Goals for the Next 12 Months

There’s a lot I’d love to do and get done over the next year or so.  So much so that I think it’d be helpful to make a list and see if I’ll end up double-booking and tripping over myself.

A couple of quick caveats:

1. My old boss used to make yearly goals for our team and would always frame them as “125% of what we actually think we can do next year,” meaning that we knew it was either too ambitious or we’d get sidetracked now and then, but that we’d get MOST of the stuff done. I’d like to think of this list in a similar way.
2. I deserve the right (as if this is some kind of legally binding document) to make updates or ignore the entire thing depending on opportunities and/or troubles that come up over the course of time.

Here we go:

OCTOBER

• Attend uncle’s interment ceremony in Arlington
• Go to Houston to see The Great Zoo Switcheroo
• Write two 10-minute plays while getting zero sleep during 14/48 at the Vortex
  • And real-time blog about it like last year!
• Drive to west Texas
  • Take photos!

NOVEMBER

• Keep sense of humor about the election no matter what
• Write 2-3 chapters of new YA book during National Novel Writing Month
• Write 10-minute play for annual ScriptWorks Fling
  • Help organize happy hour for it
• Decide whether to apply for the Seattle Fringe Festival
• Decide whether to run half marathon in winter

DECEMBER

• Begin rehearsals for Your Neighborhood Association
• Become father of a teenager (what???)

JANUARY

• Produce 1-2 pieces at FronteraFest Short Fringe
• Host family from west and east coasts for a week
• Decide whether to register for the Tour de Lopez in April
• Figure out how to raise shower head in kids’ bathroom so it suits growing tall people
  • Give Ernesto and his Creative Contracting a call?

FEBRUARY

• Run half marathon (if registered)
• Head to Seattle for Fringe (if applied/accepted)
• Else look to write for a local storytelling event or get a headstart on March goals

MARCH

• Produce site-specific play or plays or benefit
  • At a place I know well, Jesse’s plot of land or someone else’s property
  • (proposals accepted!)

 

APRIL

• Ride in Tour de Lopez (if registered)
• Spend time contemplating mom’s birthday and 4-year anniversary of writing the weekly SW newsletter
• Compose letter to sister’s school with thoughts about the future
  • Reminder: sis’s b-day is April 28th (you have a bad memory for dates)

MAY

• Travel somewhere with dad
  • Work through his preferences

JUNE

• Remain employed
• Create a meme (despite sons’ objections)
• Write another chapter of YA novel

JULY

• Record bluegrass versions of songs from My Hat and Massive Imp, including
  • Scurvy
  • Rokey Smobinson
  • Massive Imp
• Write another chapter of YA novel

AUGUST

• Travel with dad and kids
• Run the Hood to Coast again (if selected by Tom and team)

SEPTEMBER

• Produce the play or benefit idea from March
• Join PTA of my kid’s new high school (what???)
• Publish plan for next 12 months (dependent on motivation and success of this plan)