Happy New Year!  I’ve been reading feeds on Google Reader, and everyone’s got either a Year in Review post or a New Year’s Resolutions/Goals post (or sometimes both).  I don’t have one for you.  I’m pretty satisfied with how 2008 went.  I’m looking forward to 2009.  I don’t have specific goals, though.  I mentioned to a Twitter friend that I have trouble with setting goals, especially numeric goals.  I hate making numbers the focus!  But it’s difficult to otherwise find a way to measure progress.

For instance, I want to write more, write better, get published more.  But should I attach numbers to that?  An amount of money I want to earn, or a certain number of published articles?  I could, but somehow it doesn’t feel right.

I think what I’m searching for is a way to express how I want to live my whole life.  I don’t want to break it down into writing vs. work vs. family time vs. spiritual life vs. volunteer work, keeping each compartment separate. I want it all.  And I want it to work.

But maybe that’s not right, either.  Maybe I need to work on accepting what is, and being who I am (which does include the above things).

Maybe I do have a goal for the year.

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