Its a New Year-2014. I understand the reasoning of using the January 1 date to make resolutions for the New Year. I really do and it in itself is not a bad idea. We need goals. We need to make promises to ourselves and reaffirm commitments and keep them. But I did not make any resolutions that I was not likely to keep or that in a few months my determination would wane, I can't say that I really made any resolutions, nothing new anyway. Most of my goals have spilled over from 2013 to flipping the calendar to 1 Jan of 2014. That isn't to say that I didn't try to complete some goals or projects by December 31, I did. It gives me that extra push.
I work with lists. Maybe I am to organized but I still write out my goals, my to do's. It gives me a visual. I like that, maybe I need that. I work with lists whose time does not always coincide with the months and dates and years of the calendar. It is constantly being revised, deleted when completed and a new one added. Maybe a new one is added before one is completed. It keeps me focused. I can not think of a time that I did not have goals or a list of do's.
It is like spring cleaning, which I still do, but it is not marked by the calendar telling me it is the first day of spring. It is not going to get erased off my annual list. But I know it will be spring when I do it. And that is okay as long as that is my goal.
We needs goals. We need a plan. Most of my goals can not be marked on a calendar for a specific day as I would write down appointments or the days that I am teaching a class.Time does not discriminate with the last day of an old year or the first day of the New Year and I just can not wrap up my goals timely to fit the mark of a New Year. It is okay if we use the first day of the new year to examine our goals or to add new ones but we do not erase our current goals so it is equally okay to flip the calendar and keep working the list.
Lately my goals are more of the black and white variety of ink and paper, of reading and writing. Submit that article; finish that story; do the research to finish story; read those books, new PP for presentation. And yes, write on blog.
Happy New Year!
