{"id":2121,"date":"2021-01-13T14:47:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T14:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2021-01-13T14:59:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T14:59:13","slug":"goals-and-ideas-for-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/goals-and-ideas-for-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Goals and Ideas for 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I no longer make resolutions for a new year. After many years I\u2019ve realized they never go anywhere and are generally forgotten with a few weeks. Instead I set goals for myself, and I try to make them goals I can work with and have a decent chance of achieving. Plus I post them publicly for both accountability and motivation.<\/p>\n

Most of my goals involve what is now my primary career: writing.<\/p>\n

I have two novels currently in progress, a mystery, Playing at Murder<\/em><\/strong>, and a romance, No Time for Mistakes<\/em><\/strong>.(Both titles are tentative.) My goal is to finish both by the end of the year. I\u2019m also setting a goal to write five new short stories and submit each somewhere.<\/p>\n

On a personal level, I\u2019ve begun a project to scan all the photos in my large stack of photo albums that are aging and falling apart. It\u2019s a big project and I expect it to take up most of the year, but I hope to finish it by next Christmas. It\u2019s part of an ongoing attempt to clean out and get rid of as much as possible of the \u2018stuff\u2019 I\u2019ve accumulated over the years.<\/p>\n

And this one is neither exactly a goal nor a resolution. It\u2019s more like a promise to myself. I plan to find a way to do something that will help others, especially those who have been less blessed in life than I\u2019ve been. I don\u2019t know what that means right now. Certainly the pandemic is a complicating factor. But I\u2019m feeling a strong need to do more and give back. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

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