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Goals – Weekly roundup (#2017-03)

The Writing Life of a Tadpole
January 23 2017

Some highlights from the last week:

  1. Reading – Fiction: 10 books: Finished Cassandra Clare’s City of Ashes and Jeff Lindsey’s Darkly Dreaming Dexter;
  2. Reviews (Books): Posted two new book reviews (old reads, new reviews);
  3. Reviews (TV): 5 new reviews;
  4. Organize: Fixed ebook setup, including backup of all Amazon downloads;
  5. Cyber: Completed 1 backup of docs and pictures;
  6. Writing (new, other): 3 new posts (not including book reviews, quotes, etc.) takes me to 22, passing the goal of 20 — LEVEL ONE GOAL ACHIEVED;
  7. Baking: I’ve been testing various setups with the bread machine, and FINALLY achieved a decent loaf this weekend!;
  8. Career: Organized, moving ahead with studying for written;
  9. Health maintenance: I completed my sedation dentistry appointment (Fun with the dentist…) — LEVEL ONE GOAL ACHIEVED;

Looks like I’m going to have to start thinking about my Level 2 goals sooner than I thought…four of the 29 are already achieved, and some of the others are ones I can’t complete until much later in the year (one will take until June at the earliest).  » Read the rest

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Goals – Weekly roundup (#2017-02)

The Writing Life of a Tadpole
January 16 2017

Some highlights from the last week:

  1. Reading – Fiction: 10 books: Have read just over half of Cassandra Clare’s City of Ashes;
  2. Reviews (Books): I had committed to 15 old book reviews + 5 new ones, but turns out I only had 9 old ones not yet posted…so I’ll change it to 20 BRs to be posted, of which I have done 10 so far, including all the old ones, an additional 4 this week, plus I’m not counting that I did a really good reorg of my ebook files earlier and a tweaking update this week;
  3. Reviews (TV): 12 tweets of shows this week;
  4. Andrea: One NAC outing this week, plus several “conversation” dates where we just hang out in the house and chat…I know, total craziness!;
  5. Jacob: Finished Disney Infinity together, he is over the moon excited — INITIAL LEVEL ONE GOAL ACHIEVED FOR FINISHING ONE GAME WITH HIM;
  6. Writing (new, other): 4 new posts;
  7. Astrophotography: While I haven’t “achieved” anything this week on it, I did have a good exchange with an outreach organizer for the local astronomy group, and he is looking into ideas of how to setup some 1:1 mentoring type actions, including possible AP mentor(s) for me!;
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Goals – Weekly roundup (#2017-01)

The Writing Life of a Tadpole
January 9 2017

Some highlights from the last week:

  1. Reading – Fiction: Finished 2 books, John D. MacDonald’s Nightmare in Pink and C.S. Lewis’ The Last Battle
  2. Reviews (Books): Posted 6 old book reviews
  3. Reviews (TV): 8 new episodes
  4. Jacob: Played Disney Infinity with Jacob, went to FunHaven for outing, golf
  5. Writing (new, other): 15 new posts
  6. Memes: 14 quotes
  7. Photobooks: sorted 2016 photos
  8. Cooking: 3 new dinner recipe
  9. Career: Organized for french written

That’s it for this week…

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Goals for 2017 – Nudging the needle

The Writing Life of a Tadpole
January 4 2017

I have already posted my analysis of 2016 (2016 – Progress on my red goals) and how I struggled through some of the year with health issues and getting my sleep “fixed”. I don’t know that I’m all the way there yet, but it’s an improvement. I’m also going to try something new with my goal-setting this year — combining nudging behaviour with the idea of “levels of success”.

First and foremost, I don’t think I can be as ambitious as I normally am. I have a lot of goals, that’s true, but the sad reality is that I barely nudged the needles last year, let alone moved them. So I’m going to focus on goals that are narrower in scope.

In addition, I find the GREEN / YELLOW / RED doesn’t really lend itself well enough towards a sense of accomplishment — it is more of a way of measuring risk or progress status, not the actual accomplishment.  » Read the rest

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