Snowflake Challenge

[tellshannon815]

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.

Okay, well, in terms of fannish goals, I'm going to go back to one I had last year about getting a few more fandoms done for the 100fandomschallenge, which I started in 2019 and still have a long way to go. Also planning on getting as many of my WIPs as possible finished - still need to find a way of completely screwing up the history of England (for context, that story is a Legends of Tomorrow fic set in season 3 where the Princes in the Tower are pulled into the present day, it's decided that they can't be restored to 1483 because in the original timeline they were never seen after that and returning them would change history, but Nate and Zari decide to try anyway, I now need to decide how that screws up the timeline.)

Also planning to try and make some progress with my increasingly longer list of shows to check out.

In terms of non-fannish goals, I realised recently that what I sometimes need to do is acknowledge when it's time to let go of or scale back on some goals - my last but one manager, not so affectionately known as "Cornelius Fudge" (she had the same trick of burying her head in the sand, forming her own conclusions about what was happening and acting on that and then only realising they were wrong when the evidence smacked her in the face, and not investigating anything properly. The whole time I worked for her felt like living in the world of Voldemort's return). Anyway, one issue with Fudge was that because she didn't spend enough time with the staff she managed (I understand now, but didn't then, that the structure in place was a part of the problem - she managed lots of people, based at about five different sites, while she worked from another one altogether and never spent any time with the teams), she had no idea what actually went on on a day to day basis, and was trying to set us goals without understanding that what she was setting wasn't really achievable, and not working with us to try and understand the reasons why they might not be and trying to help us work out what might be. And for a long time, I would try as hard as I could to still meet those goals anyway, and I realised recently that there's still a part of me that tries to live up to that even now, long after that manager's gone. So I'm setting myself the goal of knowing when it's time to let go of goals.

Comments

[brokenhighways]

True talk! Sometimes goals aren't achievable and instead of forging ahead, we need to take a minute and figure out to shift the goal into something that is doable or start over again.

[tellshannon815]

I hope that's going to be a lot easier going forward than in the above mentioned old job, but I will do my best.

[bluedreaming]

That's so true! Knowing when to let go is just as critical as persevering.
Wish you all the best with the fandoms challenge and your WIPs!

[tellshannon815]

Thank you so much, will need!

[komadori]

Those are some good goals. It's really important to be flexible with yourself, too. Best of luck!

[tellshannon815]

Thank you!

[peaked]

I like your goal of letting go of some goals, especially the ones that aren't serving you. Sometimes we think we need X in our life, and it turns out that it has no place.

Your LOT fic sounds great! I hope you have fun writing it. I'm sure you'll come up with a great way it screws up the timeline.

[tellshannon815]

Thank you! I know I'm going to have it somehow that the Tudors don't rule (which is actually one of Nate's arguments in favour of returning the princes, that Henry VIII was a nut anyway and he was helping save six wives), trying to think now what would be worse. Half considering a possibility where the rumoured planned marriage of Richard III and Elizabeth of York did come off, resulting in a "Joffrey Baratheon" type offspring.