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Keeping Your Resolutions |
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Making
Your Scrapbook Resolutions Really Happen 
Having just celebrated the turning of another page, at least on our calendars,
it is a natural time to make some promises to ourselves about the direction we
would like to take in the coming year. However, no matter how well intended
these goals may be, they have a tendency to fall by the wayside all to often as
the year progresses. Hence, people interviewed on the street these days will
tell you, "I don't make resolutions because I have always broken
them." One way to keep from sliding into this pattern of failure is to set
attainable goals, which are followed with specific objectives. As one applies
this method to scrapbook resolutions, the seemingly lofty becomes attainable.
What are your plans for your scrapbooking this year? Do you have specific goals
in mind? Have you laid out several objectives which will help you work toward
those goals? This article is a "How-To" for those of you who wish to
keep your 2002 scrapbooking resolutions. Let's examine four different types of
resolutions:
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"My New Years resolution is to complete 100 pages...."
Danielle
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"I
resolve to complete (fill in any number here) scrapbook pages this year!"
Whether you have just joined a club whose goal is for each participant to
complete 500 pages this year, or you simply want to get 10 pages done, setting
some goals and objectives is essential to being able to keep this resolution. To
begin, try dividing the number of pages by the number of weeks in year (you can
use a rough estimate here). For example, if your goal is 500 pages this year
(yes, a seemingly unreachable goal), then you must realize that you are
resolving to complete about 10 pages each and every week. So your next step
would be to come up with specific objectives that will help you reach the goal
of ten pages a week. Write this goal at the top of a clean sheet of paper and
jot down beneath it things you can do to help yourself meet this goal. Some
ideas include:
Go to a weekly cropping party. Most scrapbook stores offer weekly
times for scrapbookers to gather to work on albums. These events can be very
productive because any supplies you may need (i.e. paper and stickers) are
readily available for purchase.
Gather regularly with friends who share your scrapbook goals. Meet
together with friends to crop at times when a formal crop may not be the best
option or is not available. Be creative with the times, i.e. nap times, while
laundry is washing, while waiting for the kids to get home from school on the
bus.
Set up page kits ahead of time. Begin organizing your photos, paper,
stickers, die-cuts, etc. based on page layouts. Store these with your scrapbook
pages and essential supplies in an easy-to-pull-out anytime location. This way
when you have a few extra minutes, you can put together a page quickly.
Evaluate whether your scrapbook style and your current goals will work
together. If you absolutely adore pages that include a lot of paper piecing,
punch art, or pen embellishing, and take hours to complete each layout, then you
can see that even 10 pages a week would simply be a full time job! If you don't
want to change your style, then this may be the time to adjust your goals.
What if your goal is more general in nature? How about, "I resolve to
get 'caught up' on my scrapbooking?"
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