I had to amend “WIP” too because I have so many projects I’m moving between that I can’t refer to them as merely WIP anymore.
Participate in NaNoWriM0 2015 –I participated, won, finished RA1 and started RA2, and got my writing mojo going again. I conquered this one.

Now for the goals I wish I’d worked harder on and can’t in good conscience check off:

At MINIMUM I want to double the amount of books I read in 2014 –I did fine this year and finished 44 books (likely 45 tonight), and I figured out why my annual number is so low. I figured it out too late though. This one bugs me more than I care to admit.
Take time to go outside and breathe a few times a day –as I did with being more positive, I need to take active steps with this one.
Don’t take on more than I can handle but push my limits comfortably –I have too many things in my life making me anxious that don’t need to be. I need better coping mechanisms or to get rid of them entirely. So this goal needs more work.
Shop my literary stories around –I submitted one and heard nothing. I need to get my butt moving again.
Be greener –I can do better.
Be more driven at work –2016 needs to see me take better steps at the day job because I think it’ll help with the writing work I do. Dedication is dedication and I take satisfaction in a good job. I can do better all around.
Write. As often as possible. Fill in all the pages of my word tracker -2016 will see this change, I vow it.

Then here are the goals I let slip badly, I hang my head in shame:

Edit and submit my story for the latest anthology I’ve been invited to participate in –radio silence from the group has seen me completely ignore this goal. I still want to polish my story because it’s a good concept, I think.
Shop “Brew Disaster” around until it’s picked up –I ignored this one, plain and simple.
Make dinner twice a week –I ignored this one, too.
Show more presence at ARWA: get to more meetings and continue working on the newsletter –while I think I play a good role newsletter wise I haven’t made a meeting this year. Oops.
Read two Shakespeare plays –again, this is a time management issue for me. I really just didn’t make time to read the plays and now I’m out of time. I’m totally bummed about it, too.

Like I said, January is right around the corner and some of these goals are such old hat for me I don’t think they’ll grace the list this year, which is awesome as far as I’m concerned. I’m in a good place and I’m ready to tackle this New Year. 2015, you were hard and fruitful and went by way too fast.

I’ll finish with a Merry Christmas if you celebrate it since it is the 25th . I hope you get spoiled, eat too much, and connect with or avoid lots of loved ones, whatever you prefer.

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