Well, the Sunday School lesson was a success, as were the cookies Sarah made for it. And now we're halfway through the last week of July. I can't believe how quickly time is passing. (As usual.) I've been married for 39 days. I've been 25 for a full month. I've been at my job for 10.5 months. I've been out of college for a full year, home from Mexico for 4, and out of high school for 7.
That's just crazy talk.
I've been working at accomplishing goals lately. That sounds redundant (or something like it); I'm always working at my goals. But lately I've been trying to do more of them each day. I'll often have a lengthy to-do list that includes everything under the Sun I'd like to accomplish, and then at the end of the day I've only done about 15% of my goals and I feel a bit disheartened. So I've been working on setting more manageable goals and on simply doing more each day, and it's been going really well.
For example, I have a goal to write every day. I also have specific goals regarding different writing projects in the works. Usually I only have/make the time for one project per day—I can either write more of the short story I'm working on, work on polishing my first novel, or continue with the outline for its sequel. Well, lately I've been trying to do all three of those things every day. It's a bit of a sacrifice, but honestly not much; I'm sacrificing loafing-around time, if anything.
And yesterday I wrote 500 words in the short story, ~750 in the outline, and read half a chapter of my novel. Not bad at all.
Anyway, I've been seeing improvement there. I'm still pushing to hit ~80% of my weekly goals on a regular basis. That's the number that I think is significant: It shows that I'm setting good goals and working hard to achieve them.
I might actually get there this week. And then it'll be August, and I can set some new monthly goals and get excited about them and all this hard work will propel me straight into fame and fortune.
Well, not really. Good thing that's not one of my goals. At least not until September.
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