In which I set some goals

One of the things that came out of my pages today is a personal goal to be a more active listener, especially with family members. I was specific about what behaviors I was aiming for, and I hope I can follow through with this. (I did not tackle the mental behaviors yet, but took aim at the more doable physical behaviors, like providing full physical attention. We'll see how the mental attention follows, and work on that separately, since that will be harder. Most people talking to me have to compete with the rather "loud" and constant litany of thoughts running through my head....I'm *always* trying to sort out at least two conversations when people are talking to me... )

Anyway, that brings up the whole idea of goal setting, something else I would like to improve at. I'm better at setting vague unreachable goals than I am about setting well-defined, concrete goals. One nice thing about that snowflake method is that it gives you well defined goals to reach for, in fairly do-able increments. My long-term goal is to write a novel. But, like eating an elephant, it has do be done one bite at a time, and one actually has to get around to taking the bites in order to get anywhere. So my goal for friday is to do up the character sheet for a minor character that isn't as minor as it was starting out, and to expand the character sheet for one major character. I think, barring everyone self-destructing from work-related stress, that this is doable for Friday even though it's already Wednesday. So that's my goal. And if people care, I can update them on the listening goal as well. I think being a better listener will make me a better writer. I could be wrong about that, but I am hoping it will expand my point of view and help me with character variety.