In which she considers announcing that there will be no more public announcements
Saturday, 4 December, 2010 at 10:55 AM Maybe there are just Follow A Master Plan Religiously people and then there are Deviate From The Master Plan When It Suits You people.
Looking back over that list of declarations I made in early November, it occurred to me that public lists of things I'm going to do may not be my best course of action. For a minute I wondered just what I spent all that time in November doing, since I didn't actually complete a single thing on that list, 100%...
I guess I fall in the latter category, with the people whose Master Plans are just suggestions. Because I certainly didn't take a lot of naps and eat bonbons. What happened, though, to the things on the list? Let's see...
- Maybe I launched all the new websites I was talking about. Probably not all of them, though. These projects tend to take on their own lives. And you have to let them. Sometimes client goals evolve and their deadlines follow. Okay. Just roll with it!
- My Life List has yet to be published. I certainly now have a very long list of Things I'm Pretty Sure I Want To Do In My Lifetime. Last time I looked at it, the list was over 100 items long. But the longer I let the list sit and stew in its own fabulousness, I realized that some things shouldn't be on the list while other things should. I discovered, in November, that publishing a list that soon after creating it would not be doing justice to The List. So we'll revisit that again another day. Not too long, though, I think...
- No NaNoWriMo.
- Ditto on the group writing sessions. Since eliminating that goal altogether pretty much nullified the need to meet with the other people working on the goal I no longer had for myself.
- I missed the NaBloPoMo 30 blog post goal by 2 entries. 28 blog posts in a single month at Wayfarin' Vagabond was huge for me. HYOOGE. But that one still feels like a blatant failure to reach my goal. Since the two times I missed the goal were just because of stupid human error. Pity. :(
- Told you about the big exercise goal over here. I made it to day 21 of simultaneous daily workouts, then lost my momentum. There have been a few days of great workouts since then, but I'm not on a streak right now. Unless you count the cold I've had for 9 days. That's a streak that I seem to be able to keep. But when the cold's gone, it will be time to get back on that horse. Also? 21 executive days of working out? Awesomeness!
- My photos haven't been published in an online gallery. Still. Sometimes I work on them - I'm still culling to make sure I find the ones I really want to publish. And sometimes while I'm working on this project, I'll see one I like and get waylaid, turning that photo into some random graphic for another website project you don't yet know about. It's too much. Nobody should shoot 11,000 photos in 6 weeks. Seriously. But that's what I did, so I have to live with the consequences. And? Yea, I just dropped the ball. I want those photos on my website, but I'm not willing to put up a few at a time, because I don't want to risk stopping in the middle and never coming back to it. We'll surely be talking about this again one day. But not this day.
- No funny pants. But I did find 3 pairs of jeans at a thrift store for $18.50. Dude, thrift stores rock. I had forgotten...
- Oddly, I didn't cancel the Netflix account, either.
November was a lovely month. The parts I can remember, anyway. I worked with fascinating clients, spent some time with my family, ate some turkey, saw some fancy lights while a child giggled, saw some friends, did a lot of writing, worked out, took a few photos, and who knows what else? But now? Now we're well into the beginning of December. The memo I just read said December is going to be even better than November.
However there will be no public announcements about December's goals. I'll just tell you about stuff after it happens. We'll leave the public lists of goals to somebody else...
Reader Comments (3)
Dude, it's all good...you're alive and healthy...now, relax and stop making friggin lists!! Haha...
Sincerely your's,
The list-maker!
You're missing the point of the list, which is simply to feel productive as you make the list. Accomplishments-schoshlipments. Lists are fun!!
I love y'all. In case I haven't said so recently, to either one of you.
Still, I'm learning lessons about how to word my lists when I make them public. Now I should probably go make a list for today if I'm going to actually get anything done...