After 2 years of intermittent blogging, I’ve noticed that I tend to blog more in the first half of the year and drop off somewhere just before June, with a couple of drafts that never make it to published status. This is mainly because I’ve been trying to keep this blog as a space for my creative pursuits and those pursuits are not as well organized as the rest of my life and I haven’t consciously decided to change that (although I have been thinking for a while – couple of years – that this might be a good idea). This isn’t a pronouncement that I’m planning to change that, but sometimes saying it loud helps me make it happen … if a blog post is published and no one is around to read it, does it still make a sound when it collapses?
Last year I had some pretty lofty creative and fitness goals, most of them partially met:
- I actually did make something EVERY DAY in February… I was a bit lagged on the posting towards the middle/end of the month, but I made it!
- I did manage to work out pretty regularly between March and July. I even decided to run the SF Half Marathon, only to be thwarted by a lung infection 3 weeks before the marathon. Then, I left my sadness over not being able to run that marathon take over the rest of the year and I ran about 10 more times through the rest of the year after getting better. This year, I’ve got a running partner (sort of). She’ll be training in the East Coast while I get myself back in gear and we’ll be running that half marathon together. So now I really have to do it.
- I did finish a lot of projects in 2010, but failed document most of what I made from May onwards. I’m working on this one again this year.
It was still a great year of lessons learned and understanding myself better (that one is always a good one). So, with that new knowledge in my pocket, my 2011 goals:
- SF Half Marathon
- 28 ThingADay Entries (one for each day of February)
- 12 BLOG POSTS – I’d like to blog at least once a month. I hope to update this mid-year and if I already have 12, I’ll add 6 more for Jun-Dec.
- Active ETSY Store – I’m a slow crafter and have been hesitant to add things to my Etsy store because I can really only sell 1 or 2 items at a time. This year I won’t care. I’ll be posting my stuff up shortly. One item at a time.
- 4 New Designs
- 12 Completed Projects (Complete when documented/blogged).
Wish me luck.
karizmatic 
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