The First of 2013
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I did not stay up to celebrate the first minutes of 2013. I enjoy getting up to see the first sunrise instead (although it was cloudy so I took the picture at the left of wind chimes and winter trees at the time of 'sunrise').
New beginnings are so full of potential. Just as sunrise is a prompt to review the plan for the day, New Year’s day is a good prompt for writing some goals for the upcoming year. This year I am using a start - stop - continue grouping. I’ve learned over the years to include specific ways to measure the goal in the goal statement itself or as an associated note. Here are some examples from my list for 2013.
Start
- Losing the last few pounds to get down into the ‘normal’ range for my height by April 1.
- Upgrading landscaping and garden around the house by early summer
Stop
- Drinking soft drinks (diet Pepsi is my downfall!)
Continue
- Volunteering with the Friends of a local nature center (4-8 hours per week).
- Reading about even numbers of fiction - history - arts/social - technical books at about the same rate as previous years.
- Writing 3000 words per day when I am at home.
- Gardening in pots on the deck
- Using travel or hosting guests to break up the year.
- Monthly visits to public gardens or conservatories
- Tucson in the early spring
- House guests in the early spring
- South Carolina in the early summer
- West Virginia in the fall
