Aggie Shoots. Aggie Scraps.

While for some it would be job-related like mastering a project management software or something personal like learning how to drive or cook, scrapbooking forums are abuzz this month with threads on scrapbooking goals for the year.You can find awesome inspiring projects here. I also made a post on my main scrapbooking resolution this year.

I am actually very interested in this (surprise surprise!):

And finally, Listography: Your Life in Lists. This is the first in a series of spin-off guided journals (you’ll also find titles geared toward music, love, the calendar, etc.). It’s not necessarily ground-breaking material—I don’t know about you, but I’ve been making lists since I first started writing—but the guided, fill-in format is kind of fun, the topics aren’t necessarily ones I would have thought up on my own, and the illustrations are quirky and entertaining. Books like this make excellent resources for scrapbookers, because the sole purpose is to help you get your story down on paper. A worthy goal, I think we can all agree. A fun bonus: the creators of this series also run a free website where you can digitize, customize, and categorize your lists (publicly or privately). A list of 52 projects, anyone?

January is the time of the year when most people set goals for themselves and aim too high. Across forums, there is a thread about scrapping resolutions. And I thought I can do one this year because I was able to accomplish mine last year (get caught up in all printing) – I would like to thank Artscow for that. Now if my husband can promise to lessen his habit to buy cigars twice a day, I can promise to scrap less.

Yep, you heard me. My goal is to scrap less this year. Accomplish more things. Live life more.

I only plan to make sure I carry out my Project 365 for 2010. I am so inspired by Janet Phillips’ album (hers is on Facebook) and Shannon Bieger’s album (hers is on Flickr). One picture provides a snippet of their lives and speak so much more than 10 pages of scrapped pages.

Not that I am giving up entirely on scrapbooking – no. NEVER! But I have some priorities that need to take centerstage this year that in order for me to keep scrapbooking, it needs to be modified to fit into my life.