I’m not the type to resolve to quit things I’ll never quit or change habits I’ll never change, but my freelance writing career is one spot where I do make the effort to come up with some attainable goals. I try to resolve to do things for the better (for my writing business) each year, and I’ve more than fulfilled my goals in previous years. So, onto 2008…

My resolutions this year are pretty simple, but they’ll take some hard work to achieve.

1) Stop working by midnight each night.
2) Take at least 1/2 a day off each weekend.

Many of you may think I’m joking, but seriously, this is how much I work. I can’t say I’m too bummed about my working life as it is now, but as a precaution for major burnout and/or a pending health collapse, I’m trying to trim my schedule down.

Some of what I’m in the process of doing to attain these goals:

1) Drop a few clients.

2) Drop a few personal projects.

3) Drop a few pro bono (volunteer) projects. (I haven’t wanted to do this, but I added up the hours I spend on volunteer work — all for reputable charities or truly needy people — and have found that I spend more than 30 hours per week on charitable work, so it’s time to cut the cord a bit.)

4) Visit fewer blogs. (This is an area where I can stand to cut back at least an hour per day.)

5) Save my “fun stuff” (like blog surfing and pleasure reading) till last in the day, and skip it entirely if I haven’t gotten a certain amount of work done by a certain time each day.

What are your new year’s resolutions? If you’ve already posted them on your blog, feel free to post a link here in the comments.