August: Personal and Work Goals
Rabbit rabbit! And just like that it’s August. I’ve been unmotivated to write (just unmotivated, period) and it has a lot to do with the narrative around childless women not having a stake in society. The predictable defense is “oh but VP Harris is a stepmother so of COURSE she isn’t one of those childless harpies!” instead of “women without children are actual real humans so of course they have a stake in society, wtf’s wrong with you?” All of that crap plus some age-related insecurity about my appearance have me laid low.
But I refuse to let the blog suffer, so I found a good old fashioned Journaling Prompts for August page to help me out. August 1’s prompt is what are my personal and work goals for August?
At home I want to:
- watercolor paint regularly – I want to do this so badly but I have a block because I suck at it, and I hate looking at my own suck work
- schedule a blood donation
- drop unwanted things at Goodwill (I feel like all I do is get rid of things)
- visit a new-to-me-beach
- maybe even eat at a new-to-me restaurant
- not be depressed about September/fall
- plant fall crops
- find a new newsletter client for my blog, or figure out what’s going on with MailerLite
And at work I want to:
- get a procedure up and running that automatically adds members who choose to auto-renew their membership to a special segmented group. It’s not working. They are added, but not removed if they remove auto-renew. It’s like the old Roach Motel commercial
- prepare for strategic meeting in September. I have so many ideas, but not so much time to flesh out how they’d work
That list seems scant, but I have a whack of PTO to take this month to avoid losing days and I have to fit those two things in between everything else that fills my day.
And that’s it. Meh. Blah.
**2 Comments**
As far as the watercolor painting….you can only get better. But, like anything else you want to be good at, you have to fall and get back up and try again. I understand blocks with creativity very well, and find that if I just get started, no matter how badly, it usually gets better. Otherwise, it goes into the trash, and I get out a new piece of paper and go at it again. There’s no such thing as a wanna be artist. Everyone has talent. It’s the comparing yourself to others that causes all the angst. So, just do it, it’s good for your soul — Kurt Vonnegut.
This weekend it’s going to be hot and stormy so I’m going to definitely carve time to put colors on paper, no matter what. Thank you. <3