Weekly Goals

1) Finished the Hobbit! Have watched 2 of the 3 Hobbit movies so far, so I want to A) Watch the 3rd and final Hobbit movie this week, and B) Continue reading The Fellowship of the Ring. For the first time in my life I'm enjoying Tolkien, and the Fantasy genre nonetheless! I have a good feeling reading this genre will greatly improve my writing abilities.

2) Do a lot more walking. As my car has graciously decided to have a few minor problems (but still concerning,) I think I'll be taking the bus to work and/or doing a lot more walking. My goal is 10,000 steps a day, which I had been faithfully doing before!

3) Giving myself a word count hasn't seemed to work for me, so this week I'm going to try to write one chapter of a draft that I started a while back. I'll just get to it and see where the story takes off. (From what I've heard, some stories are for practice and never get released anyways.)

4) Going to meet with a potential client this week to discuss the possibility of teaching/tutoring a private class in American Government and another in Literature. This would be great as I truly miss teaching but don't miss the school system.

5) Going to listen to the music of one particular composer a week using a book by Patrick Kavanaugh, The Spiritual Lives of Great Composers. (he lists twelve great Composers.) So this week begins with George Friedrich Handel. Perhaps after that I can move on to more contemporary composers.

6) Upping my chess game! I want to play at least one rapid game a day (10 - 30 minutes duration) and perhaps 1 to 2 daily games (those give you a full 24 hours between moves.) I also want to get to level 10 in the stone level puzzles (Chess.com, I'm at level 4), and do one daily lesson/review one game by previous players (novices to grandmasters.) I'll also review one game of my own each day.

This is going to be a tall order but I'm ready to give it a shot!!!