www.inkthinkerblog.com — I read this great post over at The Renegade Writer Blog about creating a daily schedule to maximize your time. Author Jennifer has kids and a work-at-home husband, so she’s got to juggle her family commitments and her work commitments while supporting her husband’s as well. It sounds like the two of them have worked out a great plan, and I’m feeling inspired to come up with a schedule of my own in light of my recent organization kick.
I also really enjoy Ayana Glaze’s September article “Have you created your annual success plan?” I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: What better way to track your progress than to figure out where you’re going in the first place? I’m a big fan of regular goal setting, but I know how easy it is to let stuff like that fall by the wayside when you’re focused on getting through the current project while lining up the next one.
Try to look at the big picture on a weekly or monthly basis. Where do you want to be? Where are you right now? What can you do to get closer to your desired destination? ‘Tis the season to look back on the successes and failures of the year and think about what you can do to increase the former and decrease the latter in 2007.
Post some of your goals in the comments section!
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I have a goal to finally finish the first draft of my novel, to improve the quality of my blog posts, and to resist the temptation to upload blog posts to my site before they are ready for “prime time”.
Those are excellent general goals. If I may make a suggestion, I’d encourage you to itemize them a little. For example, by what date will you finish your first draft, and what schedule will you follow to make sure it happens? In what way will you improve your posts’ quality, and how will you determine whether that has happened? How do you define “ready for prime time”? You don’t need to respond to those questions here (unless, of course, you want to), but something to think about as you look forward to next year. Keep up the good goal setting!