2023 Goals

[earlymorningechoes]

I have historically had a lot of trouble setting goals for myself - we always had to set them in school, as part of the "seven habits of highly effective teens" program and stuff they were trying to get us to do, but I never really put much thought into mine or set things I actually had to work for or try. But I do have things I want to work on this year, and lassarina's goal posts always really inspire me, so I'm going to attempt! A little!

The second Shabbat of the secular new year seems like a good time to do this, I guess?

Annual Goals

Writing

• Write on 156 days of the year. My official getyourwordsout goal is 120 days, which I have made both in 2021 and 2022 (in 2022 almost by the skin of my teeth, it happened because I wrote every day in both September and November). I don't think I'm ready to jump up to 180 days, and I didn't make it even to 75k words last year, so I'm setting my official goal at 120 and my unofficial goal at 156 (which is 13 days per month).
• Edit and publish the Stargate SG1 fic from July of last year
• Finish, edit, and publish the Miss Fisher Whumptober fic that fell off the wagon because of Tag Debacle
• Go back to the two longfics planned for Dragon Age (no specific timeline for finishing or posting, just...to actually do something with them again)
• Write some flashfic (for the writing server I'm in or for comms on DW)

Reading

• Read 90 books! (We're off to a good start, and Storygraph is excellent).
• Read 18,000 pages
• Read some longfic
• Use TBR and Marked for Later more, so I don't have eight bazillion tabs open all the time

Religious/Spiritual

• Be more intentional about davening again
• Read the weekly parasha at least once a month

Other

• Work to get my sleep schedule back to a semblance of its natural morning-person clock so I'm not exhausted half the time and fidgety and uncomfortable on weekends because I didn't get out of bed early enough
• Get up early enough to get dressed and eat breakfast before work at least once a week
• Do physical therapy exercises at least once a week
• Set aside some time (hopefully weekly) to dedicate to learning something new

Some of these are more amorphous than others, but I think I need that right now - I need to remember both that it's good to have specific, trackable goals, and that it's okay to have a vague idea I want to work towards. To those ends:

January Goals

Writing

• Write 13 days
• Edit and post Stargate fic
• Write one piece of flashfic

Reading

• Read 8 books
• Read 1,500 pages
• Start 1 longfic
• Add all currently-open media tabs to the Saved list they belong on

Religious/Spiritual

• Read Parashat Shemot, because we're starting Exodus and it's a good place to start again

Other

• Go to bed on a weekend night before 11 and get out of bed by 9 at least once
• Get dressed and eat breakfast before work at least twice
• Physical therapy exercises at least once a week (not counting PT sessions)
• Make some dang Hebrew flashcards

That...looks and feels like a lot, but I've already started on a lot of it! Basically everything that's listed for January is something I've already done before, have already started, or am confident in my ability to do (but not to the point that it's not something that'll challenge me).

Here I come, 2023!

Comments

[lassarina]

Good luck!