Challenges and Goals Part 2

Made a few more decisions about my goals and challenges for this year...I've decided to take black and white pictures, there are so many interesting places and things that when you take the picture in B/W is just enhances it; at least that's my opinion.

I also bought a book titled, "A 5 Year Question A Day Memory Journal. There is a different question for each day of the year.

Goals and Challenges not Resolutions

 

Today is the First of January 2024! It's been a nice quiet day, a little chilly for Florida but since I had no plans I didn't really care!!

I decided a long time ago that I was not a fan of the word so tied to the beginning of the year...RESOLUTION(S). It seems that every time I made one or more of those things I never kept a one! So I set goals, doable goals, nothing crazy like walking at least one step more than I did the day before! I also set challenges for myself, like reading a certain number of books for this year, that's easy to keep track of thanks to the app "Goodreads", this years goal is 36 books, 3 a month! I am also going to re-read books by SEP (Susan Elizabeth Philips), I am going to add to the read list by trying to get through most of Heather Grahams "Krewe of Hunters" series, currently I'm reading "Pale as Death" #25 in the series! (Currently there are 38 books in the series)

I would also like to "do" some of the Photography challenges I found on Pinterest! First I need to find my camera as it is hiding somewhere in my room!

I'm also going to set a goal of donating and or clean up at least one box from my storage unit each month! when I'm there I can also take inventory of all my Lego sets! at one time I had a spreadsheet of them all but as my computers have changed over the last 20 plus years that information is now lost.

ideas

 I've been mulling over a few different ideas to get my creativity flowing and help my muse find her way home! I think I am going go pick a few different types of "challenges" from Pinterest---photography, reading, gratitude...

I'm hoping I can do something from each of these lists every week. 

it's kind of funny, I wanted a laptop because I wanted to start writing again, but after not having one for almost 3 years it's difficult to pick it back up again. I do not miss things like social media, still too much negativity around and I have no desire to revisit some of my old haunts. but this will be a new start even if I don't fully get this going until the new year. Practice will make as perfect as I can be!!

new goals

going to try something different, well different for me. I love taking pictures; I am almost never without my camera nearby. I also love Pinterest and on that site I've created a board with "Photo Challenges". Most of these are for taking 1 picture each day of  the month and then posting them. Well, with my work schedule that's too much currently, so I'm going to adapt the rules. I plan on picking a photo challenge and with in the month taking the pictures. I'm going to do a test run in December, so for week 1, I'll take pictures 1 to 7 and week 2, 8 to 14...get the idea? I'll post them here in my blog and create a facebook album as well. Anyone else up to the challenge??

Here's an example, I did this Disney Photo Challenge a few weeks ago!!

tempting to let day 6 slip away...

Quitting before I've barely begun you might think and you might be right; but I can't be a quitter.
It's a time to be positive, a new year, a fresh start, the promise of adventures to come, recipes to make, books to read, challenges to be successful completing! NO, I'm still not making resolutions, just turning a phrase at this point.

And to further my goal of being positive and not lashing out with my normal sarcastic self I'll end tonight, I'll stop writing and go back to reading a book, "After You" by Jojo Moyes, sequel to "Me Before You" (sadly which will soon be a sad shadow of a book movie"

dislocated and out of sorts

What is that quote? The best laid plans.....and something about going astray....

yeah, well Thursday morning that's what happened to me...I fell and dislocated my right hip. Boy oh boy does that hurt, I had horrible spasms, landing myself in an ER on Valentines Day is not my idea of fun.

This has thrown my whole life upside down and it's hard getting back into my regular routine. Maybe this will inspire some new and different blogs but only time will tell..