Planning for the New Year: 2012

CAROLYN’S COMPOSITIONS

PLANNING FOR THE NEW YEAR: 2012

Oops…I goofed…I’m among the many persons who are still typing 2011 instead of 2012…

     Planning for the future…The time to plan for your future is now…

     The title of the article—actually, an advertisement—drew me in: Plan for the future. I’ve always tried to work on a long-term, intermediate-term and short-term plan on whatever projects I’m working on and in whatever stage I am in my life.

     I’ve moved through my childhood stage, early adult life stage, parenting stage, midlife stage and am currently in my late life stage.

     Each stage had its activities. For me

• early life was learning the ways of the world,
• young adult life was preparing for a work future,
• early adult was marriage, children, working for an adoption agency while operating a child care home,
• intermediate adult life starting a three-year craft business and raising two teenagers while moving into domestic violence work,
• later life was working with domestic violence issues, and
• my current life is founded on writing.

     My three-stage plan can be demonstrated by using my novel writing plan:

• Short term goal: write a