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This week we're sharing our goals for the new year and our process for creating tactile vision boards.

We're getting a little woo-woo as we share our experiences with manifesting and debating a literary hot take.

So should we go back and forth on

26 goals or do you want to go like all M.A. LC. What do you think? Yeah, let's go back and forth.

These are just like personal goals and we're just doing five. Yeah. I'm just putting that out there in case

anyone's like, oh, should I make goals around my family? Should I make goals around my whatever? Like, yes, go for it. We're just sharing one little part of our goals here, basically. Yeah. I mean, to inspire you and like have something to talk about next year when we inevitably succeed or fail on these. Right. Like, we have goals that aren't on on this list. Like I was like, I want to finish my

laser hair removal, but I didn't put it on here because it's not exciting to talk about or hear about it. I have goals like that too where I was like, this is on the list, but they don't want to hear about this. Yeah. Exactly. Cool, cool, cool. Okay. Well, my first one is I'm going to query the wedding photographer. So this one's like coming up because I'll be doing this in January, hopefully, hopefully mid-January. So I've polished her. She's done. I've written my letter. I had that proofed. I'm ready to go. I've made my list of agents. I'm pretty much ready to hit the ground running on this goal. I have no idea how it's

going to go, but I am optimistic and hopeful, and I am telling the universe that what I want for

my birthday, which is January 21st, is an agent. So we'll see how it goes. Yeah. No, I am so excited for you,

and I'm manifesting that you're going to have an agent and be selling your book in 2026.

Yeah, I actually don't care if I get it like buy my birthday.

I'm just saying like, that's the, you know, what I want kind of thing to the universe.

Anyway, you get it.

Because agents do take a while to read, by the way, and that's

very normal and fine. So, anyway. Unless they don't like it. Unless they don't like it, then they're

real quick. Yeah. This sucks. See later. Best of luck to you. Okay. My first goal is the same.

Exactly. I am going to query my novel The Surrealist and I am hoping to get a fiction agent and I am hoping to sell the book to a publisher in 2026. That would be best case scenario.

Hell yeah. That's all I have to say. Two say two thumbs up yeah it'd be cool if it happens

like around the same time it's kind of like being pregnant at the same time wouldn't it be cool yeah

yeah and we never had that experience so i would love it in my perfect world i would love it if

it happened for you first because i feel like you started writing first and you've been on this journey for longer and I think that would be better. But also, if it happens for both of us this year, we can really celebrate. We should just really, really, really celebrate. Really, really, really celebrate. It's going to happen for both of us. Yes, sure. But I'm going to get a bigger book deal. I'm just kidding. That's fine. That's fine. I keep trying to fish you off and you're just like, yeah, okay. I accept that thing, you said. I'm like, it's not fun if you just. Sometimes my sense of humor is turned down real low. Okay. All right. That's fine. Okay. What's your goal number two?

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