River: Good Riddance to 2020

[mdlbear]

Here, for what it's worth, is my review of the goals from last New Year's Day. I'm not sure there's ever been a year I was as glad to see the ass-end of as 2020, though 1990, 1999, 2012, and 2016 all had their awful parts, and I'm really bad at ranking things.

1. I've never been much good at self care, either, so I'm putting it on the list again. At the top. [...] Going for walks and getting to the dentist would be plausible sub-goals.
   No walks, but I did get both me and Colleen to the dentist, multiple times. And... I lived through the year, and didn't catch COVID-19, so I'm going to take that as circumstantial evidence that I didn't do all that badly. Let's say 80%.
2. Mom's hundredth birthday party is still a plausible goal, though she's told my brother and me that if we want one we'll have to plan it ourselves this year. E is studying to be an event planner. Hmm.
   ... Nope; Mom died around the end of October, two months before her birthday. We'll get together by zoom on the day. I'm going to give myself a pass on this one. Dropped.
3. I hit the post-every-day goal of NaBloPoMo last year (after missing it by a few in 2018). Hopefully I can do it again.
   ... but I didn't, by one post. I did hit the much easier goal of at least 30 posts in 30 days. On that basis I'm going to say 97%.
4. I think a full 14 songs during FAWM is unlikely, but I'd like to do better than the five I wrote last year. I'll settle for seven.
   ... but blew it off completely. 0%.
5. Also under music, a concert at Westercon would be a good thing to aim for. I'll put a CD down as a stretch goal. How long has it been now?
   Between a 55-minute concert at Or e-Con and my portion of the Listeners' Choice concert at what would have been Consonance, I'm going to give mysef 100% for this even though neither of those was planned.
6. A little extra income would be nice. A full-time job is out of the question, but a couple of weekends of vacation rental would be possible, as would another writing gig.
   Nope. 5%, because I suppose I might have gotten off my tail and rented the Box Room a couple of times, except COVID. And perhaps a pig might have gone flying by while I wasn't looking.
7. Now that the yard is on its way to being under control (i.e. having money thrown at it), I can put the garden and gravel paths on the list, and add the driveway as a stretch.
   Quite a lot of money did get put into the yard, not that there's all that much to show for it. But still... 85% maybe.
8. I need to do a couple of things in the garage -- get rid of the recyclables, donatables, and trash in the northeast corner; and sort through the boxes of books. Having the rest of the family up together with an organizer would be nice, but it's not likely to happen until Spring at the earliest.
   I didn't get everything done, but L' did quite a lot inclucing trash and recyclables. So 90%?

Total, 267 out of a possible 700, which rounds up to 68%. That compares to 48% last year. I'm surprised. It probably just means that I'm setting the bar too low, which probably isn't all that good for me. Bye 2020 GIF - GIPHY (via Inkygirl on GIPHY)

Comments

[alatefeline]

I think if anything you deserve more points. You haven’t counted the labor of caring for Colleen’s health or your own aside from ‘didn’t get Covid’. Maybe a model like the ‘todo tada’ list would encourage you to include some of your other accomplishments and ‘grade’ on that basis, instead of a model of goal-setting in which everything is deductions subtracted from the hypothetical, improbable 100 percent complete? Like, you can do the things you planned and get points or not do them and not get points, but also, if it coulda been a goal and you actually worked hard for it, give extra credit? Anyway, I know :I: get demotivated by telling myself I should set the bar higher and motivated by finding things I :have: done to help me springboard into things I need/want to do.

:hums quietly about middle-sized bears and appreciating them:

[mdlbear]

Hmm. I'm still working on the goals for 2021 -- thanks for the suggestion!

A large part of my "done since" posts is keeping track of the extras. But you're right -- I don't give myself enough credit.