goals

Every year when the sun comes out again after winter (early June in New Hampshire, and April in Ohio), I feel the urge to run in a thousand different directions after wildly random ideas, but the moment an interest goes from being a vague, intriguing concept to an obligation, I lose interest. I haven’t yet learned the trick to work around that yet. With that undirected energy in mind, I’ve been pondering summer goals. I’ve never really been good at setting goals, despite my obsession with lists, but I’ve been working on a few goals in recent months and seeing results, so maybe this summer will be different. Anyway, if I post about it on my blog, I’m more likely to do it, right?

So, some of my summer goals:

• save money (or rather, spend very carefully)
• run the D&D starter set “The Dragons of Stormwreck Isle” (which, counting prep work, has to be about 75% done even though I’ve only run one session)
• maintain a garden and grow something edible (as I’ve planted five types of edible plant in said garden, the odds are good)
• illustrate art cards to send by mail for no reason at all, other than to keep the art brain going and to amuse my friends
• go somewhere/do something new
• hike at least once (I’m setting the bar very low)
• go out to dinner maybe twice (see the first point on saving money)
• send a lot of postal mail

And a few other goals which don’t need to be stuck to the internet.

Researchers and people who publish things about people suggest setting SMART goals – Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-Bound. Reasonable, in theory; as you can see, some of my goals have more of these traits than others.