Fall Writing Restart

Back on track to accomplishing your goals.

If you are like me, you set New Year’s resolutions. I write these goals out in long detailed lists. This goal setting doesn’t always occur January 1st, sometimes the full list of goals and desires do not get finished until my birthday on February 2nd.

But I always have goals written in pencil in my notebook. You might ask why pencil and not a pen. This is because I know a couple of things about myself.

1. I am disciplined, but I do sometimes revise my goals.
2. Goals do change (a bit) as I work.

One way we really begin to dive into accomplishing our dreams is by setting goals. How we accomplish, or not accomplish our goals is having a foundational knowledge of who we are, how we work, what holds us back.

Do you write best in the mornings?

Do you write at night when the house is quiet?

Can you write in public coffee houses, libraries, or restaurants?

Time is like the ocean always moving. Time as a concept is neutral, neither good nor bad. It does continue without us winding a clock, looking at our cell phones. It is one of the reason many writers attribute to not getting their writing finished.

“I don’t have time,” they say.