elsajeni | New! Year! Goals! (Reply)

It's 2019! New year, new goals!

Do some kind of exercise every day -- 90% target success rate

This is a recurring goal for the last 3 years! I think my highest success rate is like 85%. Onward and upward!
I don't ask very much of myself in this respect -- a gym workout counts, but so does a 10-minute walk, doing some stretching and PT exercises, anything really.
Walking I would be doing anyway (around the grocery store, etc.) does not count, unless it's an unusual Extra Walking situation like going to the Renaissance Festival.

Weight goals: deadlift 300 lbs, bench 155 lbs, squat 220 lbs

I hesitate even to list these, because I am also working toward Outside My Control Goal: Produce Baby, which has reached the "let's solve this problem by applying science" stage and might suddenly blow up any other bod-related goals at any moment.
Counterpoint: Operation Produce Baby is fixing to enter its third year and I am fed up of putting other bod-related stuff on hold for it.
WHATEVER WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS
SECONDARY GOAL: LEARN TO COPE WITH UNCERTAINTY AND LACK OF INTERNAL LOCUS OF CONTROL
Anyway, these are kind of ambitious but probably achievable goals -- I'll have to get past a stuck point on deadlift (working on some form improvements), and I'll be moving slowly and gently on squat as I'm still coming back from a knee injury

Write 25,000 words of finished material

In 2018 I wrote 19,155 words of finished, posted fic, between three exchanges and two rounds of tinyfic prompts
Last year's goal was just "do writing," which I did okay but not great at; since the goal was something like 100 words per day, it also produced a whole bunch of really short semi-usable scraps of like 15 different fic ideas, which doesn't feel really valuable to me.
This year's goal is more focused toward finishing stuff -- it doesn't have to be posted, published, submitted to anything, etc., but it has to be Done to my own satisfaction -- which will hopefully keep me focused on adding to what I wrote yesterday instead of starting from some new random point every day.

Send every work email on the day I first plan to

I am a BAD EMAIL PROCRASTINATOR
This mostly means "on the day I first think of it," except that occasionally there's an actual reason to delay; in that case I am allowed to calendar the email for a later date, but then I gotta send it ON THAT DATE

Cook dinner at least once a week

I am extremely fortunate to have a stay-at-home spouse who does the vast majority of cooking and cleaning, which is great, but if Operation Produce Baby succeeds anytime soon, he will be a stay-at-home parent and I will need to start pulling my weight
I'm honestly not sure how best to keep track of this. Weekly? Monthly? Just total count of meals cooked, averaged over number of weeks so far?

Track the books I read

Liz