As you may know, Gretchen Rubin, the best-selling author of The Happiness Project and many other books, challenges people to create a to-do list of what they want to accomplish in the coming year. The items can be easy or ambitious. While I don’t always accomplish everything on my list, I enjoy making it and keeping it handy because I like nothing better than checking things off!
So, without further ado, here is my 22 for 2022 list.
- Finish the first draft of my book. This is the big goal for the year, guys!
- Plan a day of fun with each one of my nieces and nephews. I have five total, and I’d like to know them better. This is my favorite item on this list. I’m so excited to do this.
- Replace my driver’s license with a Real ID (I carried this over from last year’s list)
- Purchase, frame, and hang new artwork for the house. Some of the pieces I own were in my first apartment after college. Yikes!
- Take a family vacation to Maine to see Acadia National Park
- Read 35 books this year, but at least half of them must be titles I already own.
- Build up my personal brand on LinkedIn by posting there 2-3 times a week.
- Make my bed every morning and do the dishes every night.
- Learn Instagram. It’s time.
- Decorate my home office to create a haven for working, writing, and reading.
- Clean out and reorganize the laundry room to make it a more functional space.
- Visit a new indie bookstore in every town I go to and buy something to support their business.
- Lose 20 lbs and keep it off. (Friends, please don’t send me your suggestions for how to do this. I know you mean well, but I have a plan. Thanks!)
- Find ways to work smarter, not harder.
- Submit articles for publication to get my name out there.
- Be a better literary citizen and find more ways to support other writers in their work.
- Attend a Shabbat Service at least once a month.
- Reserve 22 minutes of “me time” every day to read, walk, nap, pet my dog, or do whatever.
- Drink more water. (I’m so bad at this)
- Create a system to handle all my papers – including magazines. I have so many magazines.
- Go on more date nights with my husband.
- TBD – I’m reserving this slot for a goal to be determined at a later date.
Does anyone else make a list like this? If so, please share!
XO,
Elisa