Category: plans and goals

corporate

I kick off a lot of big projects, from novels to video games to hare-brained website plots, but so much of that is stuff that lacks the weight of officialness. In many ways, they are little more than public sandboxes that, if substantial interest was generated, could be elevated but for the most part are…
business analysis

It’s only been a few months, but I’ve been putting in a tremendous amount of time and effort this year to work towards my Business Analysis Certification. Previously, I spent twenty-plus years working in non-profit, non-governmental agencies, and then municipal government doing a lot of work implementing and running projects, products, and programs. And so…
little experiments

Goals are out. Experiments are in. I was listening to a podcast a few weeks ago and an interesting idea was suggested by one of the guests. We have these big ideas about goals and resolutions and accomplishments, but maybe we’re wrong about all that. Thinking about self-improvement or personal projects as zero-sum must-achieve-end-state goals…
hammer meet nail

Creativity is sometimes, to borrow a turn of phrase, a hammer looking for a nail. Inside every creative soul there can be this latent urge to make something, anything, and despite the tools sitting on shelves or the technology idling on the desk, all of it patiently waiting for inspiration to strike, the creative hammer…
day by day by day

I can’t write enough about incrementalism. The classic proverb asks: how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. I have been writing and creating and writing and making and writing and posting. If I went back in time a year to when I set out on this little writing life adventure and…
critical mass

After a year of pecking away at this thing I’ve learned to think of as a “writing life” I’ve found that I’ve kinda reached a critical mass of projects. True. Part of me thought I would have created something worthy of publication by now, but rather that has not been the case. For example, I…
writing pages

With mid-year approaching, those of us who tie resolve to new habit are on high alert for roadsigns for self-improvement. I spotted a popular brand of faux-leather notebook selling their 18-month daily journal-slash-planners whose imprinted dating scheme conveniently begins in a little over three weeks on July 1. I stayed my hand with effort as…
those words

The whole point of this life I’ve drafted for myself, or so it seems to me more and more each day, is to simply get words onto paper. That is why I am here. That is why I am jabbing the creativity fork into the idea wall socket and hoping for a spark. (Do not…
resolution

Now that the big day is come and gone, we can start thinking about wrapping up 2023. For me, 2023 was a huge year. Job change, life change, new roles, big accomplishments, travel, upsets, stumbles, achievements beyond belief and deleting hundreds of little things from my life. I had given myself the back half of…
challenges

As October draws to a close I find myself standing at the start line of a race that I’ve run previously but yet is not quite as familiar as the running marathon I tackled earlier in the month. For the fifth time I’m about to challenge myself by doing National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) the…