2021 Goals and Intentions
Jan. 4th, 2021 06:44 pmComing off of a year that was wildly unpredictable makes the idea of making any sort of goals seem like even more of an exercise in hubris than usual. However, since I am a person who thrives with structure and focus, here are my goals (more like intentions again) for 2021.
Writing. This is a perpetual goal! Again this year I want to write in a way that lets me feel inside the experience. A good intention for this year is to spend more dedicated time writing with a distraction-light environment (meaning: close all the other tabs except the one I'm writing in).
Strengthen connections. This makes me so happy that I'm keeping it again this year. Continue to prioritize relationships and time with friends and family and be open to new people. Get into the habit of texting people more often.
Connect to God/the divine. This is another intention that I want to keep at the forefront of my mind. It's hard to know what this will look like this year, but here at the beginning, I want to at least continue on with my partial Shabbat practice.
Be more weird. I still want to exercise my weirdness. I'm not sure what this will look like at all this year.
Feel my feelings. Something I noticed in 2020 was how much I wasn't feeling my feelings in the moment - they tended to come out later, like in anxiety dreams or crying while doing yoga. This is a thing I want to work on. I'm not sure exactly what that means or how to go about it, but I'm going to put it on my check-in spreadsheet so I keep it in mind and look for opportunities to focus on this.
Writing. This is a perpetual goal! Again this year I want to write in a way that lets me feel inside the experience. A good intention for this year is to spend more dedicated time writing with a distraction-light environment (meaning: close all the other tabs except the one I'm writing in).
Strengthen connections. This makes me so happy that I'm keeping it again this year. Continue to prioritize relationships and time with friends and family and be open to new people. Get into the habit of texting people more often.
Connect to God/the divine. This is another intention that I want to keep at the forefront of my mind. It's hard to know what this will look like this year, but here at the beginning, I want to at least continue on with my partial Shabbat practice.
Be more weird. I still want to exercise my weirdness. I'm not sure what this will look like at all this year.
Feel my feelings. Something I noticed in 2020 was how much I wasn't feeling my feelings in the moment - they tended to come out later, like in anxiety dreams or crying while doing yoga. This is a thing I want to work on. I'm not sure exactly what that means or how to go about it, but I'm going to put it on my check-in spreadsheet so I keep it in mind and look for opportunities to focus on this.