MONDAY MOTIVATION

 Good morning, friends!

Bob leaves tomorrow so today is pretty much a fluff day for me. We'll eat leftovers and play cards. He usually has most of his packing done within his first week home. I do his laundry then he folds and puts everything right back in the suitcase... easy peasy.

With Bob leaving tomorrow, I go in to full work mode aka my 10-12 hour days. I'll spend the day hours in the shop creating for my etsy shop then the evenings, finishing up An Ozarks Homecoming. I am so ready to share this story with you... and move on to Book 3 - An Ozarks Reunion. 

This week also means backtracking to a couple of things I've let slide. I'll share those in a moment.

The first week Bob is gone is always busy for me. I know from experience I try to accomplish way too much this first week and wear myself out. I feel like I have to dive into the deep end or I'll stay in the shallow end and accomplish nothing. So here's the week:

* Blog posts across the board at least through July 4

* Finish 3 unfinished Creative projects & load Etsy shop

* Step 1 in getting rights back to Somewhere Down the Line. Technically, the book is out of contract so we shall see. I want to see this one in print.  

* FINALLY launch author tube - Just an intro video as I talk about getting ready for the 3rd quarter of 2021  - hard to believe half the year is GONE!

* FIVE writing sprints every day this week.  

About the writing sprints... I know at least three of those will be after I quit creative work for the day but I want to try doing at least two during the day. I can average between 400-600 words in a 20 min. sprint so that should really let me rack up the word count towards finishing the first draft of Book 2

That's it for this week... plenty to keep me out of trouble, Butt in Chair, Hands on Keyboard (BIC HOK)

All my best

~Angela

MONDAY MOTIVATION

 

Happy Memorial Day, everyone!

I'm having a quiet, yet busy weekend at home. Bob will be home on Friday and there's so much I need to get caught up on now that I can move freely again. The rib has mostly healed. I can tell when I've stressed the muscle. I've used the massager on my bed more in the past month than in the four years we've owned the bed. 

With Bob due home, that means I really need to bust and get stuff done. I'm also getting back to writing in the evenings again as well as eyeing daytime sprints (though my word count isn't as high during the day). A friend of mine teaches nursing and will be out of school the end of this week. She has plans for several manuscripts and wants a sprinting buddy so I told her I'd be happy to help. Both of us might accomplish something. Like me, she prefers shorter sprints so I'm really looking forward to teaming up with her. 

This week is all about blog posts as well as the creative projects I need to finish for youtube. I'm hoping to launch my authortube next week... with my first video discussing my Kanban board and goal setting for the end of the 3rd quarter on June 5. For now, I'll try to post something there on Saturdays. One day a week until I get something worth posting will be plenty. 

So here's my week:

# Blog posts for the entire month of June. - I try to get these done ahead of time when I know Bob is going to be home because I don't do much of anything during those twenty-one days. Except for Monday Motivation, I am able to schedule the rest of the posts.

# Authortube video launch - Talking about the Kanban board and using my CEO Creativity Planner fro Alexis aka Miss Trenchcoat. I'll post one of her videos below as an introduction.

# Get my garden planner put together. I have everythign printed. Just need cut and assembled. My plants in the greenhouse are going crazy and I've not documented a single thing. Probably because instead of just ordering a planner, I ordered an undated one that I could just copy and use from year to year. That's always a time-consuming project but I can't afford $40 a year for a planner for the garden. 

Here's a short video from Alexis with some great tips!

That's it for today! I hope you have a productive week.

All my best~

~Angela