It’s a new week and as much as Monday’s kind of suck sometimes, I do enjoy the start of a new week, partly because I get to set new goals. Last week I set four goals and I was somewhat successful. My first goal was to complete three sketches for Minnesota Mermaids, which I did. Sort of. I did three sketches but they ended up being practice sketches instead of final sketches that we can actually use for something. It turns out that the perfect images that I had in my head didn’t translate as well on paper. My second goal was to write 10,000 words for my current WIP and I know that I didn’t make it to 10,000, although I don’t know how many words I actually wrote as most of them were handwritten. My third goal was to read a book. I chose You Are One of Them by Elliot Holt and I am almost finished with it. It’s been a great read, although not what I was expecting. My fourth and final goal was to watch the first lesson for a fashion drawing class that I’m taking online and I did that. It was a great lesson and had some fantastic tips that I know I’ll be putting to use.
Oh, setting specific goals is a good idea! Also setting a time for yourself with writing instead of how many words. I hope that works out for you. I always have to do that to make sure I'm not obsessing on one project for too long. I'll always work and rework something if I don't give myself a stopping point. I'm so happy that you find time in the day to read! I need to stop being so lazy and pick up a book more often. I hope you're successful this week! Best wishes!
-Remi
Someone talked about that in a class that I took in high school way back when so I've always made very specific long-term goals. I don't know why I don't always do that with my short term goals. And thank you! So far I have kept on track with things. 🙂
Crystal, I love how this project is shaping goal-setting for many of the people doing it. I know I am refining how I set my goals and what works for me and it looks like it's the same for you. Awesome! I especially love this new writing goal — you're right — it's not necessarily about the words, but spending the time to write. What a wonderful shift and I love that. I think if we could get at what we're really looking for with goals, we'd be more likely (just people in general) to be more successful. 🙂 YAY!
–Erika
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I'm glad that it's not just me who has had to refine my goals! It was interesting to set a weekly goal and then evaluate it at the end of the week because I was really able to think about why I hadn't made certain goals and what I could do to make it work better the next week. I've always made my lists but I haven't evaluated them at the end of a week. So it was interesting. 🙂