Happy New Year! You can tell who’s half-empty & who’s half-full by how they feel at the new year. I’m definitely half-full. I love love love the new year! Fresh start, all past failings vanish into a mist and life’s full of promise and potential! Huzzah!
My favorite part of the new year, and the chief occupation of my New Year’s Day, is the Überlist, my big fat to-do list for the year. The idea behind the Überlist is to come up with a number of easy, achievable goals for the year, so you can pat yourself on the back all year long. That’s the theory: easy peasy lemon squeezy. In practice, I always make it way too ambitious (part of the half-full pathology).
I give myself until the first week of the year to make my list. Last year I also made a list of alternates I could call upon when I decided a month in that one of my critical goals from January first was actually completely idiotic and I had no desire to do it. That way you can swap out the dead goals with some lively ones, and still get credit for them at year’s end. It keeps you from getting defeatist.
As soon as I’ve finalized it, it goes into my Year of the Tightwad datebook! Huzzah!
(By the way, you should totally buy one of my fabulous datebooks, which feature a big section at the front to enumerate your Überlist. All the covers here have been sold, but every OOAK cover comes from vintage magazine ads from the same era.)
I have to get one from you soon. I actually have a need for a planner this year. Yay!
Yay! Happy New Year!! I have #12–Auto w/ Skis :)
I can see mine in that picture! (#19 False Lashes) I love it so much. I’ve been looking for a long time for a really GOOD organizer/planner and this is exactly what I needed! I hope you never stop making them. Take care and Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you!!!! The calendars look great!
Sausage School! Cheese School! Rah rah rah!
Hi Nikol, You are so practical and grounded….makes me want to start a list which I never do. I just allow all my ideas to roll around in my head until it either goes away or comes to fruition. It is looking like I can’t get away from home for awhile with this cold weather. Burr. I’m sure my chicken and sheep wish they lived with you…we carry water to them. Plus the chickens have no light so no eggs for us. Keep warm and I will plan on seeing you at Spinsters this month…and this weekend in Wamego.
take care,d
I’ve been inspired by you for a long time and this is the second year that I’ve done my own ChÜberlist (Oooh, see what I did there?) all thanks to you! I think you’re keen :D