Here
we are, one week into the new year already. I can’t say that 2018 has shown a
huge improvement over 2017, but we are going to power through.
The
week turned out pretty good for me, at least as far as goals go. Goals fully
achieved for the week are highlighted in green, those attempted are highlighted
in yellow and those not even looked at are in red letters.
A. WRITING
1.
Edit six chapters of “The Truth Beyond the River”. I really haven’t been doing much of an edit,
just reading through it and fixing the obvious errors. I’m about 70% done with that. Next read-through
I will get serious about it, but I think I needed this quick one to get back
into it.
2. Write three posts to the
“Dino Chronicles”. Done.
B. REACHING
1.
Read four other blogs and comment on two of them. Read five and commented on one (so I’m counting that).
2. Promote “Where the Sky Meets the Sand”.
a. Finish emailing my contact
list asking for reviews. Done.
b.
Share the book on my social media. I blogged about it, so
that counts.
C. READING
1. Read the daily assignment
in “Today’s Light” Study Bible. Up to date.
2. Daily read “Bury My Heart
At Wounded Knee”. Pretty much. It is a long book, though, and not
very cheery. I’m reading it to help with the perspective of one of the main
characters in “The Truth Beyond the River”.
D. REMAINING
1. Physical
a. Exercise four mornings a
week. Exercised five mornings.
b.
Work out three evenings a week. Worked out four evenings.
c. Cut back on sweets. Not really. Don’t know how to measure this goal, but the
answer is still “no”.
2. Home fires
a.
Scan a dozen old pictures. I
spent most of the day Friday trying to get my scanner to work, without success.
I bit the bullet and tried just taking pictures of my pictures. It hasn’t been
too bad. Those old photos don’t look the best anyway, so with a little editing
the photographed ones are as good as the scanned ones. I can only do it on a
sunny day, though – natural light, so I did a bunch (42!) yesterday.
b. Work on the new scrub top.
Cut it out Friday and sewed most of it yesterday. I’ll finish it
today. (I almost only gave myself a yellow highlight, but my goal was clearly
to “work on it”, not to finish it.)
a. Start writing the
Procedure Manual. Got the basics started and outlined.
b. Write a tentative
itinerary for Medical Outreach in the Fall. Nope.
Looks
like it was kind of an all or nothing week. But that’s okay; I’m good with
that.
Next
week, I don’t have too much extra going on – church Monday night and an
appointment for a facial on Friday (I know, I don’t get it either, but I’ll
post the pictures here next Sunday). Oh, and I work Saturday morning. But I
should still have time to get lots done.
A. WRITING
1. Finish the initial edit/read-through
of “The Truth Beyond the River”.
2. I’ve had an idea for another book for a while
(well, actually like four of them, but this one is speaking to me), so I might
start working on -that – outlining the characters and such.
3. Write three posts to
the “Dino Chronicles”.
B. REACHING
1. Read four other blogs and comment
on two of them.
2.
Start researching literary agents to contact.
3. Promote “Where the Sky Meets the Sand”. This
one gets so depressing. I keep checking the book’s ratings on Amazon as well as
the number of reviews, and every time I do, I just say to myself, “I suck!”. I
know that probably 90% of authors say the same thing, but it just gets so old.
I know I should stop checking Amazon all the time, but I just keep hoping to
see some jump in reviews or sales. I keep trying to come up with new and
original ways to promote it (again, as I am sure all authors are doing), but
nothing seems to make a difference.
a. Maybe do some research (again) on places I can
do book-signings.
b. Share the book on my
social media (again).
C. READING
1. Read the daily
assignment in “Today’s Light” Study Bible.
2. Daily read “Bury My
Heart At Wounded Knee”.
3. I am also going to try to get back at the
Tuesday morning Bible study. I quit going about a year ago, when my life
started to slide into the abyss. One of my resolutions for the new year is to
start going again. They are reading the book “Jesus Calling”, so I downloaded
it onto my Kindle and will start reading that too.
D. REMAINING
1. Physical
a. Exercise four mornings
a week.
b.
Work out three evenings a week.
c. Cut back on sweets and
increase water intake.
2. Home fires
a. Sort through those boxes of pictures so that
when I do scan them, I can do it quickly and efficiently. If there is a day
where the sun is streaming in my windows when I am not at work, I’ll try to
photograph some more of them.
b. Finish the new scrub
top.
a. Work on the Procedure
Manual.
b. Write a tentative
itinerary for Medical Outreach in the Fall.
c. Post four items for sale on Etsy. I’m going
down to my daughter’s today and we plan on working on it.
That’s
about all for this week. The weather is finally supposed to start warming up
here, so I’m pretty excited about that. Maybe I’ll be able to get out and take
some pictures of my yard or my dog.
Have
a good week and best wishes to all.
Showing off my horsemanship skills at Wall Drug in 1971. |
They finally let me on an actual horse in 1988. |
Awesome, Chris! Lots of green highlights there, so that's good. You can work on the sweets next week ;) Have a great week and thanks for stopping by my blog earlier :)
ReplyDeleteThat's why we are a community of writers - always supporting each other.
DeleteYou may be feeling as if you're not making much progress, Chris, but I see this lovely field of green here and it's looking so good!
ReplyDeleteA thought on your "cutting back on sweets" goal... maybe what you need to do first, to fully understand what this means for you, is to make a clear record of how many sweets you actually do eat in a week or two, so you have a sense of where you need to cut and what situations trigger a munching session....
Just a thought.
I pretty much know what triggers the munchies - walking through the house, writing, getting ready for work, at work, breathing. Pretty much everything. I don't want to know how many sweets I snitch in a day. I'm hoping that once I power my way through the Christmas leftovers, that I can get a handle on it and pace myself better. Thanks for thinking of me. :)
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