Let's try something new - without jinxing it!

[nonesensed]

Once more, I'm doing the lists, and the goals, and trying to catch up everywhere (like here 😅), but I finally think I have stumbled upon the right balance of Goals VS Stress for myself.

As the title says, I don't want to jinx it by celebrating too early, but I feel like myself again 💖 Helps that I've sworn to not work more than 8 hours a day, 5 days a week this year. Funny how much of a change that's already brought on, four weeks into the new year 😉

I'm back to writing! The "you have to do everything so you do nothing"-stress of 2025 is gone at last, which means I can sit down and work more efficiently on line-edits of my closest-to-finished-WIP A Werewolf in October. I'm hoping to print it (just, like, 10 copies, not publish) at the end of this year, but if it's not ready then, it's not ready. It'll never be as polished and error free as a professional work with actual beta-readers and editors etc but I'm not aiming for professional - I'm aiming for a fun thing to have made that I can share with a handful of my friends 😊

Doing my best to return to timed goals instead of accomplishment goals. That is, "work on this story for 30 minutes tonight" instead of "you have to listen to 14 podcast episodes this week". My deadline heavy work life reaaaally infected my way of thinking of my hobbies - but no more, I say!

Since I'm going Slow And Steady Wins The Race, I'm also trying not to fret over being so behind on comments and blog entries here on DW (I'll tell you if I succeed). It's why I've skipped the Snowflake challenge this year - at least for now.

So. In a hopeful mood, despite *gestures at the state of the world*

Comments

[flo_nelja]

Yeah, glad to see you! <3

[nonesensed]

Glad to be back! 💖💖💖

[flamingsword]

That sounds very reasonable! May the blessings of the steady tortoise fall gentle upon you.

I have a couple of deadline-style goals for things this year, bc some things require that, but most of the stuff I want to do is process-style goals. (I do want to make 3-ish Hexipuffs a week, though. I want to be able to put together this quilt [or housecoat or whatever these knitted hexagons wind up getting used for] by the end of the year.)

[nonesensed]

A most wonderful blessing to receive, thank you!

Oh yeah, some goals do require deadlines to work out, like with editing my book-WIP. Best of luck with your quilt-housecoat-hexagons 💖💖💖

[scintilla10]

I feel like myself again yay!! :D

I'm also doing more timed goals for myself, especially giving myself low thresholds to accomplish them. Doing some is better than none!

I'm not doing Snowflake either -- here's to giving ourselves a break! We can always catch up on challenges later on, if we want to. ;)

[nonesensed]

Doing some is better than none!

100% agree! And yes, picking only a few things to do at the time has been such needed change for me. Trying to do everything at once has turned out to be a surefire way to get nothing, so it's time to try a new approach 😊

I hope your break is going as well as mine! We can indeed catch up the Snowflake Challenge and other such things later, should we be so inclined 💗