I need to become accountable for several areas I’m working on, so I’ve decided to post periodic status updates with my goals and goals achieved. I will hopefully do this every Monday. If I forget, you have permission to nag me! Since this is the first post on this topic, I’ll post my goals for the coming week. Next week, I will update how the week went.
- Physical: I wish to lose 60 pounds. Thus far I have done nothing to accomplish any weight loss. This week my goal is to cut out junk food and exercise at least 20 minutes per day. Plus, I need to begin drinking water daily.
- Writing: This month I had serious computer issues for 10 days and became very frustrated and depressed, but now I have no more excuses–my sweet husband (a.k.a. Santa Claus) bought me a new Mac for Christmas a few months early. BUT all I’ve done since we set it up a few days ago is play with the dashboard widgets! This week’s goal: to finish polishing the sample chapters and proposal and submit it to my critique partners. After the conference, I learned from several paid critiques that my WIP was not as finished as I thought (Ha!), and I’ve pretty much scrapped everything past the first few chapters. So…I’ll be using NaNoWriMo as a motivating tool to finish my WIP. That means my daily word goal is 1667.
- Spiritual: With such high aspirations for physical and writing areas of my life, I’ll need to seek encouragement from the Word as well as prayer. Plus, I have so many friends with dire needs–health-wise and otherwise. I must not neglect the important things to make room for the urgent.
- Habits: I need to quit goofing off with my new "toy" and realize my husband bought this computer to be used as a working tool. I am grateful for his gift and I need to use it wisely.
If any of you wish to add your goals to the comments, we can pray together as we seek to serve Him in our writing and in our daily lives.
