As the queen of goal setting, imagine my surprise when I went to look for my 2017 writing goals and didn’t find any! Yes, I had gone a whole year without having any goals written down. How had that happened? I really don’t know. I guess I was busy with other things and forgot.
This doesn’t mean I didn’t do anything writing related last year. On the contrary, I did a lot. I completed a year-long series on my website on the church liturgical year, Seasons of Grace, and used that as the basis for two pamphlets in December. I published the fourth book in my Dancing through Life series and wrote books five and six. I published a non-fiction book, Walking with Families through Grief, and published this book along with Walking with Families through the Dying Process and Still Dancing in audio format.
I attended one writer’s conference and got new covers for the first three books of my Dancing through Life Series and three of my non-fiction books, something I know wasn’t on my radar this time last year. I also took an on-line marketing class.
You might say, since I accomplished all of this without written goals, why bother this year? Because, without a list of goals from last year to check-off, my sense of accomplishment is less. I like having goals as benchmarks to let me know what I have done and what I have yet to do.
So this year, I’m not letting January go by without writing down some concrete goals that I can review at the end of the year.
These are all manageable goals. If I complete them, I can check them off at the end of the year and give myself a congratulatory pat on the back. If I don’t complete them, there’s always 2019!
Happy New Year! What are your goals for the New Year?
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