Boring is BORING

I'm making progress on planning 2023 goals, but not there yet.  Why not?  Because it doesn't excite me enough.  Usually, I'm pumped up over the list and the year ahead.  A lot of what I was planning was just meh.

What's forming is more broad categories which gives me agency as the year goes on.  Example: Hiking.  I have a list of possible hike goals, but I don't want to choose one hike.  I want to know what it is about a hike goal that interests me and make THAT the goal.  Trying to figure it out is taking a lot of thought for each.  Yet, it needs to be specific enough that it pushes me to do it.  I hike already so ANY OLD HIKE isn't what I want on the list.

I'm also less interested in numbers game -- like hike 50 times.  Then the focus is on numbers only and I miss too much of the experience.  Yet, it needs to be measurable in some way or how will I know I did it?

Hmmmm.  So much thought, but it's kind of fun.

Also, from the time I wrote a sloppy copy, I've already done a few of the simple things.  Have a Christmas cactus and get it to bloom.  Turns out that's super simple lol.  I thought it needed a year of care before it bloomed.

My list is usually a mix of easy, fun, boring (but I want to get it finished) and bigger pushes.  But everything makes me excited -- even doing the boring things.  This list the boring is BORING.  Nope.  Not what I want.

The list needs to feel different year to year.  Not just a repeat of last year with a small tweak.  That's why I think some of the list needs to have a totally different flavor.  How do I want to show up?  What am I working on as a person?  What interests me?  What do I want to try on?  Finding things in that vain -- almost like a treasure hunt to find things over the year to achieve the goal.  Does that make sense?  Not every item, of course, but some of them.

I've been doing this since 2018 and I think that's why it's needing to morph a little.  That said, I don't know if the list will look different from the outside, but it will have intentions that make it different.  Maybe I'll include that on some of the items too.

Hope your week is going well.  Start of the week for many today.  Later gators.