Bernadette Mayer's Writing Experiments - Try One! Or Try a Few.
Many of you have made New Year’s resolutions. You hope that they will provide a roadmap to help you achieve the goals that you have set for yourself for each year. Realistic goals, you think. And by all accounts, they are. But at the end of each year when you reach for your checklist of goals that you’d aimed to achieve, you realised that you’d fallen short. You did not achieve any, or only a few of the goals that you’d set yourself to achieve. Probably goals related to your personal well-being : You did not lose the weight you wanted to lose. You did not give up a habit that you wanted to give up. You did not get out of a toxic relationship. You did not forgive those persons who’d “sinned” against you… Probably goals related to a change of career or expanding your career options: You did not apply for any jobs although you actively hate the one that you have and the people with whom you work. You did not audit any courses to upgrade your skills although you know where to find these...
