Welcome to Pondering with a Purpose -
This is my weekly hop where I post a prompt and you get to write to it on your - come back here and add it to my linky and then we all get to go read what you wrote!
I started Pondering with a Purpose because -- simply put -- I am a writer - - that is what I do (I just can't help myself)! And although I love following all the hops, I wanted to see if I could bring out some creativity in not only myself, but some of my blogger friends as well.
The rules are really easy:1. Grab the Pondering with a Purpose Badge (in my sidebar)
2. Look at the week's prompt
3. Post something on your blog that relates to the prompt - it can be a story, a poem, a picture -- anything you want it to be.
4. Come back here and add the URL from your post to the linky list below.
5. Go check out the other bloggers who have added their links to the list.
6. AND most of all.... Have fun!
This Week's prompt: Goals
Do you set goals for yourself that are unattainable? Or are you like me? You set goals and then you beat yourself up when you don't meet them?
Me? Well I set goals for myself all the time and then make justifications as to why I haven't met them... for a great example... I said I would post half of a chapter of Ferry Tails on my blog every Sunday and then I just stopped... but it doesn't really appear as if anyone has missed them... (that would be my justification for not continuing) :)
I have felt like I have not completed anything for soooooo long and then I stop and reconsider the fact that I have finished 7 novels and have made the commitment to publish one a year and have managed to fulfill that promise to myself..... SO why do I feel so bad if I don't write everyday????
I would love to hear what you all have to say about setting personal goals and how you either fulfill them or justify missing them......
I would love to hear your comments, or read your post that is linked up... or better yet both!
Me? Well I set goals for myself all the time and then make justifications as to why I haven't met them... for a great example... I said I would post half of a chapter of Ferry Tails on my blog every Sunday and then I just stopped... but it doesn't really appear as if anyone has missed them... (that would be my justification for not continuing) :)
I have felt like I have not completed anything for soooooo long and then I stop and reconsider the fact that I have finished 7 novels and have made the commitment to publish one a year and have managed to fulfill that promise to myself..... SO why do I feel so bad if I don't write everyday????
I would love to hear what you all have to say about setting personal goals and how you either fulfill them or justify missing them......
I would love to hear your comments, or read your post that is linked up... or better yet both!
I think you are super amazing when it comes to the goal department a book a year come on Brenda that is awesome stuff there, give yourself some slack on the not writing every day....write as you want to with love for the writing not for the goal. I noticed but I thought you just didn't want to give to much away hahaha Goals are to be met with a feeling of pride and happiness not ugh ok I did it already. We are all prone to take on to much at different times and those goals become un- realistic. So look at what you have accomplished and the other stuff can be met later ;]
ReplyDeleteThanks Janice... i do know that I am way too hard on myself... and I have begun to write again.. it just feels like the right (write) time!
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Wow- I think a novel a year and maintaining your blog is a huge accomplishment... I agree - I tend to let things drop from my blog when I don't get positive reactions... but I seem to put some of them back eventually because it pleases me... and really, other than to make my family happy, that's my biggest goal ;-)
ReplyDeleteHeather, thanks for joining us today...and I think I need to get back ...even though I'm pretty much there.... to writing on my blog what makes me happy... because after all... isn't that why I started it?
DeleteI was actually thinking about Ferry Tales just yesterday!
ReplyDeletelol.... yeah me too!
DeleteI love goals! It gives me a sense of control over my life. I have easy ones that give me confidence and then harder ones to make me grow. It give purpose to the day.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree... goals do equal control
DeleteThanks for pondering with me!
A book a year is quite impressive. I've not managed to write one in an entire lifetime. LOL
ReplyDeleteBUT you have other accomplishments
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Oh my goodness, Brenda. You have NOTHING to beat yourself up about. You are amazing, and your books are fantastic.
ReplyDeleteRe-read my review and the ones from others. LOVE your books.
Elizabeth
Silver's Reviews
http://silversolara.blogspot.com
Thank you Elizabeth!!!!
DeleteI do set goals...but only ones I am sure I will meet!
ReplyDeleteI am less frustrated that way...
sometimes it is good to reach for the stars!
DeleteAnd here I thought you had stopped Ferry Tails just to tease us! I've been dying over here....but didn't want to say anything. It will be the next book, right? right? xx
ReplyDeleteAlso, I agree with you....it's a tremendous goal that you have done 7 books! Gosh, I'd be laying on the couch in complete veg mode if I had accomplished that. ha
I don't know if I am much of a "goal" person...in the strictest sense. I fear I might be more of the fly by the seat of my pants, or roll with it kinda gal. I don't have a real complicated thought process: I just decide "hey, I am going to do this" and I do. just like that.
I'm a freak. it's okay, you can say it. :)
Actually Cracked cocoon is the next one... Ferry Tails is after that.... and then the sequel to Skewered Halo... ppphhhhewwwww.... I just go overwhelmed looking at that!
DeleteWow! 7 books. I would be thrilled to write a short story that someone willing read!
ReplyDeleteBUT you write a blog people are willing to read!
DeleteWillingly read, that is!
ReplyDeleteI definitely think 7 books is quite the accomplishment!! When I don't meet a goal, I usually beat myself up and while doing so try to defend myself to myself as to why I did not meet my goal!
ReplyDeleteI think that is normal.... if everyone met their goals....this would be a great world... don't you think? But human nature is that we give up....
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