{"id":1664,"date":"2020-01-08T23:03:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T23:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2020-02-12T07:08:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T07:08:28","slug":"update-and-beyond-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/?p=1664","title":{"rendered":"Update and beyond 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I have given an update and a bit has changed. This post is not going to be a new year new me post&#8230;. but it will share some similarities. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3fd47d627866ac3f67bc4a38b0b2941c.jpeg\" width=\"270\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So NaNo was a bust for me, I just didn&#8217;t plan enough and like I have most years I got about half way through and then came to a halt. Lack of planning tends to do this to me. The way I write is to have an outline and then for each chapter I start as I have planned and then &#8220;pants&#8221; it through to the end and the next chapter, this works most of the time although I have to add a bit in. So I didn&#8217;t plan and didn&#8217;t end up completing it because of this. There was quite a bit of personal stuff that happened which also contributed.<\/p>\n<p>So.. before new year, beginning of December I started thinking about my life and my goals. Mainly that I have had them for a long long time. Being a writer has been a thing since I was a child although I have tried for over a decade now and not got very far. I do plenty of world building and come up with basic ideas that I never flesh out. My writing output ends up being very low. the other if my health and fitness, not only for my kids and grandkids but for myself as well. I am 42 now and although I am getting older I am tired of the feeling and being tired all of the time. I have a hernia and it seems to be getting more and more uncomfortable, I have been trying to lose weight for years so that I can get the op to get rid of it. I seem to lack motivation. So that is the other goal.<\/p>\n<p>To try and help with achieving these goals I started to write down what I wanted to achieve and what I thought I would need to do to help achieve this. I am not going to go into detail in this post but I may in a further update one. Suffice to say I have a few goals to achieve from now (2020) and beyond. I am hoping the things I have out in place this time that I have never done before will help me to achieve these goals.<\/p>\n<p>The goals I have been planning for are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Losing at least 4 stone so that I can have my hernia op. (This will also I create health and wellbeing)<\/li>\n<li>Achieve my writing dream. This means being published and also down the road writing a series that people cannot wait to get the next chapter in. Seeing my books in Waterstones in my town would just be fantastic.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s the basic of it. To help with these goals I have planned out some things that can help me achieve. Exercise plans, Journaling, time planning and one of the things I believe will help me more this time is the accountability. I have written this all down and I have read that writing for increases the chance of achieving goals to about 36% the other thing is I have asked a friend of mine to help me by being an accountability partner. Following an article I read we are setting goals on a Sunday night and then updating each other. Explaining why we haven&#8217;t met a goal or completing them and then setting new goals. Each goal needs to further one of the targets I have set for myself.<\/li>\n<li>So.. here I am in the hospital (my eldest daughter is in labour) it&#8217;s nearly 23:00 and I am getting psyched with my progress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20200108_225502-scaled.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I have given an update and a bit has changed. This post is not going to be a new year new me post&#8230;. but it will share some similarities. \ud83d\ude42 So NaNo was a bust for me, I just didn&#8217;t plan enough and like I have most years I got&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}