New Outlook

A New outlook sounds good for the coming New Year. I’m sure that many of you can relate to that sentiment. I am trying to have a new outlook on what to expect. For starters lets just all admit that there has been a bleak dark cloud hanging over the year 2020. So I am entering 2021 with a good outlook and a hopeful mindset.

I am writing this on my tablet but with a new case that has a keyboard attached that my husband got me for Christmas. He got it for me in hopes that it will help me be able write more as my tablet is something I have with me more than my laptop. So I have a more portable and compact way to keep up with my social media accounts, including this blog and have more opportunities to work on different aspects of my writing.

So my hopes for the upcoming year include writing more, as my day job tends to overshadow my writing this year I hope to over come that for 2021. My YouTube channel will be added to at each available chance I get. However, editing a YouTube video takes a lot of time so between, work, writing, all my social media accounts and the YouTube channel my husband and I started as a way to make people laugh, plus my overwhelming need to have a minute to relax after a long days work, it will be a learning curve still on how to find a balance.

I am also hopeful that I will find a way to finish my first novel. I am so close but there is still a lot to do. Writing a Thriller, filled with terror, action, romance and a serial killer was actually fairly easy to accomplish for me with the first draft. Then came the logistics. The details, the editing (ugh editing is the worst part really!), letting someone else read it, which ultimately involves more editing, then writing a blurb, writing a synopsis (Also turning out to be another worst part), and trying to find an agent willing to take on a multi-genre writer, can be a long process. Especially when it’s my first novel. So here’s hoping I find the time needed in this upcoming year.

Having New Years resolutions are great but be careful not to overwhelm yourself. I am setting some realistic goals….ie..

• Finding a way to balance everything, as I said before. Without making myself feel unaccomplished if I don’t do something I hoped I would get done. I need to remember that I am one person and I can only do so much. But I still need to find the balance of knowing when I can push myself to do more than I set out to do.
• Finding more time to write is a must if I am ever going to publish my novel, making time to do so when I can is important (which will be made much easier by my new more portable way to type).
• Having a more hopeful outlook on this year. My husband and I have had a few rough years in a row here, involving extended family issues that we never thought we would face. We have been each others rocks and gotten through every bit of it because we have had each other to hold the other up when needed. So I am starting 2021 with a more hopeful perspective. I will try to focus on the positives whenever possible.
• Finally, my last goal for this next year is to enjoy more of the little things. More moments that are precious. Enjoy more time with those I care about. Make time to de-stress with my husband more often, by finding ways to disconnect a bit so we don’t feel so overwhelmed all the time.

I hope that you are able to find some ways to set realistic goals to help yourself have a great New Year. Most importantly, make time for those you love. Don’t hold back when you feel like you should tell someone how much you love them, even when its not a holiday. People, including yourself deserve to hear that they are loved and appreciated. Everyone needs a little love and encouragement.

Unfortunately, I believe that there are too many people who hold back and are influenced by how others tell them to feel, that they never live their life to the fullest. So live a new year not full of regrets but rather full of happy memories.

Thank you so much for reading my blog and feel free to share a couple of your New Years Resolutions in the comments below. Happy New Year!

Until Next Time…JUST KEEP WRITING

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