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You
know how some people collect beer steins, or Green Bay Packer memorabilia (that
be my husband) or Snoopys (ok, that would be me). Well, I also collect,
apparently, travel brochures. You know, those rack cards and city magazines and
fliers they have in the racks in the lobbies of hotels and some restaurants?
Well, I scoop those up like a crow on roadkill.
A
week ago, last Friday, I cleaned out a file drawer of just those things from my
own state. I have two more file drawers full from the other 49 states! Someday
I’ll get to those. In the meantime, this past Friday, I cleaned out the next
drawer in that particular file cabinet, and it contained a plethora of my
writing from twenty to thirty years ago. Found only a few gems. I might share
them another time. But on to my goals.
Last
Sunday, I posted my goals for the rest of the year, so I’m not going to repost
them here now, maybe just the first of each month. My plan was to focus on weekly
goals, which means, unfortunately, I have to add another color. Oh, man, this
is getting so complex. I did not want to add another color! I did not want this
to get complicated.
Ok,
so this is what I’m gonna try. Below are my goals from last week. If it is a
goal which I accomplished, and it is done for the Round, I’ll highlight it in blue and then drop it off the
list next time I post. If it is a goal which was accomplished this week, but I
will do it all over again next week, I’ll highlight it in green and keep it on the list.
The usual yellow
highlight is goal at least worked on and red lettering is
not even attempted, a complete fail. If there is no color at all, it’s a goal I
just couldn’t work on for whatever lame reason. Is that too convoluted to
follow? I’ll try it this week and see how it works for me.
Except,
oh dear, I thought of something else. If I am accomplishing goals which I drop
of the list, I should be adding new ones, shouldn’t I? If that happens, guess
what, no color, just a note that it’s an added goal. Yikes, don’t know if I can
do this!
Goals
for the week:
A. WRITING
2. Write a chapter on my new novel "New Old Spies". NEW GOAL. I have to start working on this!
B. REACHING
1. Promote myself or a piece of my writing
(whether it be promoting one of my books, submitting a piece somewhere, saying
something brilliant about my writing on my social media, etc.). Hmm? Can’t think of anything. Ok, so I remembered
something, and even though it was actually more than a week ago, I haven’t
counted it on this blog yet, so I’m counting it now. A memory from a year ago bounced
up on Facebook, where I posted pictures of cases of my novel arriving at my house.
So, I shared that and someone
saw it and asked to buy my novel. A little thing, but hey. And my
sister, bless her heart, sold a copy of my memoir to some guy she knows. Baby
steps and small victories, right?
2. Contact three businesses about doing book
signings or speaking engagements. I emailed just one library
but am still researching other places and adding to my list of prospects.
C. READING
1. Read the daily assignment in “Today’s Light”
Study Bible. Done.
2. Read the daily devotion in “Jesus Calling”. Done.
3. Read five other people’s blog posts and comment
on two of them. Read six and commented on four. And by the way, I love and support all the
other ROW80 bloggers, but I’ve been trying to read and comment on blogs outside
of the group too.
4. Finish reading “The Reunion” by Dan Walsh. NEW
GOAL.
D. REMAINING
1. Physical
a. Increase my water intake, averaging 60 ounces
per day. Not
really very much this week.
b. Exercise four mornings
a week and three evenings. Done, I’m pretty sure.
2. Home fires
a.
Wash the windows in my office. Are you
kidding? With the highs in the low 50s and rain almost every day? I might have
to forget about this one until spring, due to no fault of my own, except of
course, that I should have done it in August.
b. Clean the closet in my office. Yup, done! Along with those file cabinet drawers.
c. Clean my three drawers of the four drawer file cabinet in my office. NEW GOAL.
d. Scan 20 old pictures. NEW GOAL.
a. Promote TV on all of our social media. I wrote a very lengthy blog post about our
upcoming project and posted it
all over and asked those reading it to share it. It has had 483 views at
last count. I don’t know what more I can do than that.
b. Talk to our board about contacting American
Family Insurance offices in the area. Our nonprofit’s president and our
treasurer both contacted people about that this week. Let’s me off the
hook, I guess!
Well,
that all looks pretty good for week 1 of the fourth Round. How about you? Have
you started the Round out with a bang or a whimper?
