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Writing/Editing:
- Morning Pages for a minimum of 250 words or half hour, whichever comes first, 6 days per week. – 977 words/3 days (well, it’s half the goal, right?)
- Fiction, at least an hour each week. It can be brainstorming, plotting, writing, or editing. – Nope.
- Post three times a week here on the blog. – Yep, there was Zumanity, CoyoteCon, ROW80, oh my! on Sunday, Romance Predictability on Tuesday, and meet the Guardian of Air on Thursday.
Reading:
- A minimum of 10 books to stay on track for 100 books this year. – Nope. Though I do have a beta read to get back…hopefully, today.
- Update Goodreads at least every other week. – Nope.
Support/Social Media:
- Visit and comment on at least 12 blogs each week. – 12 this week.
- One non-blog related post per week on Facebook and Twitter. – Nope.
- One share, re-tweet, whatnot per week on Facebook and Twitter. – Facebook, yes. Twitter, no.
Non-Writery Stuff:
- Exercise three times per week. – Nope.
- Family day, no working and time with family, one day per week. – Yep.
- Allow myself an hour each week for me time. – Kinda.
I really must find a way of being more consistent. It definitely feels like the one step forward, three steps back dance.
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Raelyn Barclay 
A mixed week for you, Raelyn, but some real progress in there. I really struggle getting my own to-do list checked off in the summer. Best wishes for more progress this week! And some of that much-needed “me time.” 🙂
Despite the tone of this post, it wasn’t all that bad of a week just not as much forward progress on goals as hoped. I should have a note in here that I’m in the middle of back to school prep times four! 😆
Thanks for the support Julie!
Some weeks are great. Some weeks…not so much. Others? Well, probably wouldn’t want to talk about those anyway lol!! But it is the working writer/author life. Finding that balance is a daily tight rope walk where more days, you complete something wonderful. Then there are the day’s you’re thankful for the net below 🙂
Good luck with each day. May you progress to do you best. That is all you can ask of yourself.
It is an up and down wave, isn’t it?
I just downloaded a tarot app and my card for the day is Temperance = balance, synthesis, integration, adjustment, healing, and moderation. Sounds like a plan of action for the upcoming week 🙂
Thanks for the support Angela!
Look at it this way, you got to do the most important thing on your list–spend time with your family.
Getting four boys ready for the school year is a monumental job. I salute you! 🙂
True. And the countdown to the first day of school is officially underway. If school supplies wasn’t enough there is the complete wardrobe thing…the weeds! 😆
Thanks for the support Maria!
Sometimes it really does feel like one step forward, two steps back. But hey, you still got that one step forward! And then some, it sounds like. You have a lot of conflicting priorities – but it’s a new week, and a new chance to make some goals. Good luck!
I’m not sure conflicting is the right word but definitely different areas of my life are demanding different things, LOL.
Thanks for swinging by Jennette!
I used to struggle when other parts of life made demands that made writing tricky, too. No back to school for my young weeds who have never been, but tis the busy homeschool social season, multiple birthdays, and the most intensely demanding month for homeschool paperwork, too.
I’ve learned, over the past year or so, to look ahead and calibrate my goals to the tempo of life, so that I don’t feel pulled in too many directions to effectively move in any.
I love and have adopted/adapted the way Gene Lempp writes his goals with adaptations to suit life. To expect yourself to meet the same goals during this transitional time is unfair to you. At least, it is if you can’t clone yourself and you don’t have a time machine! =)
It looks like you made good progress. You moved some things ahead, and, when the dust settles, you can pick up steam again!
May you enjoy the last days of family togetherness, and find some time for deep breaths.
Adapting to life’s rhythms… what a concept, LOL. Actually, that is one of the reasons I took the 3rd round off last year. Summer is always crazy with comings and goings and then school prep. But doing that completely destroyed the momentum I had going, and I am still struggling to get it back. This year’s challenge has been fitting everything in around the new job, I haven’t worked this full a full-time job since before the wee beasties were born!
Thanks for the support Shan!
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