G is for Goals

As the A to Z Challenge continues some of my goals for the days, weeks and months to come are starting to be clearer. I did do a guest post on the subject of my goals earlier this year. Due to some not so positive things happening in my personal life since the beginning of the year, I have not been able to concentrate fully on those resolutions.

Now, it is time for me to refocus on my goals, set new ones and more forward!

• Blogging
  • A to Z Challenge
    • finish the challenge without stress and with a post per day
    • reply to all of those lovely comments, sorry I am behind
    • visit as many new blogs as I can, (I have realised that very often I cannot read more than 3-4 posts in a row)
    • leave many comments, likes and share on twitter, follow new blogs
  • Guest posting
    • have the possibility to do some guest posts in 2016
    • have more guests for Discovering Traditions, more on that here, so do you have a tradition to share?
  • Interviews and profiles
    • I have always enjoyed doing interviews, and trust me I have interviewed a a lot of people (musicians, European officials, ambassadors, journalists). Thus I would like to start doing interviews with bloggers, writers, artists, entrepreneurs on my blog, if you are interested, then let me know
    • I will soon start doing little profiles, of blogs or Instagram accounts, small businesses, I have one coming up in May, which in a way is a commissioned job for my sister 🙂
  • Take my blog to the next level
    • my blog is a quite time consuming hobby, that I treat as more than just a hobby, thus I am eying ways to monetise (affiliation, sponsors), without my blog loosing it’s soul, it would actually enable me to focus a bit more on blogging
    • maybe self-hosting will be a future step, but that one scares me
• Writing
  • Write regularly for my blog
  • Work on my book that I started for NaNoWriMo
  • Work on my collection of short stories
• Art
  • Continue painting regularly – you might have noticed that many of my A to Z posts have been accompanied by a water colour painting
  • get my hands a bit dirty with other forms of art (sculpting, charcoals etc)
• Work
  • German lessons
    • Finally do my German lessons page in English for this blog…
    • Start teaching on skype
    • Find more students /be found by them – tell people that I am looking for students at the moment
    • Look into doing online courses that I can record in advance (that will be after A to Z)
  • Writing (yes it has been mentioned above, but this is work related writing)
    • write for clients – find clients/be found by clients
    • look into freelance journalism gigs
• Other things
  • Spend a lot of time with my daughter, now that she is starting to water paint herself we have a new activity we share
  • Spend a lot of quality time with S
  • Have some amazing family moments

Now, this is probably only a very small portion of my goals, but it is already long enough…

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Gourmet gnome Gorgio grinned greedily at great Greta Gabriel in Göttingen, Germany. 

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During the month of April, I am participating in the A to Z Challenge, my theme is authenticity and eclecticism, which in my book go hand in hand.

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