Freedom from Resolutions

There’s been some years where, here on the blog, come January, I’ve talked about some grand plan I had for the new year.

I think the last one was the year I was going to finish all the books I’ve started and not gotten through. Do you know how many I read off my list? Not a one.

And one year I gathered a posse of other creative types and was going to check in on them all year, to make sure they were accomplishing what they wanted to get accomplished and give them encouragement along the way.

Which lasted til March.

I doubt I’m the first person to discover that, despite the best of intentions, resolutions are hard. It’s hard to do anything for a full year, and it’s hard to get going on something that you don’t really want to do in the first place (which reminds me, I should do some yoga here in a minute).

So this year, I’m not bothering. No diets or new exercise for me. No grand goals that may or may not be reachable.

Instead, I made a schedule. And the schedule goes more or less like this:

1. Finish editing project
2. Finish writing project
3. Edit a different project
4. Write a new project

There! That’s it. And, in theory, it would go on ad nauseum but I’m estimating that’s about how far I will get in a single year. And in further estimation, current editing project should take me to Feb, writing project will go through March, probably, and then the editing project shall no doubt take from March to Oct/Nov because I am a slow and very thorough editor. Which leaves the end of the year for writing and shall be lovely.

Now, if everything takes longer than expected? Oh well. The point is to be working consistently toward getting things done. And I think, in the long run, that’s all that really matters.

Any fancy resolutions this year? What are your plans?