Goal Setting...ugh!!

Goal Setting…ugh!!

It’s a new year and time to make those resolutions again. I am not a fan of that at all, yet I know through setting goals things get done. But the disappointment of not reaching a goal or having the unexpected arise and delaying a goal have led me to back off setting goals, let alone sharing any of those goals with anyone.

But, I’m going to change that this year. I’m not going to throw out a tedious list of what-I’m-going-to-do’s, but rather just document the things that I am working on and how that’s going. One of the first goals I have for 2015 is to write more. I’m already on track with that by having committed to a short story blog, Lightning Quick Reads. So, I know I will be producing one short story a month, which not only will help me to produce more writing, but fine tune my writing. I’m long winded and write novels. Short stories have always scared me and I’ve steered away from them, but when Kai Strand invited me to join this group of writers, I took it on as a challenge and after sending my acceptance email I started to panic—seriously panic. I didn’t know where to start. I didn’t know what to write about. How could my readers enjoy just a short sampling of words when there was so much more to the story I wanted to tell?

It was a struggle, but I pulled it off. Step it Up, is my tribute to working moms everywhere. It is how I imagine returning to a nine-to-five would be (not every day would be this bad, but still…), now that I’ve been a stay-at-home mom for seven and a half years. I admire all women who balance family and work, whether they work at home or outside the home. Whether their work is paid or volunteer, moms are always balancing a lot. And that’s another big goal I have for this year is to balance it all better. 2014 was pretty heavy with life and not as much of the work got done as I’d hoped.

I remember hearing someone say once how they wished they could be an author, sit around in their pajamas all day and just type away on their computer. Yeah, that sounded good to me too, but that’s not the reality of my life. So, check out this video we put together of me commuting to work. It’s a little different than the picture I paint in Step It Up.

If you work from home or are thinking about working from home leave me a comment or connect with me via email, Facebook, or twitter. I’d love to hear how you’re making it work or answer any questions you have about making it a possibility.