Happy New Year! Hello, 2016 Goals

Happy New Year!

2016 has flown in ultra-quickly and while I can’t believe another year is behind us I am more than ready to move forward and embrace the newness.

Like I said on the 25th of December, I’m more than pleased with how my 2015 goals shaped up by the end of the year. I think I got my priorities straight, dug deep, and stuck with many of them. Inevitably, a few were neglected, so they have made it onto this year’s list. I did rephrase a couple in order to better accomplish them.

Over the years I’ve flip flopped between quantitative and abstract goals as I tried to figure out where my strengths lie. This year I did a mix. I added detail to certain goals so that I could measure my progress each quarter, then some are vague because I have an idea of wanting to accomplish something but I’m not 100% sure at this time what that is.  Regardless, I’m excited to devote my time and energy to each goal.

All in all, my 2015 progress turned this year into a bit of a quandary –I didn’t know what I wanted to accomplish! For maybe an hour.

Say hello to my 2016 goals:

Write a minimum of 3 000 words per week, half that for blog weeks. [My desire is to hit 85% of this]
Shop “Brew Disaster” around.
Shop my literary stories around.
Read a minimum of 68 books over the year.
Introduce something new to Anxiety Ink.
Write a new short story.
Learn how to meditate. [Instead of telling myself to relax and go outside each day, which I ignore]
Keep up the exercise to boost energy.
Run 5 km without stopping. [I’m at 2.72 right now!]
Cook more often.
Try something new.
Be POSITIVE. [Staying on the list lest I forget]
Participate in NaNoWriM0 2016 and exceed 2015’s word count.
Finish writing RA2.
Turn RA1 into a readable manuscript.
Read a Shakespearean play.
Be greener.
Set goals for myself at the day job and hit them.
Edit and complete my crow story.
Draw more.

Bring it on 2016. I’m ready!

What are you hoping to accomplish this year?

 

*Side note, two days before this post went up the day job shifted radically. Again. That said, the future looks manageable with my goals, so instead of focusing on the anxiety inducing change I’m sticking to that positive factor.

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