It's that point in the year when I start to pull together the pieces of my annual report to my writer self -- not only to see what I accomplished over the past year but to also note the things I didn't. It's the things I missed or didn't do that will help inform how I proceed going into this next year. It's a great time for goal setting, and if you haven't started to think about that exercise yet or aren't exactly sure where to start, I must defer to Susan Meier, who has shared her workshop on this very topic on her blog. She has posted the workshop in several installments, so if you scroll down her list of posts you will find the earliest so you can read from there and work your way back up.
One of the things I hope to accomplish in the new year is to be more constructive with my posts on the blog. The emotions that have weighed me down over the past year and a half have rendered my posts less useful than I would like, so one thing I would like to do is to lay out a blog schedule for myself that would make my posts more educational and productive. We'll see how that goes -- resolutions and intentions always seem so fresh and doable when the promise of a clean slate emerges . . . then life happens and we make adjustments and do the best we can. At any rate, the blog is foremost on my mind as I consider the goals I would like to accomplish in 2012.
What about you? Are you embarking on some goal setting these days? Please share! I hope the New Year is your time to make all those goals and dreams come true.
Seize the day!
Becca
2 comments:
My 2011 was quite the rough year, so I'm going for a pretty simple goal: to be kind as often as possible. (That includes being kind to myself, incidentally, since I need my own kindness as much as anyone else.)
I don't know whether this qualifies as kind--possibly not, so please forgive me--but can I suggest that from at least this one reader's point-of-view useful and productive sounds, well, boring? I would rather read honest and authentic any day of the week.
I'm sorry to hear about your rough 2011 and I think that being kind to yourself is a great goal. I know it sounds simple, but it can be hard, too. Thanks for your feedback about the blog. We don't always know who is out there reading us and what those readers want to see, so comments like these are always helpful. I hope your 2012 is kinder to you than 2011 was. We look forward to 'seeing' you here more often!
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