Last year I decided not to make any resolutions. Considering how the year turned out, 2020 hindsight (do you like how I did that 😉 ) says I made the right decision. It wasn’t a year that was easy to be resolute in. I did make some goals last year, though, and I didn’t do too badly in meeting them.
Heading into 2021 it’s pretty obvious this is going to be another year of uncertainty, so I’m keeping that in mind when I set my goals. And yes, like any good goal, I set SMART goals:
I won’t bore you with all the SMART details, but here’s a bit of an overview of my goals. Life notwithstanding, in 2021 I aim to:
- Continue querying until I have an offer or 100 rejections (hopefully the former, but if not, 100 is my line in sand for parking in the drawer), while I finish writing my new manuscript
- Improve my fitness
- Clean out “stuff” (old/unused/junk) in the house and get rid of it (sell, donate, recycle…)
- Finish landscaping the side garden
- Step-down from my official volunteer positions and achieve better work/life balance
I think that’s a realistic set of goals and I hope I can achieve all this and more, but I need to allow for those sneaky curve-balls we’ve learnt to expect from 2020 which I am sure are going to follow us into 2021.
What are your goals for the year (or do you set resolutions)?
January 7, 2021 at 11:55 pm
Awesome goals!
My goals are to improve my fitness and to focus this year on really paying down my debts. Debts I have smart goals (of course I do, I’m a teacher haha) in place but fitness not so much. Fitness its basically “drink more water, stop being a slug” which is hard during a pandemic in the winter LOL but I’m trying.
January 9, 2021 at 3:19 pm
Ugh, I struggle in winter to exercise as well. I am such wuss when it comes to the cold. I think I would do better at eating wonderfully well in summer then hibernating all winter and burning off the summer excess through my sleep 😉
January 8, 2021 at 1:52 am
My goal for the year is to be more disciplined and stop letting myself get away with stuff. Hopefully the result will be increased productivity. And a quicker pace. Fingers crossed!
January 9, 2021 at 3:20 pm
Increased productivity is something I am always striving for. If I wasn’t trying to do 6 things at once I’d probably do better!
January 8, 2021 at 8:19 am
Funnily enough, we actually were doing SMART goals in the class I covered today. Their assignment was a vision board for the year. (I don’t have any goals for the year. I don’t do them.)
January 9, 2021 at 3:27 pm
That’s funny that you were doing them in class. I’ve always been goal oriented, so even when I wasn’t actively planning goals, I still had them, they just weren’t formalised.
January 10, 2021 at 3:26 am
Those are good resolutions, Anita. I’ve done the first three–and happy I did. Good luck with these.
January 12, 2021 at 10:23 am
Thanks, Jacqui. I hope I get them done – the hardest will be #3 because the Hub and Barbarians make getting rid of things more difficult!
January 11, 2021 at 10:08 am
This is the tenth year in a row that I am trying to control what looks like an insipid beer gut. It’s not, I am a whiskey drinker, but there isn’t a whiskey gut.
January 12, 2021 at 10:24 am
Maybe you should switch to beer, and then you’d have something to get rid of? 😉
January 11, 2021 at 8:56 pm
Wishing you the best in your not-resolutions! It’s been a very long time since I made any, myself, but my hope each year is to submit as much as I can and finish som3 of what I’m writing.
January 12, 2021 at 10:24 am
I dunno, Sue, that seems like a pretty good goal to me 🙂