New Year’s 2019/me
Note: I am sharing the process piece that is my jumble of 2019 resolutions, intentions, bucket list and personal mission statement. Jumble is a good word, because I’m pretty much a well-intentioned wreck of a human, and that is just how it is. That’s even more than okay. To 2019, I say “bring it.” Also, “impeach the motherfucker.”
2019 Bucket List
Interview Nora McInerny
Run in some road races
Make a vision board (as in list)
Try on makeup at a makeup counter
Finish writing projects and return to 2017 goal, which was “Crush. It.” (In regard to writing)
Go to DC and walk the halls of Congress
2019 Writing Goals
Interview Nora McInerny
Finish memoir
Revise novel and find someone to help with revision/editing
Get picture book manuscripts toward completion (goal: five)
Bad Babysitters revision
Keep writing essays
Any other short pieces
Search for agent
Personal Mission
Help women, especially young women, rise up. Do so as a supporter, collaborator, creative thinker, champion, and friend.
2019 Community Engagement Goals
Find a personal mission and act upon it for this 2018–2020 period that continues, horribly, to encompass the Trump era, one that will work to stop it, even though as a single person there’s a limit to my own effectiveness, to be clear about the ways I’m contributing to claiming what I want this country to stand for rather than to resist only and react only
Raise dollars for Safe Passage, CLPP, and Lindsay
Choose one avenue toward strengthening democracy that I can put energy into and help
Give more consistent voice to mental health issues in some way
Help PaintBox find solid footing/sponsors
2019 Intentions
Trust my feet, my heart, my smarts, my abilities, my strength
Take time away from my people without guilt, but as a matter of course, pace, focus, rest and respite (note: do not demonize or make pathology of the notion that respite is necessary to me)
Contemplate an office
Throw a lot of stuff away
Develop self-confidence
Get consistent sleep (enough of it)
Become more comfortable being vulnerable
Make more time with Hosie
Create more kinds of time with the kids (time doing tasks, playing games, going places etc)
New Year’s Resolutions
Accept depression, not give into it, but incorporate it with less shame, more compassion and more self-care
Be willing to share how much I am struggling when I’m struggling
Practice being kinder to myself
Practice self-confidence
Spend more time with friends
Spend more time with Hosie
Run a little bit, including a few races
Continue to work on sleep — more reading before bed, less worrying about politics at night
Work a lot with others
Do the work with joy
