Hope everyone had a good week, and that those in the US are not affected by the storms. Here in the UK it is dismal, but nothing out of the ordinary for January.
This week's writing prompt, from In Writing, is: where do ideas come from? How do you choose what to research and write about? And how and when do you know if an idea will bear fruit? I'm curious to see how that works in different disciplines. Is is about, in the words of one of Hattie Crisell's interviewees, about 'connecting two disparate things'? Is it about accidentally stumbling on something - in an archive, in a text, an unexpected result of an experiment?
Last week's goals
Dame Eleanor
--2 hours writing/research on each of 3 days
--meet with TAs
--tackle teaching report for annual review
--add time estimates to list of class prep items
--prep for my class and for a guest class
--write one letter of recommendation; advise on another student's statement of
purpose
--process grad applications (6?) and read PhD exam essays
--3 hours on garage
--remember to look at calendar/lists every day
Julie
1. Finish finding examples for Big Article (2 days, but
working around meetings).
2. Start on review article (1 day).
3. Work on local history chapter (1 day).
4. Chase mentee.
5. House/life admin: tax return, other financial stuff if time, more summer
trip planning, four January birthdays, decluttering if time.
6. Self-care/fun: read, exercise, journal, maybe plant bulbs at weekend, text
friend.
Heu mihi
1. Read over essay and figure out next steps
2. Schedule a couple of meetings with student groups
3. Work out goals and plans for the coming semester/year
4. Sit some amount
5. Read a dissertation chapter (two, if I really get into it)
6. 35 pages of Italian
Susan
1. Finish and post the syllabus
2. Survive the start of classes chaos week
3. Letter of recommendation
4. Send notes to students I will interview for admission to my undergrad alma
mater
5. Send various emails
6. House: Deal with the Room of Doom
7. Select upholstery fabric for chair (still dithering)
8. Do fun things
9. Continue not looking at my iPad before bed, and reading instead.
10. Keep up with exercise, physical therapy
JaneB
SELF-CARE: all process goals, for three term time months:
a) intentional movement 20x3 or 15x4
b) some kind of making (art or craft) x2
c) something gently social x2
d) read at least one chapter (of fiction) every day this week
IMPROVING MY ENVIRONMENT: goals carried over!
a) 75% of weekly list of chores
b) make a sketch for the new idea for the shelving in living space
TEACHING AND ADMIN:
a) finish third year grading and mark bits with extensions
b) prepare class materials for second week of teaching - some fairly
substantial revision needed this year
RESEARCH
a) lead meeting, write up plan, for lead author paper
b) chase up emails sent out before Christmas for grant application
c) read and reply to email from Unexpected Collaborator
I don't think many of my ideas, if any, have been lightbulb moments. My PhD essentially started with finding aspects of economic and social history for eighteenth-century England interesting and wondering if the same processes and relationships occurred in a different context. Since then, a lot of my research comes out of frustration with assumptions that some areas are 'backward' or 'traditional' (with traditional = bad) and wanting to challenge or at least nuance those ideas. But for historians, no idea can get very far without finding stuff in the archives on which to test it.
ReplyDeleteHow I did:
1. Finish finding examples for Big Article (2 days, but working around meetings). - MOSTLY (some to check back on)
2. Start on review article (1 day). - YES (maybe not a full day, but some ideas)
3. Work on local history chapter (1 day). - ISH (not a full day, but progress)
4. Chase mentee. - YES
5. House/life admin: tax return, other financial stuff if time, more summer trip planning, four January birthdays, decluttering if time. - YES, NO, NO, SOME, NO
6. Self-care/fun: read, exercise, journal, maybe plant bulbs at weekend, text friend. - YES, SOME, SOME, NO (weather terrible, too tired), YES
Also: a lot of time on teaching planning and curriculum overhaul for next year, including yet more stupid plans from on high that we need to fight if possible.
Not the most productive week (see 'also') but some progress. Said no to a review, which felt liberating, and had a nice dinner with two good friends last night.
This week:
1. Work on Big Article: try to figure out structure and start organising material.
2. Add new section to local history article.
3. One day on review article.
4. House/life admin: son's birthday, brother's birthday, more financial stuff, decluttering, pay for school trip, tidy desk.
5. Self-care/fun: video call with friends, read, journal, Netflix, exercise, do something creative.
Poking assumptions can be very satisfying! Sounds like you actually made some progress on all task areas, and that's a solid week.
DeleteAnd good lick with resisting the higher-ups...
good LUCK :-D
DeleteShoutypants, are you joining us? Poking things, licking things, this all sounds felinical to me.
DeleteThis made me laugh! I could imagine Shoutypants jogging your elbow.
DeleteSo sorry that you have to deal with bright ideas from on high.
DeleteHe does like to pop up and help. And sometimes send comments in chats...
DeleteIdeas - I have far more questions than I'll ever have time to explore (and I don't have the skillset to explore all of them). What I actually work on at this point tends to depend on resources, collaborator availablity, opportunity (e.g. what gets funded)... I like poking assumptions (which in my field are often treated as Knoth Truths but actually are based on speculative, back of the envelope type papers written in the 60s and early 70s, based on a few datapoints from one site - and no-one really goes back to check. partly because it's almost impossible to get FUNDING to do that work, and funding is what matters for your career)
ReplyDeleteLAST WEEK:
Was a sad week - my sister's spaniel had to be put down at nearly 13 years old. And I had to deal with a lot of "genAI misuse" type student marking issues, which is getting infuriating - I am so angry with the "clever-clever" tech bros who must have known the impact this sort of toy would have on education but threw it out there anyway, with no protections or detection tools or anything. Sigh!
SELF-CARE: all process goals, for three term time months:
a) intentional movement 20x3 or 15x4 yes
b) some kind of making (art or craft) x2 one - crochet during a meeting
c) something gently social x2 one
d) read at least one chapter (of fiction) every day this week yes. Finished a book which should have been good but somehow wasn't and started a reread of Witch King which I am galloping through in advance of reading Queen Demon - Martha Wells at her sprawling-world-full-of-real-people (not human people, just real ones) fantasy best
IMPROVING MY ENVIRONMENT: goals carried over!
a) 75% of weekly list of chores nearly
b) make a sketch for the new idea for the shelving in living space no, but I thought about it...
TEACHING AND ADMIN:
a) finish third year grading and mark bits with extensions yes (and that's where the sloppy AI use was. GRR)
b) prepare class materials for second week of teaching - some fairly substantial revision needed this year yes, but didn't do as much revising as I hoped for. But sometimes one is just out of energy - and it was my non-work day before I was able to start this task
RESEARCH
a) lead meeting, write up plan, for lead author paper yes
b) chase up emails sent out before Christmas for grant application yes
c) read and reply to email from Unexpected Collaborator. yes
Also I did the proofs for the multi-author paper that was accepted just before Christmas, had a good work session on another project and set a batch of models running on my old laptop to get on with it in the background, and spent about 6 hours in meetings for the very large project (which is feeling chaotic and stressful right now. Humans are hard!)
COMING WEEK
Teaching starts for the second semester.
SELF-CARE: all process goals, for three term time months:
a) intentional movement 20x3 or 15x4
b) some kind of making (art or craft) x2
c) something gently social x2
d) read at least one chapter (of fiction) every day this week
IMPROVING MY ENVIRONMENT: goals carried over!
a) 75% of weekly list of chores
b) make a sketch for the new idea for the shelving in living space
c) decluttering person will hopefully come, and we will Tackle The Kitchen Cupboards...
TEACHING AND ADMIN:
a) deliver week 1 of teaching
b) prepare class materials for third week of teaching, with or without revision
RESEARCH
a) work on grant application
b) set second set of models running at end of week
I'm sorry about your sister's spaniel. It's always hard to lose a companion. And the AI stuff is infuriating. But you did a lot, and Martha Wells is always a good time.
DeleteSo sorry about your sister's dog (canine nibling?). And the AI stuff is awful. It just sucks the oxygen out of the room, and there's never time to talk about anything else.
DeleteI think AI exhaustion is universal, or almost universal. Except for the people who think it's fine. I'm sorry about your sister's spaniel. Always so hard.
DeleteSorry to hear about spaniel, always sad even if we know what is coming.
DeleteAI is the absolute WORST!!! Sorry you had to deal with that.
Love Martha Wells! You introduced me to her many years ago in this group and she's become one of those go-to authors for new books, and rereads because they are so well done.
Very much my canine nibling, my sister is very strong on "dog is family" thinking! And I'm not a dog lover, but he was a sweet boy with strong opinions. As a pup he used to raid the wastebins in hopes of finding food (especially crisps/chips/crackers) and of course people would rush to stop him eating wrappers, usually by rewarding him with a treat for handing over whatever he'd got hold of. For the rest of his life he would go into bins, delicately pick out a single wrapper (he especially liked crisp packets or chocolate bar wrappers) and carry it around until he got a treat. He was quite small for most of his life, for a spaniel, and before he got arthritic he used to manage spectacular vertical-take-off leaps onto furniture, kitchen counters etc. and then whine to be lifted down. When my sister and brother in law were away from the house for longer than normal, he would get both of their dressing gowns down from their hooks and make a combined nest out of them. He adored catnip, and could smell a park barbecue from a mile away (and as a young dog was annoyingly successful at evading his humans, getting to the barbecue, and looking so adorably polite that he would get a bit of sausage or burger). His actual final illness was short, and he had a lovely planned last day, with a favourite walk, getting to share human food, and the vet came out and did a house visit so he got to pass on his favourite blanket on the sofa surrounded by his humans.
DeleteHe was a Good Boy, and therefore he had a good end. I love the wrapper-for-treat exchange that he learned.
DeleteWell, I’m back. My research trip was glorious and exhausting and productive, and had lots of pastries. The science went really well and I got to see and opera, a ballet, and a fantastic orchestra concert. I love where I live and I’m always happy to contribute to the music and arts scene, but it is beyond fabulous to see some really high-end professional concerts and enjoy it on a level my former professional self can appreciate and marvel at! And it is inspiring and joyful too. So all round great trip.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course payback is going to a harsh re-entry call this whole week. My wonderful colleagues covered teaching so things are ok there, but our bit regional conference is in exactly 2 weeks, I have four students presenting, so lots of work to do there to make sure they are ready and comfortable. The week before the conference is the giant review committee, so making it through the next two weeks is the current plan and then everything is a bit easier for a while.
This week’s goals
Help students to get presentations ready
Do mountain of committee reviews
Don’t lose mind
Do something healthy
Give yourself little breaks in which you think about ballet, opera, and pastries! This would be a great week in which to gift yourself whatever pastries are available where you are (muffins, if that's what there is; or frozen chocolate croissants; whatever!). Oh, you did say "do something healthy," hmm. . . okay, pastries, but take the stairs.
DeleteWelcome back! Hope the experience of the last two weeks can sustain you through the next two weeks.
DeleteI know the feeling of "there's local stuff but it's really nice to see the great stuff"
DeleteThat sounds like a wonderful trip! I hope it refilled every cup ready for a productive semester ahead!
DeleteI have ideas the way rabbits have litters. Probably a lot of them come from juxtaposing things. In my area, an obvious one is something in Middle English compared to its source--but said source is not always obvious. Once a reading in my Latin group made me think that an ME text was drawing on it; the Latin was something I'd read in translation, but slowing down and thinking about every line made me see it in a new way. I have an idea for a book I'll probably never write, that is a spin-off of sorts from the book I've been working on for years, but with a different primary author and a somewhat different focus. I'm determined that one of my co-translators and I should write a book about the Huge Honking Translated Text, because we both keep giving conference papers about it and they ought to add up to something more than stray articles. Sometimes ideas come when I consider the manuscript context of a text and the juxtaposition is, so to speak, already done for me by some medieval scribe or early-modern reader.
ReplyDeleteHow I did:
--2 hours writing/research on each of 3 days: in spirit--not sure it was always 2 hours, but I did a chunk of work on each of 3 days.
--meet with TAs: NO (this needs to happen but they keep scheduling their own meetings with diss committee members!)
--tackle teaching report for annual review: YES
--add time estimates to list of class prep items: NO
--prep for my class and for a guest class: YES
--write one letter of recommendation; advise on another student's statement of purpose: YES, both
--process grad applications (6?) and read PhD exam essays: 2 (and more have come in), YES
--3 hours on garage: NO
--remember to look at calendar/lists every day: NO (probably 4/7, so not too bad)
ALSO: swam 2 miles, one other gym workout (the gym was closed Monday due to holiday, Friday due to extreme cold), made muffins again, went to an excellent concert, and have had a Greek group form, unexpectedly, thanks to a former student.
New goals:
--2 hours writing/research on each of 3 days
--abstract for August conference
--meet with TAs
--edit & submit teaching report for annual review
--add time estimates to list of class prep items
--prep for my classes (restrict to teaching days as much as possible!)
--process grad applications (10-ish, now)
--3 hours on garage
--remember to look at calendar/lists every day
--order book for Greek group
Ooh, Greek group sounds fun!
DeleteI love the way your ideas bounce around and multiply! I have visions of them gambolling in a meadow full of flowers and occasionally bumping into each other and spawning new ones...
DeleteYay for good concert and fun new Greek group!
That's certainly much nicer than my imagining my written work as deranged mutant octopi!
DeleteMy ideas just, well, they don't exactly multiply just like rabbits, it's like, the latest litter is a rabbit and three green eggs and a frog and a manticore and something which looks like a spiky rock but might be dangerously distracting when it grows up! I've loved the octopus analogy since I first heard it!
DeleteI meant to say in the original post that I'm also curious about how people get ideas for non-academic projects - all the creative stuff, D&D, I think Dame Eleanor mentioned a novel? Even the idea for shelving space!
ReplyDeleteNo idea about shelving/organization--in my life, furniture etc tends to drift until it finds a space that seems to work for the way we live, which is why 2-3 kitchen chairs are now pushed together to make a larger space for Basement Cat to sleep, so he's less likely to fall off a single chair, but the humans have to perch where we can. I have a vague notion that the living room might be more liveable if we did something about the lighting, but I'm not likely to get around to that, so it's lined with bookshelves, some chairs are pushed to the sides, and the center space is for cat play or human yoga/tai chi.
Delete(I realize there is a theme here. Yes, we do organize our lives around the cats, as is only right and proper. I'm sure Shoutypants approves.)
For the novel, it's another juxtaposition, I suppose: transplanting a 1920s novel set in Scotland to present-day California, and trying to think how the characters would line up. All the old Scottish retainers with their dialect would have to go, and I could not now get away with replacing them with Spanish-speaking "retainers," but could maybe do something with in-comers' expectations of Spanish-speakers as household/garden help, only to find that their families have been pillars of the community longer than the incomers' families have been in the US. The stout house-hunter from Glasgow would be from the Midwest; her good-catch son turns into a software developer or maybe video-game competer; and so on.
My idea for shelving space came from not being entirely sure about the older idea, and lots of sitting and staring at all the boxes whose contents need to go on the shelves.
DeleteFor D&D, well, there are formulae to some extent. The basic idea of D&D is some adventurers with different skills encounter a challenge/problem/hook/call to adventure and respond to it, and consequences unfold. I've learnt a lot about plotting by running D&D games - mostly by trying out standard recipes and realising they don't satisfy so letting them evolve, by following up on small things that happen that spark an idea or a joke or remind me of something, and by having a basic rule that the world goes on with or without the party - if they go left, things down the righthand fork don't just go into suspended animation, they continue to evolve. The antagonists, or any other occupants of the world, have their own agendas and get on with it. And it's a social story telling game - I present a thing, the players react, their reactions and questions prompt my imagination of next steps...
It does tend to fall into classic fantasy tropes like Quest For Magic Object (currently in the long running game with my nibling our protagonists are running around in the Feywild (D&D for Underhill) trying to follow a map which is mostly blank (new sections only appear on the page when they actually find a location on the bits they can see and fix a problem) AND find the Court of Autumn so that one character can pay off a debt they rather stupidly entered into (that took me by surprise, but they accepted a ridiculous deal and now they have to deliver, so...). So far they've been accused of stealing acorns by armoured squirrels with tiny bows that shoot poisoned thorn darts, nearly got their companion animal stolen by flying snakes whilst trying to release an evil flame spirit from a cage (no, I don't know why) and walked back and forwards through the same section of woods about twelve times due to constantly failing their direction-finding dice rolls, DESPITE one of them being able to fly up through the tree canopy and see the VERY VISIBLE markers (mountains to the west, bone tower to the North, marsh to the south, river crosses the area diagonally...) so the rolls are very easy.
I spent a few hours over winter break making a map of this area of the feywild, making a list of the places they have to get to and tasks to do to open up a new map section, sketched the map (and scanned it in sections so they can get the new section that way), and making up some opportunities to find out where the fey court is (and deciding that the court would be wherever the third person who gave them information said it was - so I don't know where it is either. It moves, it's a Fey Court so clearly it's very SCA-Ren-Faire-medieval in character).
DeleteThe novels I'm working on - well, plotting I'm BAD at, that's the real problem - I'm better at description and places and following things to their logical conclusions in my slightly warped brain and the driver tends to be characters and their challenges and their growth. I like my people, they're all flawed and even the ones that are set up to be a simple thing become complicated and they are interesting, even the ones who do stupid things, selfish things, wicked things. They all very quickly take on their own life and logic when I start writing about them.
DeleteWhere the original ideas come from - from the rag-bag of my brain. My memory has never been very logical or useful, it grabs anything it likes (and anything that has a strong feeling attached to it) and throws them all into a giant heap, then pulls scraps out and throws them around on a pretty random schedule. The brain squirrels play in the rag-bag and find new treasures (and go off their previous loves) at a rate of knots, and it just all becomes stories.
I used to tell my little sister stories on long car journeys and on family walks when she got bored, there was a long-running series about a Guinea Pig who ran a sweet shop, imaginatively called The Guinea Pig Sweet Shop, which mostly consisted of naughty mice children trying to steal tastes of things and developing elaborate themed recipes for sweets. I told myself stories when my brain wouldn't shut up for sleep. My fantasy university series is inevitable given my job! I also get a lot of ideas which clearly come from other sources, especially books I've read - there ARE only a few kinds of stories, and good writing hangs around, that's what it DOES. One story line in the fantasy university series is partly influenced by an old Margaret Ball novel (which wasn't that good, really, but bits of it were sticky), I keep seeing touches of Mercedes Lackey (whose books I no longer much like), Martha Wells seems to have the same favourite archetype and trope as I do which is part of why I love her books so much (the Snarky Outsider With Hidden Pain and Found Family Who Helps Even When You Try And Do It Alone Or Want Them To Get Lost) so those elements turn up a lot. But it all cooks up into my own version of things, I hope. And ONE day I'll manage to bring a plot to a CONCLUSION and have a full draft of one - or even several - of the wretched things....
Ideas for poems are different, they're more like pebbles from the edge of the ocean which turn up randomly in your coat pocket and you have no idea how it got there but it feels right in your hand and is an unexpected spark of pleasure in a normal day.
The standard US fantasy author's answer to where do ideas come from is, I belive, Schenectady?
Yes, I think if that wasn't Le Guin, it was her quoting someone else! I also have no notion of How To Plot, which is why I plan to steal other people's plots and move them into new settings. But basically I want to write books that are barely not-romance, sort of village-life set pieces loosely strung together with a boy-meets-girl or girl-gets-job sort of a wave at a plot.
DeleteOh, it's attributed to Harlan Ellison! But I'm sure Le Guin mentions it in one of her essays about writing.
DeleteResearch ideas come from all sorts of places. I have a suite of things I’m interested in working on, and enjoy, and have the skills to do, and all of my stuff starts with field work. The specific applications or places matter less, I just need to find a place with unsolved problems in my area, that fulfil a few important criteria: can I find it and get to it, does it have the right kind of materials, does it have a good problem, is anyone else interested (colleagues, students), and, can I pay for it (field and analytical aspects, all of it is expensive). When I first started as a prof I needed to find something to work on that was driving distance from my university, and cheap, because I had no funding, so I got into doing work in a particular geographic area. Which is a great place to work, and has turned into a much larger research program with a very satisfying geographic and time range. I started collaborating with my current colleagues because I could do something that they needed done and had no experience or capacity to do. Sometimes there is a lot of previous work but it needs a modern look with different tools, sometimes it is completely new. Some of it can count as traditional “hypothesis testing” but a lot of work in this field starts out as hmmm, I wonder what is over there?” or “hmmm, this is weird….” and evolves into a slightly more sophisticated approach over time…
ReplyDeleteVery much relate to the needing cheap ideas! I am SO LUCKY that I was able to get into simulation/data analysis work which lets me have a skill set I can offer to collaborators and continue to do research now when I'm not able to do fieldwork or travel (sigh mobility and burn out and skills regression issues). I just want to know how things work - but if someone says confidentially THIS is how it works I immediately want to poke into the layers of that. I never stopped asking "why?"
DeleteHow I get ideas? Well, I have some big questions I've been interested in for my entire career, and I think I just poke at them in different ways. The big question for the Rest of My Life project was the big question for my dissertation, but of course approached very differently 45 years later! Famous Author is the exception, because that's a result of watching a show on TV and getting annoyed. 20 years later, there's a book.
ReplyDeleteHow I did:
1. Finish and post the syllabus YES
2. Survive the start of classes chaos week Yes
3. Letter of recommendation NO
4. Send notes to students I will interview for admission to my undergrad alma mater YES, INTERVIEWED 3 of 4
5. Send various emails SOME
6. House: Deal with the Room of Doom HUGE PROGRESS
7. Select upholstery fabric for chair (still dithering) I THINK I KNOW/ WAITING FOR SAMPLE
8. Do fun things I DON"T THINK SO
9. Continue not looking at my iPad before bed, and reading instead. NO
10. Keep up with exercise, physical therapy MOSTLY
AND ALSO: did the proofs of the index for Famous Author (sent off less than a half hour ago), did three sessions of microfilm scanning, did UK taxes
Actually, not a bad week. The proofs were a bear: I checked every single entry in the index, and discovered many errors, and that I don't know the alphabet. I got two trash bags, a box of books, and two bags of recycling out of the Room of Doom, and what's left is manageable, I just need TIME. The current batch of microfilm has to be returned to Interlibrary Loan next week, so there's that. It's just boring and an awkward chair/ position.
Later this week I have a guest coming to speak, and then I'm heading down to my Favorite Library for a workshop on Friday and Saturday. So limited goals:
1. Finish microfilm
2. Organize things with guest
3. Do reading for workshop (precirculated papers are great, until they are not!)
4. Get a little bit ahead on teaching.
5. Work on organizing conference
6. Hang out with friends
7. Keep up with exercise/ PT
8. Limit social media for mental health
Life will throw any number of curve balls my way, but I think that's the basic list.
Special congratulations on the progress with the Room of Doom, and SUPER well done on the proofs! Yay! Champagne, balloons, cheers!
DeleteYay proofs!!! A huge job that will stay done... Congratulations, we're all sending cheers and celebrations!
DeleteHope the guest is fun, and the visit to the library is inspiring and enjoyable.
Oof, where *do* ideas come from? I spent part of this morning's yoga class reflecting on how dry my imagination seems these days. I keep thinking about how I used to be creative, but now...? Consumed by the daily and the trivial, it seems. I don't think that I should beat myself about it this semester, but it bothers me.
ReplyDeleteI do think that rest and time for the mind to wander are important. This often happens to me during walks. I haven't been taking many walks lately (the weather is partly to blame--and now we've got 20+" of snow out my front door!). So maybe I'll focus on resting, when I can, and trust that some spark will return when things are quieter!
Last week:
1. Read over essay and figure out next steps - YES, and now I'm going to ignore it for a while
2. Schedule a couple of meetings with student groups - YES; now I need to plan agendas for these meetings
3. Work out goals and plans for the coming semester/year - NO
4. Sit some amount - NO
5. Read a dissertation chapter (two, if I really get into it) - YES, finished the dissertation this morning!
6. 35 pages of Italian - YES
Next/this week: Classes start on Thursday, so there's that.
1. Read student's exam prep documents and give feedback
2. Get as much as possible done on the program for the big conference we're hosting in March
3. Read ahead for class
4. Read a few essays and decide whether to assign them or not
5. Make one more little box for a flash drive
6. Admin stuff: Finish reviewing grad students' syllabi, review grad applicants' files for Friday interviews, prep for undergrad meetings, any number of other little things as they arise
I think admin tasks clutter up our brains in terrible ways. (It's why I struggle especially with "good" novels: I need space to enter the imaginative world of the novel.) One of the things I want to recover in retirement is the person who read fiction ALL the time. (I still read all the time, but it's student writing, or articles, or scholarly books.)
DeleteYou seem, more than many people, well-equipped to deal with 20 inches of snow, but I'm still sorry you have had it all dumped on you. I expect ignoring the essay for awhile will improve it (make it beg for attention!). Maybe it will help to know that I have several pages in my Moleskine that are blank except for the headings--"goals and hopes for 2026" and "January 2026 goals." Actually I've added a few to the January page in the last couple of days . . . the month isn't over yet!
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