Resolutions get cancelled Goals get Accomplished

I do goals not resolutions

Every year people choose to create New Year resolutions. I was and have never been that person. A few years ago I posted a status on Facebook that I do goals not resolutions. Resolutions to me are temporary. Goals are more permanent, especially if you write them down. If you write them down whether its at the beginning of the year, the beginning of the month, the beginning of the week or just the beginning of the day, at the end of what ever time frame you choose you can look back and see what you accomplished, if you accomplished it all or if you still have more to go.

A few years ago I started creating list of my goals for the year. I would start of good with enthusiasm and motivation accomplishing things that I wanted to do for that year. How ever, motivation is hard to keep if you are not working at it like a job. You have to push yourself to stay motivated, its easy to get distracted from your goal when you allow other things to get in the way. I am a creative person and as a creative person I am constantly thinking of things, beginnings of poems, story ideas, actual story dialogue, essay and article ideas. One thing that got in the way of all this inspiration and creativity in my head that I never put on paper and if I did I didn’t do anything else with was life. Life got in the way, priorities, rents, bills trying to prevent homelessness, depression at times, exhaustion, laziness, work.

Work.....I have worked in an office setting for years and one day it dawned on me that although I liked helping people and enjoyed the work, work was killing my creativity. I had no inspiration or motivation to create. I was focused on other things and those things took over and took residence over my love creating, my love of writing, which to create and write more is always one of goals on my list. Work even put my love for music on life support which other than writer is my therapy (thats another story).

Creating a list of goals is great. Completing the list is a goal in it self. Where I failed at and its my goal to work on this specific issue this year in 2021, I failed to refer to the list throughout the year or at the end of the year. I just recently looked at an old list maybe a few weeks ago and thought to my self “oh I forgot about this” . I once created a one page writing business plan. I got the idea from a book, I believe it was either the Writer’s Market or Poet’s Market. Both good books, writing business plan great idea and tool, only effective if you use it. I think I referred to it once after the creation of it. So that is something that I have to do better with.

I use to writer my list of goals somewhere around the end of current year of the beginning of the upcoming year. At this moment I haven’t written 2021 list of goals yet, and I was stressing about that then I figured don’t stress about just get it done. And when I do in order to stay focused and motivated on my goals I am going to print it out and put somewhere where I can see it and refer to it everyday.

In fact since I have two locations that I occupy my apartment and my co-working space I will find a place at both and put it somewhere at both so that i can see daily and check off or cross of goals as I complete them.

One goal at the top of my list will be creating my personal blog (also awareness site) on my journey with Tuberous Sclerosis. I officially complete that goal last week. Although it is not completely live yet. I don’t want the link provided (free one) I want a more personalized link so I am upgrading to that on Wednesday (payday), plus the current one is misspelled by one letter.

Please feel free to follow the link below and let me know your thoughts. I am so proud of myself for accomplishing this goal.

Current link to Le’Keshia’s TSC Journey

https://belllekeshia.wixsite.com/lekeshiastlcjourney

Resolutions are temporary.

Goals are focused and permanent is especially if you write them down. “Write the vision make it plain”