I have a major confession. It’s hard to say aloud, much less type for all the world to read (and there’s that whole wayback machine thing which makes me wonder if I should really confess on the internet.)

But I digress.

Goals. I’ve been talking about them, typing about them, and thinking about them since last November. I was anxiously awaiting the awesome Goals workshop given by Susan Meier at the CataNetwork Writers loop.

I have an entire notebook of goals.

Well, there are a few pages of notes, a grocery list or two, and a few to do lists, but mostly… goal lists. Plans and resolutions for the new year.

The new year is here.

And I still have not put my writing goals in the notebook.

There… I’ve said it. Typed it. Whatever. The point is… I feel terrible about that. I have so many things I want to write, submit, accomplish… and they’re all just floating around in my head like bubbles and I can’t seem to catch any of them and put them down on paper/screen.

It’s so easy to get away with not writing my goals down. No one will know, I tell myself. Or rather, the little she-devil on my shoulder tells me.

It’s so easy not to share the goals. No one will check. “No one will notice,” says the she-devil.

It’s so easy not to write. No one will care. Except for me. My cats don’t care. They’re happy as long as I’m feeding them. The dog won’t care, he’d rather go for a walk. My DH won’t care. He’s busy with his own task list. My friends and family won’t care… for various reasons.

So it all comes back to me.

I have to care. I have to make myself do it…whatever it happens to be at the moment. And right this moment, it’s goals.

So here they are:

• Blog here weekly
• Finish the long emotional series romance I’m working on by September
• Revise and polish the manuscript before Christmas
• Do research on my top 10 agents
• Present 2 workshops in 2009

You might also be interested in

1. The 5 Year Plan
2. Quick Tip: Tomorrow’s Goal
3. 2009 Goals Update