Friday, January 3, 2014

Goals, Goals, Goals...

Ha, well this goal of writing a blog post every day didn't last very long. It sounded good on the first of January! Perhaps I should revise it – to every other day.

It's a good lesson though. And I love those things I can learn and grow from.

  • If I'm going to set a goal, and make it public, I have to follow through successfully. Or else get called out on it. And I do not want that to happen again. 
  • It does make me accountable – either to do what I set out to do (write a blog each day) or to make more realistic goals. 
  • On only day three, I have already fallen short of my goal. However, the good thing is, I am writing something. It might only be a little explanation for my tardiness, but it's something. 
  • When I want to write, I must make it a priority. I can't waste time checking my social media for way too long, or doing anything else that isn't productive in some way. Reading is productive. Thinking is productive. Taking the dogs for a walk is productive. And writing is productive. But going through each and every one of my friends' posts to see what I might be missing – well, that is not the best use of my time.


The good thing is, I now have two blog posts in three days. If I keep this up, I might end up more prolific than I have been in the past. I miss blogging, not so much for the writing part, or the sharing part (which can be a little scary and/or uncomfortable for me) but because when I blog I also check out the blogs of my friends, and I miss doing that.

Let's see where this takes me. 

3 comments:

  1. The cool thing about goals is even if we don't do everything we set out to do, often more happens than without the goal. At least that's been my experience.

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  2. We wouldn't want you to think we didn't care by not calling you out on it. :)

    But even if you didn't post every day, I'd still love reading about what's going on in your life.

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  3. ... it's kind of like Nano... even if you don't make the 50k, at least you have more done at the end, than if you hadn't tried.
    and with that said, I need to return to posting on my own blog! Thanks for that final bit of motivation.

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