Goals for 2013
Jan. 3rd, 2013 06:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaneramosAs mentioned a few days ago, I've been thinking about goals for the coming year. These actually fall into two categories: work and personal. I made good use of the 6 Changes strategy a couple years ago for building some good habits, and now wish to reapply it to make 2013 a year of healthier living. Here they are:
6 Changes
To break down number one more specifically, I plan to start eating salad or crudites and hummus for lunch one day a week starting tomorrow (Jan. 4) and add one day each week. To make this more fun, the third Wednesday of every month (starting Jan. 16) I will look up or invent a new salad.
At the same time I need to work out writing goals to discuss with my coach next week. I started brainstorming these in a discussion on Michelle Rafter's WordCount blog yesterday. I'll pin them down here. These are up for review and discussion:
Writing Goals
6 Changes
- Increase vegie intake with daily salad lunch (January/February)
- Exercise 6 days a week (March/April)
- Restore bedtime habits (May/June)
- Instate planned evening snacks to avoid binges (July/August)
- Assess weight and cholesterol and, in case further intervention is required, research the options (September/October)
- TBD (November/December)
To break down number one more specifically, I plan to start eating salad or crudites and hummus for lunch one day a week starting tomorrow (Jan. 4) and add one day each week. To make this more fun, the third Wednesday of every month (starting Jan. 16) I will look up or invent a new salad.
At the same time I need to work out writing goals to discuss with my coach next week. I started brainstorming these in a discussion on Michelle Rafter's WordCount blog yesterday. I'll pin them down here. These are up for review and discussion:
Writing Goals
- To keep sending out killer pitches, write at least four new query letters per month (with lenience during the fourth quarter).
- Design one of the four queries to break into science and nature publications.
- As soon as queries are rejected or after six weeks of no response, send them to new markets.
- Write at least one essay every two months to submit on spec.
- Start writing a book, fiction or non-fiction.
- Learn to use PhotoShop for potential photo essays.
- Continue blogging three times a week on Speed River Journal.
- Figure out what it takes to derive revenue from the blog (this might be a good objective for the blogathon in May).
- Take one week vacation out of every 12.
- Travel at least once every six weeks for assignments and/or pleasure (including day trips further than 50 km, but excluding family or cottage).
