Thanks to everyone (Steph, Shan, and
Gloria) who made suggestions on my last post regarding their
approaches to setting goals...
I shall indeed plan to build on my past
success (French, physical fitness) and work on areas where I didn't
do so well last time around.
But, as usual, I'm going to build my
goal set in a format that should appear familiar to anyone who's
followed my past ROW80 adventures.
WRITING
- Post one Chapter of The Perfidious Mister Wickham each week.
- Post at least one ROW80 update
- Post at least once on my
GypsyDangerously blog
- Finish The Artillerists (short
story)
- Finish Ho B-52 (short story)
- Finish Merry Christmas, Mister
Washington (short story)
PUBLISHING
- Publish Ho B-52 (short story)
- Start the Parasol Books imprint
FITNESS
- Run two 5K races
- One yoga class per week (flexibility)
LANGUAGE
- Teach French for 2 hours per week
- Teach Indonesian for 2 hours per week
SOCIAL
- Begin dating
- Go on 5 “bucket list” adventures
NETWORKING
- Spend 5 hour per week on Social Media
(Twitter, FB, blogs, etc...)
- Join Lowcountry RWA
NEW ECONOMIC
- Join Air B&B
- Reduce my personal carbon footprint
It's an interesting set of goals, for
an interesting time. So, I do hope you'll join me here occasionally
to see how I progress through the next few months, as winter comes to
the Lowcountry and my cozy little boat rocks gently at her moorings.
That's an awesome list of goals! I wasn't sure about your time frame, though. You'll see your progress more clearly if your goals are broken down into what you can do during a week. However, at least you know what you want to get done. So many people just drift along. Keep us posted on how you do. Best wishes for this week's success!
ReplyDeleteFive hours a day on Social Media? Wow! I can't speak for your situation, but if I were to spend five hours a day on social media, I wouldn't get anything else done all day.
ReplyDeleteAs for the rest of your goals... they look good, Edward. Expansive, interesting and good for the long haul. Hope to see great things happening here as the ROWnd progresses.
Thanks for the comments!
ReplyDeleteFirst, I should note that it was supposed to be "5 hours per week" - not per day... Ooops! Thanks for catching that - I went back and corrected that goal... As for the time-frame, Kathrese, you make a great point about focusing on a week's worth of progress at a time. I'll make an effort to address that in a coming post! Thanks for the good wishes, and the same back atcha!