So I did this challenge three years ago (wow, that long already????). Instead of a traditional New Year’s resolution which is expected to carry through the entire year, I picked four different goals and then tried them for ONE SINGLE WEEK in January.

Here, I’ll repost the meme I made last time haha.

Even though I only made my goals a week-long challenge for myself, I actually ended up making genuine positive changes in my life that I still uphold to this day! Last time, my goals were pretty sensible. I spent a week waking up earlier, cutting sugar, getting outside, and reading more often. Okay, this time my week goals are a bit more weirdo. BUT HANG IN THERE WITH ME, OKAY. I really do believe these things could benefit me! Or not. Honestly. Either way, I’ll hopefully find out if I try it for a week.

WEEK ONE: POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA EVERY DAY

I bet there are a lot of people making resolutions to get off social media lol. Soooo… I’m bad at this. I have a feeling that I could make fun and engaging content. But I just never do. I never share stuff about my life or writing or when my blogs come out or ANYTHING. So I’m going to try it out for a week and see how I feel. NOT COMMITTING TO NOTHIN’. But if it feels manageable, then maybe I could go for more of a social media presence.

Not to overshare, but posting to social media inexplicably terrifies me. Like I have a desire to do it. I desperately want attention, and I daydream about getting attention, but I also feel getting attention is bad?? Like other people/things deserve more attention than me. So it seems like a silly resolution, but it is important to me to reclaim some space in this world… Thanks… I’ll send you payment for the therapy session later.

WEEK TWO: GET GORGEOUS EVERY SINGLE DAY

Yeah so. I just never do this anymore. I’m home all day, taking care of little kids, and taking the time to do it feels impossible some days. So I’m going to try to dress up. Just out of curiosity. Like… does it even really matter? Does it make a difference or not?

WEEK THREE: POTTY TRAIN MY DAUGHTER

Exactly what it sounds like. I tried and failed several months ago, but she’s way more ready for it now. So I’ll take the whole week to extensively potty train.

WEEK FOUR: WRITE LIKE STEVEN KING

I don’t mean prose or technique. I’m talking about his daily routine. Specifically, that he writes two thousand words and then immediately edits them same day. That freaks me out! Not the 2k words daily but the EDITING STRAIGHT AFTER. My routine is to sloppily draft the entire book and then big-picture-edit it into oblivion until I’ve re-written the book five hundred times. I have such an aversion to the idea of cleaning up a chapter that’ll have to be removed or changed anyway. This must be a confidence thing. Or an “I already have a professional developmental editor” thing. I think I’m at a point in my craft where I can try doing this. Because to have a fairly clean first draft would be euphoria to me.

So those are my challenges!! I’ll let you know next month how they all go!