New Year's Goals

[vg_ford]

So, I finally figured out what my New Year's goals are going to be this year. And since I loved magicnoire's setup, I'm going to cheerfully appropriate it for my list. (Thanks, hon!)

Anyways, I'll post the health goals in a different post, but here are my personal and writing goals for 2007.

Personal:

Goal the First: Remember that I am a Girl.
Yes, this is actually a goal. I have been very much a tomboy most of my life, to the point of the fact that I would refuse to wear: lace, pink, pale green or blue, anything with flowers on it and anything that had a skirt or a dress. My morning routine is 15 minutes, from waking up to showering to walking out the door. And you know what? I'm tired of it.

So in 2007, I am going to remember that I am a girl, and that it's fun to be a girl. Hubby got me some new perfume and new nailpolish for Christmas, and I am going to use it. I'm going to embrace my girlness. I can't dye my hair funky colors anymore (bleah on corporate workplaces) but I can paint my nails whatever color I want. I might even get a professional manicure - something I've never done. I'm definitely going to get my hair professionally dyed - a beautiful red, I think. We'll see.

Goal the Second: Get promoted.
I'm tired of being on the phones. I have several opportunities to get off the phones, and I'm going to see what I can do to capitalize on them. I really think I want to move to our Operations team, and I'm going to concentrate on that.

Goal the Third: Get my house organized.
I am so tired of being a mess. It ends this year. Seriously.

I'm going to concentrate on one room a month. Because January is traditionally a busy month, I'm going to start small, with my bathroom. Then, in order:

February: my kitchen
March: my living room
April: my bedroom
May: my office
June: the closets

I'll keep you all updated on that progress.

Writing:

Goal the First: Finish Belladonna Dreams
This includes getting it critted, getting it revised, and getting it sent out. I've been sitting on this book way too long.

Goal the Second: Revise and Submit Dark Moon Seasons
I want this book in Gwen's hands by May 1.

Goal the Third: Write the outline and rough draft for Last Rites
The deadline on this project is August 1 for the rough draft.

Goal the Fourth: Write the outlines for The Edgewood Trilogy
It's time for me to stop putting Shanna off. Seriously. I want the first book to be my Nano. Which leads us to...

Goal the Fifth: Write Descent into Darkness for Nano.
I'm going to do official Nano this November. Period, end of discussion.

That's it for right now. I need to promote more, and I'd love to take a class or two - but that's a lot right now up there, so I'll revisit this list in 6 months and see what I've accomplished.

Comments

[peartreealley.livejournal.com]

Good set of goals! Best of luck with them!

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Looking forward to your list as well!

[peartreealley.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* I made mine a couple of days ago :)

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Oh Ann, always the overachiever. :P

[peartreealley.livejournal.com]

Just impatient to make goals. You know how much I &heart; goal setting :D

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

Hehehe!

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Haha! Glad my setup was of some use to you. :)

Those look like great goals. I love painting my nails all sorts of crazy colors but I haven't been able to since I graduated from college. Laboratory work is not friendly to pretty metallic nail polish. Constantly chipping or the chemicals wipe it off.

I suppose though I could start painting my toenails, but it's no fun when you can't show them off and I definitely can't wear open-toed shoes to work. (That chemical hazard always looms...)

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

Very true, re: toenails. My feet look AWFUL (need to get some stuff to make them look better) but when they do look better, I'll be painting those as well.

Or maybe I'll ask hubby to paint them.;)

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to make writing goals, but I find that I get too frustrated when they're not met the way I want them to be met...so I think I'll work around it by saying "Okay, NOW I work on [enter title here]...good, that's done...NOW I work on [enter 2nd title here]...and so on. I find that this worked well with Love Like Blood this year! :p

Good luck, hope you meet as many goals as you can! :D

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And remember, just because I list out goals doesn't mean it's the only way to meet writing goals. I'm glad your way is working for you - that's the fun of being a writer!