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

TOP 3 3-15-21

 

The time has come to really dig in my heels and get back to business. 

Covid wasn't really an issue for me. I just got lazy. I didn't write, I didn't do much of anything I should have been doing.  I spent time with Bob when he was home. When he was gone, I did 'this and that' - nothing that really mattered.

How do you determine 'what matters'? How do I choose my Top 3.

Alexis Giostra (Alexis aka Miss Trenchcoat all across the internet) says that is the first step in determining what needs to be done... figure out what your priorities are. I'm posting her video at the end of this post.

For me, the blog posts are important. They keep my name out there in a cycle while helping to keep me focused on what I NEED to do rather than the nap I'd really like to take. hehe Curling up with a book some days just sounds much more fun.  Curling up with the book is one of my motivations for the Author Spotlight and Wednesday Reviews.

Next on my priority list is the writing. If I don't write, there won't be any more books and no supplemental income for when Bob retires. I have to find a time that lets my words flow efficiently while not sacrificing time with Bob. Nights work best for me. I also know that once supper is out of the way, all I want to do is spend the rest of the evening with him. 

Before I move on to the last item, let me stress that Bob is extremely supportive. If I tell him I need to write for a couple of hours, he totally gets it. I just live with the constant thought that if something ever happens to him, I don't want my lifelong memory to be that I didn't spend the time with him. Those are moments I can't get back. 

Last on my list is to clean out the office corner. 

The desk and the printer table are clean and I can be productive. However, it's the office island in serious need of a deep sorting. Once that is done, I can be more productive in the area. My planners and notebooks will be at hand, rather than moved from whatever 'mobile' site I've relocated to on any given day. 

We had this office/ art studio built so that I could be more productive... yet I'm not using the space efficiently. 

I've made some small changes to the clutter in the rest of the studio but I still have a long way to go. Every day that he is on the boat brings me closer to finding 'space peace'.

Here is Alexis' video: 

I'm hoping to share her CEO Strategy Planner for Creative Entrepreneurs soon. Alexis will be going through the planner om Saturday March 20th at 2 p.m. EST. Here's a link to her CHANNEL   If you've been looking for the planner to help get you on track, I hope you'll join us!

This week I'll be shining the spotlight on author, Roxanne St. Clair then reviewing her contribution to the 7 Brides for 7 Soldiers series. Adam is Book 2. If you ready Ryder's story (Book 1), you'll know that Adam is one of Bailey's (heroine) twin brothers.  My review will post on Wednesday.

Writer Tip Thursday comes from Lee Child then A. E. Chewing takes us inside her new Writer's Nest on Friday.

I hope you'll join me!

All my best

~Angela

WEEKLY RECAP

 Here's a post never seem to be able to write but I want to get better at following through with my TOP 3 post - so here we are.

Refresher:

Once I got started this week, I did really well.

As we know, Monday was a slow-to-start day but by about 5 p.m. I was ready to rock the world. I wrote Monday and Tuesday's blog posts then set myself up to write the rest of the week on Wednesday. The plan worked well.

I spent all day Tuesday watching the Plannathon videos. The series began the first week Bob was home and we took a three-day belated/ early anniversary trip. If  you're a follower of this blog than you know that when Bob is home, my time belongs to him. The only exception is Nano.

I am also working on a business plan for my creative business. I did contact Alexis Giostra about a collab with her using her CEO Planner. Once I fine-tune being able to use that for the creative side of my busines, I want to show authors how the same plan can work for them. 

So that's my week. I'm taking the weekend off to do some serious house cleaning then I'll be back on Monday with another Top 3.

All My Best

~Angela