February Resolutions and Other Things

Yesterday, the wonderful Dr Marple tweeted about monthly resolutions. One of the things I find difficult about year-long goals at the moment is the uncertainty of the future, so I am going to give monthly resolutions a go. Starting now. Although, I am going to stick with goal-related vocabulary.
 
So, goals for this month are simple:

1. Finish my application for Fellowship to the HEA. This is due to be submitted in March, but I want to have the actual application finished very soon, so as to get my references sorted out as well. (Look forward to some fun future posts about teaching and self-reflexivity!)
2. Work on the long version plan for the Next Big Project. This is the ‘master copy’ of the research programme that gets edited down for various applications and includes various things like an abstract, a year-by-year plan, differences between two and three year versions of the project, what the outputs will be, and of course what the actual project is about, and some representative examples, which keep being added to as I keep reading.
3. Work on job applications.

 
I am also going to work though some of my (various length) goals in a Goals Journal, which I will start today. I am the kind of person who likes to write things down, and this seems a bit naff even to me. But, I am going to give it a shot, and see if committing my goals to paper, and setting definite end-dates for various things will help or not. Does anyone else keep a goals journal? How do you organise it, or what tips do you have for others thinking of starting one?
 
In other news (and related to my previous blog post here) I am now blogging on the Post-PhD Life blog over at jobs.ac.uk. My author page is here, where you can find all the post I have written (currently one, but soon more).