Goals for 2015

Okay, so my 2015 Goals didn't work as well as I'd hoped.

Writing: I kind of crashed and burned mid year, but even before that, I wasn't sticking to the writing goals. I also had a hard drive fail in May, but that doesn't excuse my lack of writing in April and March.

Financially, I was on track to get the 50% reduction I wanted until June (I was at 65%, SO CLOSE!), but again, that psychological crash happened and messed everything up. Now I'm at ~ 80%, so a 0.2 reduction on last year.

Travel: This, I managed, even though the bucket list isn't written. I got to Barcelona, Munich, Rome, Venice and Innsbruck, so I really did get out. Not all those were on my Bucket list, but Rome and Venice were, so that goal can be ticked.

So, okay, emotionally it was a bad year - I'm not sure if I'm going to write about it or not - but I achieved some goals and made progress in others, so it wasn't a total failure. I just need to keep at it.

So here goes.

From last year: I'm taking a leaf out of the book of one of Magical Words Bloggers, and creating a set of Goals for 2014, rather than Resolutions, because Resolutions can be failed and forgotten, whereas Goals are works in progress.

Goals for 2015:

1. Financial Goals:
a) Reduce my debt by Half, and
b) Stick to a weekly budget.

Actions:

• Maintain my budget logger

2. Travel Goals:
a) Make a bucket list of cities, sites and London theatres, I want to visit.
b) Visit at least three of those places this year, one city, one site and one theatre.

Actions:

• Write a bucket list of cities and sites I want to visit
• Write up a log of what shows I've attended in what theatres and therefore which theatres I still need to visit.

3: Health Goals:
a) Aim to loose at least 10kg, preferably 20kg.
b) Keep a Food / Mood & Activity / Mood diary.
c) Walk to or From work at least 5 times a week
d) Do Yoga or Pilates, at least twice a week every week.
e) Attend group all year and work on issues / write about issues / make notes on progress.

Actions:

• Set up a Food / Mood and Activity / Mood diary
• Set up a weight tracker
• Maintain my emotion diary

4. Writing Goals:
a) Write 300 New words a day. Doesn't matter what the writing is - blog, stream of consciousness, story, emotion diary, brain fart - just as long as they're NEW words.
b) Finish CM1 by 31/03/2015 and SEND IT OUT TO AGENTS.
c) Finish Draft 2 of CM2 by 30/06/2015 and Get it into my Critique Group.
d) Finish Draft 1 of CM3 by 30/09/2015.
e) Write Draft 0 of CM4 in November 2015.
f) Blog at least once a month, preferably at least once a fortnight.
g) Write one review a month on the Online Writing Workshop.

Actions:

• Set up a writing tracker
• Set up a submission tracker
• Set up a blogging tracker

5. Reading Goals:
Read one fiction, one non-fiction and one writing reference book every month. My fiction reading especially has plummeted in the last five years, but I have no real excuses - I've still bought books, I'm just stacking them up, so now it's time to get through a couple.

Actions:

• Set up a book log

So there you are. Wish me luck!