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New Year's Goals

I don't make New Year's Resolutions. I make New Year's goals and plans.

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With Christmas now over, it’s time to look toward the New year. I don't make New Year's Resolutions, I make New Year's goals and plans. What new surprises await me in 2018? What will I be able to accomplish? What plans have I already made and how many will I be able to keep?

2017 draws to a close and I feel there’s still so much I wish I’d done. But then there’s so much I accomplished as well. I wish I’d finished reading a few more books. Most of all as 2017 draws to a close I wish I’d had the time to fully dedicate to my personal writing projects. But on the other hand, I’ve done so much. I may not have finished a single writing project, but through my classes my writing improved. I’ve started some fantastic pieces that I will carry with me into the new year and finish.

On that note, graduation is just around the corner in the new year. I have one last term and will finish in early March. Then there’s the question of whether I will walk at commencement. I haven’t yet decided. Some of it may depend on whether The Dives are playing nearby so I can kill two birds with one stone. May also depend on whether work will approve the vacation time off.

I plan to take my first cruise in this upcoming year. It’ll be late in the year but I don’t want to miss it. I’ve wanted to experience the KISS KRUISE 2 years straight now. I don’t want to miss the next year. I was truly disappointed to have missed this years cruise. Another instance, where I couldn’t get the time off work. I’m putting everything back that I can to be able to experience new things in the new year.

I still hope thatI can get the play finished. Once I have the play written I have bigger plans with that story and getting it on the stage. Once that’s finished, and I’m working on the next steps I will get back to my novel. It started as a short story for fiction writing. And I wrote the prologue in November. I’d like to say that I’ve finished my first fiction novel by the end of next year as well.

This upcoming year will be another year of change for me. It’s also going to be a year of taking chances. I want to move in the new year. I want to find a different job in the new year. There’s not telling now what the new year holds. I hope that there will be lots of doors to open and explore. I hope everyone finds what they didn’t find this past year in the new year. Most of all, I hope we have the courage to open those doors and make dreams a reality. Step into the new year with me with courage, hope and a willingness to grow.

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