Goal Tending

Last night, the dude and I had our usual quiet night in. We leave New Year's Eve to the amatuers. (Well, now that we're old, I guess we leave it to the young. But when we were young, we left it to the amateurs.) We had a nice dinner with the china, crystal, good silver and a lovely bottle of wine. We watched the most depressing movie Seth Rogen's ever been in. And we made a list of things we wanted to do in 2014.

I kept going--I'm doing my sparkly life workbook again this year because there were mysterious forces at work last year. I wrote down the word "focus" and instead of going into a depression and stopping my job search when I wasn't successful, I got right back in the saddle, and ultimately succeeded. I did more things I meant to because I was doing the things I wanted to.

This year's word is "connect" and it goes well with both the list that the dude and I made together and the things I wrote in my workbook.

These are my creative goals from the workbook (yup, there's a section for creative goals!):

• stitch more smalls
• finish-finish 12 stitched pieces
• keep the craft room tidy
• make cards in advance of needing them
• plan Craft Month, and work ahead 
• stitch two threads each night
• complete stitching eight pieces (in addition to the smalls)

In order to succeed, I have taken the following steps:

• signed up for the Smalls SAL
• scheduled quarterly finishing weekends
• joined Jen Funk-Weber's free stitchinar about finishing to be held on January 11
• made a schedule of cards to make monthly
• scheduled regular crafting time
• made a list of (themed!) crafts, which I will begin tackling soon (breaking them down by category)

Of course, over the course of the year, I will find other ways to help myself succeed. Small steps.

However you celebrate it,
whatever your hopes and dreams may be,

Happy 2014!