One Goal is Getting Bigger than the Others

I think I've become a bit addicted to one of the goals and have started forsaking some of the others. I've been so taken up with learning languages and reading about learning languages and finding the best language learning programs and strategies that things like my health goals and even the finance goals haven't been getting much attention. This of course will have to change. In the near future I'll write a post on what I'm doing for the language learning goals and how I'm studying but after that I need to calm down with studying about learning and retaining a language. I also need to adjust my goals for language learning. With all that said it's time to find a gym, write a post about nutrition and another about a work out plan. Also I need to reevaluate and get more detailed with my finances.

The other piece of the puzzle that has been totally forsaken is the art goal. It's true I'm busy studying and learning languages but I need to make time for that outlet even if it's in a bar with a beer, the writing must be done. I don't like to really count the writing I do in my English class because I don't really get to choose what to write. The other two things I've done virtually nothing about is learning the guitar, I haven't even read through a book on the basics yet, and my travel journal, I have a journal but I haven't written anything in it yet about traveling and where I've traveled, all that's in there are some German exercises I did awhile back. So that's the way it stands now, I gotta buck up or shut up if I want this journey to continue.

Art Goal, What can you do? There are only 24 hours in a day.

Art Goal- Setback Planning Motivation

So one of the goals is to become a published working writer. But it shouldn't be any surprise that at some point goals can clash and one or two can get in the way of progress of another. This is that situation. I finally finished the first draft of my little novella and I was in the middle of the first re-write when school got in the way. Now full time school and full time job leaves no time for strenuous re-writes (and would probably make the re-writes bad if I go from my nose being in a book to not getting any sort of mental rest and then attempt to fix grammar and clarity). I'll have to think up a plan so my writing doesn't suffer and I don't get too far behind in it and worst of all so I don't just forget about it.

Forgetting about it happened a few years back when I got stuck in a dead end job that was 'paying enough'. I just didn't do any writing and didn't really care to. I don't really want that to happen, the writing goal may be the most important one to me aside from the Family Goal. So a plan needs to be concocted so that I write or handle the re-writing of something at least once a week.

I only have about 30 pages done and I think a good motivational tool would be my wife. If I just fed her a few pages to correct and had her write notes on them that I don't see until my re-write is over that might motivate me to keep on writing just for the simple fact to have something for her to read. This might be the solution and I'll run it by her when we're (finally) back together and then the journey will go on.