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My Chinese horoscope for 2008 gave me this rating for the year,

“37% (2 favorable, 1 neutral and 9 unfavorable months)”

I am glad I saw this at the end of the year. It was a tough year on many levels.  The challenges were many and forced me to make decisions and to take steps I might not have done as quickly.

There were a lot of fun things that showed up in the midst of everything.

I was published on Beliefnet.com for the first time. I was published in one book and mentioned as a resource in another.  I have met some fabulous people online and in person.  I have steadily increased my writing and have expanded my media empire. Also I have learned many new and fun things about the internet, social media, video, podcasting and writing.

In 2009 I will have a show on Blog Talk Radio and I am committed to publishing something substantial. I plan to implement all this learning into creating interesting things for myself and other people this year.

I did peek and 2009 promises to be better for this Rooster.  I agree.  I plan to make it a better one.

So many goals, so much time.

Goals

In a December 22 article in The New Yorker, Dana Goodyear writes about a new phenomenon of writing in Japan, in I ? Novels. She says the following,

The cell-phone novel, or keitai shosetsu, is the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age. For a new form, it is remarkably robust. Maho i-Land, which is the largest cell-phone-novel site, carries more than a million titles, most of them by amateurs writing under screen handles, and all available for free. According to the figures provided by the company, the site, which also offers templates for blogs and home pages, is visited three and a half billion times a month.

Maybe in your goal setting for 2009 you didn’t plan to write a micro novel for the cell phone.  Why not? Are you rehashing the same old goals from year to year hoping that this year you will actually accomplish one of them?

What outrageous goal could you set instead for this year? Pick one.  Investigate the Japanese form of novel writing, or, try and create your own new form. At least brainstorm some possible ideas. What could you do for 2009 that will be different?

Looking forward to the future. Sandra Lee Schubert 2008
Looking forward to the future. Sandra Lee Schubert 2008