Goals: Am I setting
myself up to learn something new, OR setting myself up to fail?
Every year I set a goal vowing to pay attention to
social media. That includes updating my website, which I do so infrequently
that, each time, I have to relearn how. <SIGH>
Then there is reengaging on Instagram, which I always
enjoyed, and learning TikTok, which I still haven’t tried to tackle. And forget
learning how to work on Twitter – See!?! That is how long it has been since I
thought about conquering what is now X. Even my FB engagement lacks, and
that is what I use the most.
I haven’t just learned that I am horrible at staying
caught up on any type of social media. I have been reminded of that defect in
my character—HA—year after year, when I have to assess my old goals and
reaffirm new goals for a new year. To me, navigating social media is like
trudging uphill, one plodding step at a time, and never reaching the top.
So, as you probably guessed, social media is my least
favorite goal to achieve.
I recently wrote a writer friend of mine about
proclaiming goals to achieve THE WIN, versus setting hopeful expectations for a new year. If you consider every goal accomplished as a win, then what is the opposite? A Fail?
I have always considered goals to be about hope. Expectations
you seek to attain. A mission. Something you write down and tell others, so
that you’ll make a concerted effort to achieve, either by yourself or as part
of a team or coordinated with workplace colleagues.
Seeking Forgiveness:
Some goals, in the workplace or in your community, are
important or essential to attain no matter what. But personal goals… Well, my
philosophy is life gets in the way. If something comes up that is more
important—a make-or-break, a family emergency, or a task in your day job that
will affect the next steps of a project, or even changes in a writing project—well, those intervening tasks must be attained. And at times to the detriment of achieving other goals.
When setting personal or writing goals, I believe there
is room to delay reaching that goal. And, in some cases, it is perfectly fine
to say this goal no longer seems top priority or necessary to achieve this year.
Or this goal can just as easily be pushed forward to achieve at a later date.
Hence, my need to just hit DELETE on Social Media goals. I hope by taking this off my list, I will just wander into achieving that now, unspoken goal, without feeling the pressure. <SHRUGS> One can hope. But one can also be relieved without that added pressure.
Although, in reality for 2024, I believe I have set myself up to most likely “fail” in tasks I have never tried before. It all depends on my energy to learn something brand-new to my toolbox of writerly skills. But they are also skills I have always been intrigued to try. If I can’t conquer how to achieve leaning these skills, at least I will have tried.
Yes, I am setting myself up to learn something new.
And yes, my chances of failing or not totally achieving 5-star competence, is
high. But hey, I’ll still learn something—anything—new. One step at
a time… And, no pressure.
The exciting part of setting “reach” goals is that I
know I’ll probably need a little help along the way from my writer friends. So, watch out—I might be
needy in 2024.
Do
you like the idea of setting annual goals? Or does committing to accomplishing
a long (or short) list
of annual goals give you “hives”?
Moonlighting
Starlight Grille ~ Book 3
A
blast from the past, a ten-year old matchmaker with a valentine wish, an
omission, and a villainous man…a recipe for disaster? Or love against all odds?
Amazon Kindle (only in print as a collection: Starlight
Grille)
Starlight Grille
A Serenity
Harbor Maine Collection
Welcome to
Serenity Harbor, Maine, a small coastal town where the Starlight Grille is a
favorite meeting place. This sweet, with a touch of heat, collection includes a
new bonus short story and a Starlight Grille recipe.
~ cottages to cabins ~ keep the home fires burning ~
Delsora Lowe writes small town sweet and spicy romances
and contemporary westerns, from the mountains of Colorado to the shores of
Maine.
Author of the Starlight Grille series, Serenity Harbor
Maine novellas, and the Cowboys of
Mineral Springs series, Lowe has also authored short romances for Woman’s World magazine. The Love Left
Behind is a Hartford Estates, R.I. wedding novella. A Christmas
novel (The Inn at Gooseneck Lane) and novella (Holiday Hitchhiker)
were released in late fall 2022. Look for book 3 of the cowboy’s series, as
well as book 2 of the Hartford Estates series, in 2024.
Social Media
Links:
Author website: www.delsoralowe.com
Facebook Author page: https://www.facebook.com/delsoraloweauthor/community/
Amazon Author page: https://www.amazon.com/Delsora-Lowe/e/B01M61OM39/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
Books2Read Author page: https://www.books2read.com/ap/8GWm98/Delsora-Lowe
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Goodreads Author Page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16045986.Delsora_Lowe
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