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It’s a new year, and the online world is blooming with bloggers stating their New Year’s resolutions. I don’t have any resolutions. To me, New Year’s resolutions are like a summer romance; wonderful at first, then incapable of being sustained, then finally a bittersweet memory.
I prefer goal setting. There’s a subtle difference between goals and resolutions. Where resolutions are the intention to do something, goals are the result the efforts are aimed toward. Goals keep me on track with my writing, something a mere resolution can’t do. You may be different. You may prefer resolutions. That’s fine, and I congratulate everyone who achieves what they set out to do in their New Year’s resolutions.
I write my goals down on these goal setting worksheets. I review them daily and use them to guide my writing practice. Most days I seem to find inspiration for writing everywhere, so one of my goals for the year is to post a bit of inspiration to share at my TeacherWriter blog every week.
TeacherWriter is where you can find picture writing prompts, free writing contests to enter, new and interesting writing markets, and tidbits about teaching writing. Now you’ll find inspiration there as well.
If I had to choose a resolution, I think it would be to somehow magically extend the hours of the day so I could have more time for reading and writing, and still have time to sleep. That would be sweet paradise!
I blogged about the same thing a couple of days ago. No resolutions for me!
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Suzanne, that’s exactly the way I roll, too! I divide my goals into certain areas (organization, business, education and writing), hoping that that the end result will be success in my writing year. But I DO kinda resolve to stick to my goals-so there’s a resolution, after all.
Hope you have a ton of success in your writing year, Suzanne! I’ll be checking out Teaching Writer!
Hiya, Cathy! You get so much done, so I figure I must be on the right track if you’re doing it too. Wishing you two tons of success!