So The New Year Is Upon Us
Now that 2010 is here, I am spending my day making a list of goals for myself. I don’t make resolutions. A “resoulution” is an “act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of action, method, procedure..”, and what I am doing is by no means a determined course of action. I find that in my life, setting out on a course of action usually leads to something other than what I started out to do. So, if I set goals instead, no matter what course of action leads me to the desired result is ok.
Some of my goals are simple, direct things that accomplish a specific task:
I want to clean up my computer, and by that, I DO NOT mean dusting off the screen. I want to get rid of files no longer needed; bookmarks that lead to pages that make me wonder why I bookmarked them to start with; organize folders in some kind of order that make sense, and put the ones I use the most at the top of the list. If I accomplish that, it will make my days infinitely better and help me save time.
I want to get organized in my life. I do so many different things that I sometimes just get overwhelmed with the list. I want to make myself a schedule, so that I have an hour a day to write; an hour a day to sew, an hour a day to play, and an hour a day to exercise. (Not that putting the hour a day on my calendar will actually make me do those things…)
I want to get a tripod and learn to take better photos. If I had done that last year, this photo of the gorgeous blue moon rising over Payne Lake on New Years Eve would have been better than this:
Other goals may prove to be a little harder for me to do, but not starting to work in that direction will assure me that they won’t get done:
I want to move my blog to a hosted website with my own URL. I have some very specific and some other vague goals for myself for this blog, and have already started working towards them. I want it to be the most Fab blog, ever. (Now how is THAT for a goal???)
I want to get my Etsy store up to date, and get all the purty things I sew listed on there for sale. I want procrastination to be a thing of the past.
I have a goal to get all my gluten free recipes sorted out, typed up, and presented in some type of cookbook, whether it is an e-book or a printed one. There are other gluten free cookbooks out there, but I am a southern girl who cooks in a “southern” way. I want other gluten free cooks from the south to feel comfortable in the kitchen, making all those mahvelous southern comfort foods we grew up on, minus the gluten.
I want to make myself a quilt with these fabrics. I have already started it, by cutting all the pieces. All I have to do now is the sewing (HA! that’s easy to say!) I have a baby quilt to make, and a couple of other big sewing projects that I want to finish by spring, but of all my goals, this one will probably be the easiest for me to accomplish.
So, there it is, out there for public consumption, and public scrutiny. Making these goals public will put me at greater risk of completing them. What are YOUR goals for the year 2010?
I have a lot of goals for 2010, too. Your goal to clean your computer is definitely on my list, too. I want to finish my daughter's afghan and have restricted myself from starting any new craft projects until I do. After that, I want to learn to knit socks. I want to be better about using up food we already have rather than buy more. I want implement some kind of morning meditation time, although I'm not sure if it will also include yoga or not. That's just the tip of the iceberg.
Good luck to you…and to me, too. 🙂
I have the same thing on the list when it comes to computer organization. I still have websites listed on which one to buy. I'm about 2 yrs behind on clean up PC. I hope you accomplish all that you have listed. You have a year. lol
That sounds like it will take a full year!
Good luck & Happy New Year!
I don't make resolutions either. But I like all your goals, very doable. And you've given me something to think about. Hmmmmmm…
I don't make resolutions either but I'm sure going to give one of your goals a shot. I'll be sorting through the 200+ bookmarks and the infinite number of "Read Laters" I never read.
Happy New Year!
PS: Trying to find more RV/Workamper/ Facebook friends are you on FB?
I think I call them resolutions only on January 1st. After that, they get put on my ta-do list. After that, if I don't get to them, then my priorities have been rearranged. It's a fresh start though…but it's nice knowing there's always next year!!!
i think I plan to just keep on keeping on this year. I think I was/am on the right track last year so I'll just keep moving in that direction
Oh, your list would be mine, if I made New Year's Resolutions…. I tried the schedule thing and never read my schedule, but it looks awesome on paper, lol. Wishing you better luck with it.
I'd like to make a quilt for my bed out of all the tee shirt fronts from the places I've traveled. However, I don't have a sewing machine, don't want a sewing machine, and don't know where to begin. ;( How's that for a funky goal?
Annie: I made myself finish every UFO I had in 2009 before I allowed myself to start something new. It was really hard to do, but glad I did it.
Jim and Dee: yes,all those saved websites that make you go "huh?" when you are checking your bookmarks is what started me thinking about cleaning up the computer, along with not being able to find the things I "thought" I saved.
Gaelyn: Don't think too hard, if you're like me, it will only add tons of things to the "to do" list.
Yarntangler: Yes, I am on Facebook. I added a link on the blog, or you can search for FabGrandma.
Dee: as long as you make progress, keep it up!
Marcia: I have started using a feature of the MyYahoo home page called "Notes to Self". It is working for me, at least for reminding me of things I want to do. I also use it for my weekly menus. Great tool!
Judy: That sounds like it will be quite a feat if you pull it off!
Outstanding set of goals. Many of my goals are very similar. Here is to the new year wishing you the best
Awesome goals there babe. Especially the cleaning the files on your computer. I am in SERIOUS need of that.
Goals for me? I am writing a list of things I want to do/experience this year. That works better for me.