The start of a somewhat different thing.
I decided on a lark today that it might be fun to blog more this year. That’s the only goal I’m going to official commit to: just do more posts than last year. Which shouldn’t be hard. I’m currently thinking daily or near-daily, and I want to give that a shot, but we’ll see how it goes. It might end up being once a week. Hell, if it ends up being once a month I’ll beat it. It looks like I only posted 11 times last year.
Today is, obviously, the start of the New Year, assuming you go by the Gregorian calendar system. I’m sure a lot of people are making resolutions and all that. I haven’t really, yet. I want to set goals, but I don’t want to rush it, and I want time to properly think them through. Instead of throwing together a list today and then failing in at least one thing on the first day because I didn’t consider my time/energy/spoons enough. Hopefully I’ll manage to do that this weekend.
The real trick of it is going to be managing expectations while there’s still a pandemic going on. It’s a lot of extra psychic pressure, which in turn limits my ability to do as much as I’d like. Even just not being able to get out of the house to go to a coffee shop or something is an obstacle. I used to do a ton of writing in a couple of weekly writing groups at coffee shops, for example. So I’m not going to have access to as many of my mental tools as I’m used to, and will be stressed on top of it. So I should be relatively gentle with my expectations and goals, allow for potential failure (and not let it stop me), and ramp up as needed.
All of that said, there are definitely going to be some themes to my goals this year. I’d like to get back into the writing groove. Like I posted yesterday, I was off my writing game to the extent it caused me to be even more depressed than usual this last year. I still have the wish of making my writing into a career, and I want to take more steps this year to make that happen. Writing more, finishing more stories (important and a thing I’m bad at!), subbing more, all of that good stuff.
I’d like to keep exercising, too. I’ve fallen back in love with running, especially since I’m letting myself run and walk on my runs. So it’s less likely to result in a miserable level of exertion as I work my way back up to being in shape. Plus it means I can slowly train up to running up the steep-ass hill I live at the base of. And explore, because I can take walking breaks to let myself cover more distance. (I did that today. And found out that the fancy streets at the top of the hill don’t have nearly as many intersections as the ones below them, which made it hard to navigate back to my apartment. But I figured it out!) It’s all good for my mental health, which can be easy to forget when I fall out of the habit of exercising. So exercising as a theme, with a big bunch of consistency merged in.
There’s likely other stuff, but those are two bigger themes that jump to mind. I’d like to progress on the podcast, too, and make lots more episodes. And blog, and… See? My eyes are getting much bigger than my stomach here, so it’ll take some time to get everything balanced. Plus I talked about a lot of this stuff in my post yesterday. So I’ll spare you the repeat ramble.
I’ve had a longer day than I intended, so I’m going to wrap this here for now. After all, I had the day off. I should probably actually relax at some point, and it’s getting into the middle of the evening already. See you all here again soon, hopefully. =)
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