Really it comes down to two main goals for the year ahead.
Write the damn book.
This is my greatest ambition and one I come to time and time again. This year it is a professional as well as a personal goal including support from my company so it is time to get serious and in getting serious I have identified a few sub-goals.
- One evening a week without TV
- Remove all social media from my phone and half my weekly average screen time
- Write 1000 words a week
- Go on a writers retreat
How will I know if it was a success?
There will be a bloody book of some kind!
Get fit.
Now that my weight and the diabetes are under control it is time to deal with the fact I remain horribly unfit. I didn’t complete the 100 push-ups challenge and didn’t really even get started with the yoga this year. So again I have identified some sub-goals.
- Complete Couch25K
- Do a yoga session once a week
- Do press-ups at least once a week
- Give up beer (again)
How will I know if it was a success?
I will complete a Parkrun or play in a full (veterans!) football match.
As you might expect I have other ambitions — some of them might be considered rewards for progress in my priorities.
Travel
- Visit Miami for Wynwood Walls
- Do my ultimate Busman’s Holiday in May (Ontario > Victoria > California > New York)
- Show my friends around Brooklyn
- In the absence of Upfest go to another UK streetart festival
Culture
- Take part in Inktober
- Watch 20 movies at the cinema
- Read 50 books (including all of Harry Potter in step with my niece)
- Get a tattoo
Social
While 2018 was great professionally and I had some wonderful adventures I was also really quite solitary. I probably saw less of my friends than any previous year (even when I was really down), barely dated and just generally spent a bit too much time in my own head. Not sure what this looks like but it is a note to myself to do better!
- Find out more about the #100people thing Sharon O'Dea is doing and maybe give it a go
