Oh, dear. I was all set to post my goal today and realized I was suffering from goal creep again. I was going to post a crazy high goal and had a rationalization for it all written out. I deleted it.
Time to reset.
I face a constant push and pull situation with goals. Too small and I don’t do enough, too big and I do more but get overwhelmed.
Today’s goal: blank.
:D Yes, BLANK.
I’m just not in the mood to set a goal.
I do, however, have a hard minimum I want to hit today.
And for the foreseeable future.
On the other hand, I’m already tired of having a daily goal to deal with. Changing the nomenclature doesn’t help. Target, aim, blah blah blah. It’s all the same and I know it and I can’t hide that fact from myself.
Don’t get me wrong, I still want to get to 3,200 a day and that number is stuck in my head, in a good way, I think. I won’t go into all the calculations that led me to that number, because I’ve done some of that in prior posts. Suffice to say, I used highly conservative numbers so I had the absolutely best chance of far exceeding my financial goals if I can ever reach a consistent 3,200 words a day.
BUT, I also calculated a fairly loose minimum word count that I need if things go well, and it’s 962 words a day, which gave me the idea to set a hard minimum of 1,000 words a day. If I can’t reach that and maintain it, I really do need to go find a different job. That’s just reality. It’s no different than setting a hard minimum to actually, you know, go to work every day. Money’s got to come from somewhere!
The hard minimum of 1,000 words a day is my go to work every day number of words. And dear God, it’s embarrassing in the extreme to say this, but if I can’t manage the 1-3 hours a day of writing that this requires, I’m not in the right career. If it’s that hard to make myself write, I need to move on and be done with it, and putter with writing only when I want to.
Wow. I guess I’m in a mood. ;) Maybe I should channel this into today’s writing.
The good news is that yesterday I did write more than 1,000 words of fiction, so I’m already off to a good start even though I didn’t know then that I was going to do this. :-)
Tomorrow, I don’t think I’ll be doing another goal post. However, I think I will do a simple summary post. See you then.
What I ended up with: 430 words.
What did I tell you about me and goals? Apparently a hard limit is pretty much the same thing. Ugh.