coraa: (didymus)
coraa ([personal profile] coraa) wrote2010-01-04 02:16 pm
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resolved!

I'm pretty happy with how my resolutions went last year, so that's good. But I don't think the yearlong goals is a paradigm that works all that well for me. For instance—my reading through the year lead me to the conclusion that one environmental place that I can make a difference is to reduce the nonsustainable seafood I eat, and replace it with sustainable seafood. But that wasn't in my resolutions; my resolutions focused more on the ethics of terrestrial meat products. Similarly, one of my resolutions was to finish several short stories and submit them to markets; instead, I wrote a YA novel. Which isn't a failure, just a misapprehension of what would be good for me to do.

So. Instead, this year, I'm making the following singular resolution:

Every week, I will make a list of sixteen personal things, small or large, domestic or artistic, that I want to accomplish that week. I will also make a list of sixteen work-related things that I want to accomplish during work hours. And then I will accomplish at least twelve of them. (Why sixteen and twelve? I like those numbers, and they're attainable. That's all.)

I may also make sixteen (total, not personal and work) goals per month, of a larger scope than the weekly goals.

This gives me a bit more scope than simply making daily to-do lists, but also gives me the flexibility to change from week to week and month to month.

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