Goals for 2009
January 2, 2009
Yes, everyone has one of these posts. But instead of a laundry list of all the things I hope to do this year, I’m going at it a bit differently. Every year, I dream up what I want to do, and guess what? 90% of it never happens. The question is, why not?
- Life is messier than it looks on paper. When I sit down at my nice, clutter-free desk, it’s easy to forget that the baby won’t always take 3-hour naps at hte exact time that the boys are ready for some independent time. Kids will get sick. For that matter, I will probably feel under the weather at some point. Crises will happen that require me to drop everything and put out the fire.
- As author JA Konrath reminded me recently, I don’t get to control everything. I have absolutely no control over whether or not a publisher buys my novel, or my next nonfiction book, or the article I queried. Of course, that doesn’t excuse me from putting together the best submission package I possibly can, but beyond that things are out of my hands.
- Goals change. And that’s ok. New opportunities pop up, and sometimes when we follow out our original goals we find that the destination isn’t as rosy as we thought it would be. It’s ok to change course, as long as we do it intentionally.
Of course, I still have a laundry list of things I’d love to accomplish this year. And the top of the list is accepting life as it is, even while I work constantly to improve it.
Posted by Tricia @ 8:54 am in Uncategorized
