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The awesome co-hosts for the January 7 posting of the IWSG are Shannon Lawrence, Olga Godim, Jean Davis, and Jacqui Murray!
January 7 question - Is there anything in your writing plans for 2026 that you are going to do that you couldn't get done in 2025?
I watched a YouTube video recently on how to achieve my goals for 2026
In my case it’s:
- Sending out more queries for my humorous women’s fiction novel
- Landing an agent
- And getting on the road to publication.
But, interestingly enough...
I learned that setting my goals wasn’t the main way to achieve them...
It’s prioritizing one —main—goal...
Focusing on it...
Filtering out the less important ones...
And, not getting distracted by all those distractions...
They’re everywhere...
On my computer when I’m Googling something...
On my phone with in social media or phone calls...
And it’s so tempting to open up a reel, and then off my mind goes...
Or I’m choosing a smaller goal because it’s instantly gratifying.
Like designing my next landscape project...
Or organizing my office.
I need to create a pair of blinders...
So that every time my mind or eyes wander a buzzer goes off and a voice says,
"FOCUS! You can do this!"
Or create whatever it would take to make me stay focused on Focusing.
And what about you?
What do you want to achieve this year that you didn’t last year?
And how do you stay focused or eliminate distractions?
Always,
Em-Musing
6 comments:
Generally if I'm sitting down to write I can stay focused. But...this year my daughter gave me a subscription to Ancestry.com for Christmas. Suddenly my concentration is all over the place as I go down multiple rabbit holes. It's fun and I'm learning so much, but it's not helping me to concentrate on writing.
Focus! That's the key, but I'm sure you can. Here's to a very successful year!
I can get distracted to. Maybe you can designate time in your day/week to be focused on these goals.
Yeah, focusing is paramount, if one wants to achieve a goal, but it is hard, especially as there are so many interesting rabbit holes everywhere. Unfortunately, I'm like most people: I do not actually want to focus. Instead, I'm asking myself: do I really want to achieve that goal? Making excuses is so easy.
I think the key to focusing on something is to be absorbed by it.
I have a daily to-do list and the important things get done first no matter what. If I am working on one major goal, it's on that list and it's not an option to skip it.
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