I’m mildly excitable when it comes to hatching a plan. I get wind of an idea and I’ve dragged out the notebook and I’m madly scribbling away. I make lists, I scheme up ideas and plan plan plan. The start of November is like go time for 2014 planning to begin for me in earnest. The long-term plans are in place and ticking away but the short-term plans time is now!
So I buy a diary.
I sharpen those pencils.
I drag out the markers and the butcher paper.
Wash off the blackboard.
Finish my bloody tax return. Late again. Man I hate that about myself.
And I get ready.
There are a few key areas I want to make plan around. My home and work we want to do to really personalise it, make it ours, our Vegas 2015 vow renewal and this blog with all its potential and living my dream goodness becoming a full-time thing. These are all things I want to achieve in the next 12-24 months. They are well and truly on the list.
So I scribble ideas. I plot and plan. I discount very few of my wild, half-assed, half-baked and undercooked ideas. They’ll have their day in the sun. I could go on scratching my handwriting across the pages for hours. I’m inspired. Motivated. There’s so much I want to achieve that it floods out of me in an incoherent stream of chicken scrawl. My handwriting really is terrible. I blame the nineties.
You know how you just get excited about what’s to come. About life. About what’s possible for you. Well that’s me today. I’m that person. So excuse me while I check my post box one more time to see if my diary has arrived. Pardon me while I buy MORE Sharpie markers. I’m going somewhere. Somewhere exciting. And before I go, I’ve got to make a chart!
And p.s. will you come with me? It sounds like fun, right?
Hi! I’m Melissa Walker Horn. Around here, they call me Suger. I’m the Chief Blogger and doer of all the things here at Suger Coat It. Blogging since 1901; I love a casual ootd, taking photos, and writing about things that irk or inspire me. I love wine and cheese, long days at the beach and spending time with my family. I make stuff for the internet over at Chalkboard Digital. You know, living the sweet life.
I am SO with you xo
AWESOME! Glad to hear it.
I have whiteboards filled with ideas 🙂 Bring on 2014
Woot! Bring it on indeed.
I worked through this: http://www.susannahconway.com/2012/12/2013-workbook/ last year (what a fantastic resource! I can’t wait for the 2014 workbook). I sat down for about three hours and filled it in, and then didn’t look at it again for another ten months, until I found it last week.
Unbelievably, I’d acheived some 90% of what I’d written about, even some goals that I’d forgotten I’d indentified. Just proves how powerful spending this planning time can be, it plants ideas into the very depths of you that take hold, even if you don’t recognise them.
That is SO great. You’re right of course. Writing down your goals, taking the time to plan them out, even for a moment is SO powerful. Here’s to a fabulous 2014 for you and your family. x
Plans to go to problogger next year!?!?!?! I really want to, i’ve put blog events for long enough, no excuses next year, nothing is standing in my way 🙂
Did you see them mention the dates will be August next year. Tentatively 29/30 from memory. See you there lady! I’ll be going again. It’s too wonderful not to.
Yep saw it. Lots of notice so plenty of time to plan around it 🙂
Indeed. Get organised lady. I expect to see you there!
Plotting and planning is one thing I love about life, even completely unrealistic abstract things. I love planners and the second I finally get myself a fulltime job for next year I am buying an Erin COndron planner 🙂 I love having big ideas and plans for the future, it makes me excited to have things to work for and love forward too 🙂 xx
Yes to all of this! Yes, yes and yes. I love a good planner and things to look forward to just make everything worthwhile.
I started planning for 2014 -2016 months ago!! So glad I’m not the only planner.. My hubby thinks its crazy!! 🙂
Haha. Legend. We bow to our planning queen. 😉 You’re not crazy. Promise.
Sounds like an awesome plan!!! I have notebooks and notebooks full of blog and biz ideas, and I love that you ‘discount’ very few of your ideas and expect them to have their ‘day in the sun’. I can REALLY relate to that!
Two days ago I pulled out the Kikki K monthly planner that I bought at the start of this year and barely used. I’ve now filled four pages with ebook launch plans, social media schedules and of course the very important November/December calendar – to keep me from going crazy in a month with seven family birthdays!!!! I think I need some Sharpies though…
Look forward to seeing your plans and dreams and schemes getting their day in the sun!
Thank you Brigid. Me TOO! And an unused planned is a sad thing indeed. Glad to hear you pulled it out and started filling it up. All the ideas for the eBook sound like fun, can’t wait to see it all come into fruition.
Of course I’m coming. I’m so down with it. I bought a big diary last week, wheels are in motion baby. You know I tick like you, I have all sorts of ideas and schemes. There’s no end to the crazy in my head, something is always hatching. Can’t wait to see what the next 12-24 months hold for you and for me. Lets go get em’.
Haha. Of course you are. Of course you do. And of course you have. LOVE IT.