...and how many people have set a resolution or goal?
Lose Weight.
Stop smoking.
More organized.
Learn a new language.
Spend more time with my kids/partner/house plant.
Seek help for an alleged gif addiction.
etc etc etc.
It's hard stuff making huge life changes, especially when we as creatures of habit try to change our daily routine.
Sometimes, we forget that our routine is very deeply rooted. Smokers, for example, tie a lot of their day around when their scheduled cigarettes are. Get up, pee, cigarette. First coffee, cigarette. The last drag before you walk into work? Breakfast, cigarette. Lunch, cigarette.
etc etc etc
So perhaps stopping smoking isn't as easy as having the will to just say no.
Examining a goal on a smaller level will make it less insurmountable and easier for your brain to remap itself.
For example, my goal for this year is to finally empty my head of the novel that has been nagging me since 2009.
Stop start stop start stop start.
Ugh.
I have small projects I'd like to finish up, put those characters to bed and really devote most of my headspace to my novel.
I've been saying that same sentence for the last 6 months. 6 freaking months.
Easier said than done. Currently I'm out of my writing habits. I used to be able to bang out 5K words a week. Now, I'm lucky if I can type out 500.
And it's all very well and good saying I can totally write say 75K words.
But that's A LOT OF WORDS. and I'm a wordy bitch.
However, if I start my goal at say, 300 words in a week...I can slowly build up to a larger figure once I'm into my new routine.
So. My goal for the next 28 days is to write at least 300 words each week.
Can't wait to get started...
lol what...I do not have a gif problem.
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