It's 2013! Here's hoping that 2013 is a more peaceful, restorative, and inspiring year than 2012.
Without further ado, I'll finish up my #WEverb12 today. December got much busier than I anticipated, so I had to pick and choose which prompts to answer. Travel, holidays and other things just got in the way of my irregular blogging.
So, Day 31's prompt:
31: aspire [GROW]
What is your biggest aspiration for 2013?
This one is superbly easy for me. Obviously, I want to write and I would love to be a published author. Therefore, my biggest aspiration would be to find myself an agent and get going on the road to publication.
Of course, every time I look at my novel-in-progress, I throw up my hands in despair and just want to walk away. Honest-to-goodness, I love it, but it's a scourge upon my existence.
How can I feel that way? Well, I've been working on this particular novel off and on since 2008.
Yikes. It's really been that long. Of course, only the past three years have I been seriously embarking on quality writing and revisions. Prior to that, it was a story that I began as an act of escapism. One of those novels which I wrote during college classes when I should have been taking notes.
Funny, but that's how I always used to write. Now that I'm out of college, I've become more serious about my writing, and this includes thinking about plot and plot holes, characters and characterization, as well as general readability and, lately, outlining. I suppose if I want to be published, someone other than myself needs to want to read what I wrote.
So, by far, my biggest, most looming, absolutely most frightening goal for 2013 is to finish my novel in progress. And I mean really finish it--so that I'm happy with it.
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18.12.12
Soaking Up the Lessons of 2012 (WEverb Day #18)
Wow, I really got behind in #WEverb12. I could attempt to catch up, or I could ramble on about what's been keeping me from the blog, or just answer today's prompt instead...
Every once in awhile, I mentally hit a brick wall. The past week has been like that for me. I've been so inexplicably exhausted mentally, that I have accomplished nothing. But I've given into my desire for avoiding all adult responsibility with the thought that I am preserving my sanity by doing so.
Anyways, back to today's WEverb prompt:
18. soak [LISTEN]: What have you soaked in this year? (Baths, sun, ideas?) How did it affect your mentality?
I have been actively seeking to be a better writer this year. Well, I would say, for the past couple of years, that's been my ultimate goal.
At the beginning of 2012, I set a lot of goals (read: New Year's Resolutions) for myself, most of which I didn't meet. Some I did okay on, others were out of my control and others I blatantly gave up on or forgot about (such as being more patient with my anxious dog, or giving up soda).
In hindsight, they were all good goals to have. But throwing them all at myself at once was perhaps not the correct way to go about it. So over this past year, I've realized that I need to set more reasonable goals at more reasonable pace.
I've been thinking about resolutions for 2013, and I think what I want to do is set one goal per month for the year. The idea is to accomplish one goal a month, adding a second goal for February after accomplishing one in January. At the end of the year, I'll (hopefully) have accomplished 12 goals, one for each month.
I think if I plan this, my goals will be attainable. Although, I'll have to set goals that can be measured as attainable. I.e. no soda for 30 days, or read 6 books this month, or eat a salad for lunch every day for 30 days, only drink Starbucks 3 times a week, etc.
Instead of setting the goal: read more books this year (which has no real measurable content, since I didn't keep track of how many books I read last year), I want to set a goal of reading 60 books next year (5 books a month!).
I am a goal-oriented person, but when I cannot measure a goal, I cannot tell whether I've obtained it, and I lose interest in it. Also, I think I need to give myself some sort of reward when I obtain my goal...I like getting rewarded. So this should be like a day off of everything, or treating myself to something I've been wanting.
2012 has taught me that I need attainable goals, measurable goals, and rewards for meeting those goals.
So with that in mind, onward to 2013!
Every once in awhile, I mentally hit a brick wall. The past week has been like that for me. I've been so inexplicably exhausted mentally, that I have accomplished nothing. But I've given into my desire for avoiding all adult responsibility with the thought that I am preserving my sanity by doing so.
18. soak [LISTEN]: What have you soaked in this year? (Baths, sun, ideas?) How did it affect your mentality?
I have been actively seeking to be a better writer this year. Well, I would say, for the past couple of years, that's been my ultimate goal.
At the beginning of 2012, I set a lot of goals (read: New Year's Resolutions) for myself, most of which I didn't meet. Some I did okay on, others were out of my control and others I blatantly gave up on or forgot about (such as being more patient with my anxious dog, or giving up soda).
In hindsight, they were all good goals to have. But throwing them all at myself at once was perhaps not the correct way to go about it. So over this past year, I've realized that I need to set more reasonable goals at more reasonable pace.
I've been thinking about resolutions for 2013, and I think what I want to do is set one goal per month for the year. The idea is to accomplish one goal a month, adding a second goal for February after accomplishing one in January. At the end of the year, I'll (hopefully) have accomplished 12 goals, one for each month.
I think if I plan this, my goals will be attainable. Although, I'll have to set goals that can be measured as attainable. I.e. no soda for 30 days, or read 6 books this month, or eat a salad for lunch every day for 30 days, only drink Starbucks 3 times a week, etc.
Instead of setting the goal: read more books this year (which has no real measurable content, since I didn't keep track of how many books I read last year), I want to set a goal of reading 60 books next year (5 books a month!).
I am a goal-oriented person, but when I cannot measure a goal, I cannot tell whether I've obtained it, and I lose interest in it. Also, I think I need to give myself some sort of reward when I obtain my goal...I like getting rewarded. So this should be like a day off of everything, or treating myself to something I've been wanting.
2012 has taught me that I need attainable goals, measurable goals, and rewards for meeting those goals.
So with that in mind, onward to 2013!
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