Goals for 2007

[annathepiper]

It's that time of (the end of) the year again; I see all of y'all are talking about your 2007 resolutions. Me, I feel kind of the same way that filkertom and mizkit do--resolutions are vague and misty things I never seem able to keep. I think that if I call them goals, I'll be a lot more likely to actually do something about them. Here, therefore, are my goals for 2007.

Writing goals

1. Finish Queen of Souls, edit it into query-able shape, and get it out the door. First and foremost to Luna, and if they tell me no, send it to Juno after.
   
   
2. Finish up my planned edits for Lament of the Dove, and get a partial for it out to Tor.
   
   
3. Finish Child of Ocean, Child of Stars by the end of 2007.
   
   
4. Make serious inroads on Shadow of the Rook.
   
   
5. Start querying the agents whose blogs I have been following.

Health goals

1. Remind myself that I'm not bloody well going to lose weight unless I bloody well exercise, above and beyond the walking I do during my commutes to and from work, which is not currently cutting it. Therefore, minimum of treadmill twice a week. Ideally, see if I can work in at least one weights workout per week as well.
   
   
2. While I'm exercising, try not to obsess about whether or not my actual weight is going down.
   
   
3. Drink more water.
   
   
4. Cut back to my prior two cans of soda per day quota, which I have not been able to keep for some time.

Reading goals

1. Clear out at least one of my two shelves of Books I Haven't Read Yet, and try to keep it down to one shelf as I'm buying new ones, on the grounds that I'm running out of shelf space.
   
   
2. Read at least three books per month. More would be nice, but I think I can commit to at 36 books in 2007.
   
   
3. Accept that if I haven't read a book on my To Read shelves in more than two years, chances are high that I'm not going to bloody well read it and I should just give up and take it to Third Place. Unless it's an author I really, really like.

Music goals

1. Add more classical music to my music collection: Vivaldi, Boccherini, and various and sundry other Italian gentlemen whose names end in -i. Also some Mozart and Beethoven. Since I periodically still am songvirused by Mozart's Symphony No. 40, or at least the dumbed-down version I played in middle school, I should damn well own a real performance of it. And also, more flute, piccolo, and/or mandolin concertos.
   
   
2. Do everything within my power to find out who the hell composed that flute piece I played in high school, so that I can see whether I can find an actual decent recording of it and buy it off the iTunes store.
   
   
3. And while we're on the topic of music, play my own instruments more often. I have horribly neglected my guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, and flutes. And I have a whole pile of interesting bouzouki books I haven't even touched.
   
   
4. Get old cassette tapes of mine digitized so I can a) actually preserve the music since cassettes do eventually disintegrate and b) so I can listen to all that stuff again, like some of my better filk.

Home goals

1. Perform at least one act of housecleaning per week. It can be as minor as taking out the trash or recycling, but it damn well needs to be something.
   
   
2. Go through stuff I have stored in various parts of the house and get rid of stuff I know I will never ever use again and which is doing nothing but collecting dust.

Other

1. Revisit my efforts to read through the two novels in German that I have.

Gracious, I have a lot of goals. Here's hoping I'll be able to accomplish a majority of them!

ETA 12:58am 1/1/07: And oh yeah, I forgot one, in the category of Health Goals: make it through 2007 without a Major Medical Adventure. Four years of that in a row is quite enough, thanks.

Comments

[mistwolf.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[annathepiper]

Thanks!

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

# Finish Child of Ocean, Child of Stars by the end of 2007.

Ooooh! Is that the one about which I got to go all geogeeky? If it is, and you have a filtre about it, add me please :)

[annathepiper]

That's the one! And actually, I've moved all my writing over to a separate journal now, annathewriter. It's a Friends-only journal, but anybody I have Friended here is welcome to look at that journal too.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Happy new year, and best of luck to you!

[annathepiper]

Thanks much, and happy 2007 to you. ^_^

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year!

Great goals there.

[annathepiper]

Thank you very much, and a happy 2007 to you too. :)

[gilroycullen.livejournal.com]

Yeah! Another anti-resolution person!

Happy New Year! Merry Holidays! All that other Blather... :>

Good solid goals. I tend to do goals myself, though I do mine in 3 month intervals so I can show progress across a year. :>

Lots of good, healthy thoughts!

[annathepiper]

Happy 2007 to you too. ^_^ Here's to a healthy, goal-achieving year!

And woot for a fellow goals person! I like being able to measure my progress, too--I think this is why I started keeping spreadsheets for tracking my weight and how many miles I do walking, and other spreadsheets for tracking my word count.