For about two months, I've made huge strides in the cleaning and organization of my house by following the guidelines at Fly Lady. The site provides small household tasks to do each day, which are fairly easy to achieve.
So I've been thinking: Why don't I follow the same practices when it comes to other things that matter to me? Here are some of the things I'm going to try to do at least once a week:
I think the key to all of this is going to be threefold: 1) Tackle only one of these new tasks at a time. 2) If a task doesn't have a discrete end (i.e. completing an article or submission), set a timer. 3) Keep daily goals small and achievable.
What about you? What are you trying to achieve that might benefit from making small efforts every day? (Hint, everything!)
So I've been thinking: Why don't I follow the same practices when it comes to other things that matter to me? Here are some of the things I'm going to try to do at least once a week:
- Check my LJ F-List and comment on the entries that interest me (if you don't comment, people don't know you're reading!)
- Post something to LJ that's not a LJ Idol post or article link (such as this current post).
- Schedule some tweets, including retweets for all the loyal friends who have been retweeting my tweets.
- Post something to my Belated Mommy blog.
- Post something to my writer's blog at AlyceWilson.com.
- Post something to my Goodreads author's blog.
- Review submissions for Wild Violet.
- Apply to at least one writing job and/or send at least one query or submission.
I think the key to all of this is going to be threefold: 1) Tackle only one of these new tasks at a time. 2) If a task doesn't have a discrete end (i.e. completing an article or submission), set a timer. 3) Keep daily goals small and achievable.
What about you? What are you trying to achieve that might benefit from making small efforts every day? (Hint, everything!)
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Having achievable goals makes such a difference :) Flylady annoys me somewhat, but she has some good points, too.
Where can I find path:ethic?
It's my wordpress blog:
http://thisclimbingbean.wordpress.com
I'm bookmarking your blog but am trying to figure out a way to follow it via e-mail. I didn't see anything obvious on the home page. I follow
There's probably a way to import the feed into LJ, but then it would just get lost in my F-List!
I've put some widgets on just now so you can subscribe via email. Thanks for pointing that out :) I have trouble keeping up with people if they're not on my LJ feed or wordpress reader. I heard there's a way to get stuff into your LJ too, but... I'm too lazy to find out how to do it ;D
My writing goals could certainly benefit from me making small efforts every day. Also, a little bit of cleaning/organizing every day. I'm hesitant to say anything definite while in the midst of this move, but soon my life will settle down and I'll figure things out.
Good luck! I missed seeing you at Otakon!
I cannot wait until I'm actually running my own house (probably with someone to care for living in it with me) and then all the good ideas I see from her and get from other sources can be put into action!
Right now we are sort of falling apart without a decent calendar so I do aim to get her calendar asap (I've had it before but I didn't get one for this year). The people I'm staying with currently are also SHEs/Flybabies, at least the wife is, so we have that in common. We are currently working on cleaning up after every meal - ideally both the kitchen and the dining room, but if it's just the dining room that's at least a good start. We're also working on going for a walk most days (this is easy with the kids because going for a walk is oftentimes the only thing that stops them killing each other, but still...)
I'm also working on emails. I was drowning in emails, and I knew I'd never catch up -- jump in where we are, right? ;-) -- so I gave myself a fresh start. I got a new folder, labelled it "EMAIL AMNESTY" and just moved all the emails out of my inbox to there. This is like the trashcan, only better. For all intents and purposes those emails are GONE and I don't have to worry about them any more. BUT, if I am searching for a specific email and one from there comes up, then I take it out of the Email Amnesty folder and file it appropriately. But otherwise, that is where emails go to die :-) 98%+ of them I never see again.
So, after my fresh start, I am also being more diligent about playing The Email Game https://emailgame.baydin.com/learn.html - only works with google) and aiming to get to inbox zero every time I'm on the computer (5 days out of 7?). I put the email game on the lowest settings, 10 messages at a time. So I can do a few sessions in between my other online stuff. I tend to be averaging 25 emails per day.
Also aiming to check both LJ and twitter more frequently. Think that's it for now :)