In my New Year's resolutions post I talked about my plans for 2025. Now that I know I can maintain a weekly posting habit, I decided to set goals for the year and track progress every week. To review, my goals for the year are:
Each week, I'm going to review what I accomplished toward each goal the previous week, and what I intend to do in coming week. I'm hoping this accountability will help to keep me on track and moving toward my ultimate goals, which are to publish in 2025, declutter and finish my organization projects, and build out my doll business in 2025.
Last week was a partial week, but I still feel like I accomplished a ton. I'm sure I'm partially full of New Year, new resolutions energy, but I'm hoping to maintain the motivation and momentum as long as possible — and I'm hoping these weekly posts will help.
Here's the rundown from last week:
Writing
I didn't write every day last week. In fact, I missed three days in a row, which is more than I have missed in a while. I did, however, get a post up on my author Instagram, which I need to start posting to regularly.
As for the gaps in writing progress, I'm going to chalk it up to difficulties establishing a routine, and see how this week goes. In general, my goal is to write six days a week, which will put me comfortably above the 80% success rate I had in December.
Decluttering and Organization
I did well with this last week. Rather than just getting the minimum of one project done, I accomplished two: On Wednesday I went through, repacked, and put away some childhood and family things that have been sitting out for far too long, and last night I mounted some shelves and started organizing them. I'm counting these as "projects" even though they're smaller pieces of a larger project, which is to finish organizing my bedroom and both of our closets. Each small piece gets us closer to the finish.
The next projects are to put up another set of shelves, put up curtains in the bedroom, and work on cleaning and organizing the bedroom itself — I have far too many piles in there that need to be gone through and put away. We'll see how much of that I can get done this week, but the goal of course is to get at least one of those things done.
Dolls
I actually did get a spur-of-the-moment project done, and replaced eyes on a doll that has been waiting for repair for quite some time. I also started a repair and removed eyes from another doll so I could measure them and order the right size replacement. As for the content goal, I got a post up on Instagram about the completed eye swap, and filmed the eye removal to make a video once that swap is completed.
Lessons Learned
If there's anything I've learned in the past partial week, it's that I need to stop putting so much pressure on myself for completing certain things first. Yes, there are things that are bigger priorities than others. But if I try to make myself do those things when I'm not feeling it, the end result is that I procrastinate and do nothing. So instead, I am going to try an approach of doing things as I am interested and motivated to do them, and use that momentum to tackle the higher priority things once I'm already in motion.
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