Fandom Snowflake Challenge Day 13 - 2019 Goals

[mad_madam_m]

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I've been poking at goals for 2019 since the beginning of the year, although I still haven't quite settled on what I want to focus on. (Yes, I know we're almost at the end of January. It's been a busy month, oof.) However, I have a few ideas I'll share:

1. Finish & post part 3 of the Alpha & Emissary series.
   
   1. Bonus goal: Finish the entire Alpha & Emissary series.


2. Finish the first draft of my 2018 NaNo novel.


3. Stop putting things off. I have a bad habit of getting books and never reading them or getting shows and never watching them or not using things I've been given as gifts because then they'll be used up. I want to fix that this year. I want to watch shows that I'm interested in and read the books in my TBR pile and use the bath bombs I've had for a year. Because putting them off and waiting for the perfect time to watch that show or read that book or catch that movie has only resulted in me having a long-ass list of things I want to see/do/read, and I haven't made any headway on it whatsoever. So yeah. Of the list of 30+ movies and TV shows I want to try and watch and 80+ books on my TBR shelf, I'm determined to get through at least half of each this year.


4. More personally, I want to send out birthday cards to all my friends/family members this year. I am notoriously bad at this, and I would like to fix it.

There are other goals I have, but I haven't quite figured out how to articulate them and I also want to be careful about how many goals I set for myself, because if I set too many, my focus will be too scattered and I won't make any headway on anything. But these are some good starting points.

Comments

procrastination

[oldtoadwoman]

Oh, I relate to #3 so much. I had to return two library books unread recently because even after asking for extensions I still didn't read them by the time they were due back. The list of to-read and to-watch and the collection of scented facial scrubs my sister gave me last year that I haven't used up.

Re: procrastination

[mad_madam_m]

My inability to read things in anything resembling a timely manner is why I haven't taken a book out of the library in years. Which is a shame, because 1) libraries are awesome and 2) I need to stop buying books when I don't know if I actually want to own them.

I feel like that gif from The Road to El Dorado, you know, where they're like "Not today. The stars. Not in alignment." except it's with literally everything I want to do. And it's like...you know what? Why the hell can't today be the day?

So yeah. I'm not sure how to make this one specific and measurable, since it's really more of me changing my mindset on things, but it's something I really want to do this year.

Why the hell can't today be the day?

[oldtoadwoman]

new mantra?

Re: Why the hell can't today be the day?

[mad_madam_m]

Bahaha, yes!! :-D