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Category: Project Worthwhile Life
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Alexandria’s Adventures with Permission Slips
My fourth Dr Amantha Imber energy experiment was permission slips. The links to the others are at the bottom of this post.
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Alexandria’s Adventures with Energy Tracking
Energy Tracking was the third experiment of my contribution to Dr Amantha Imber’s new book. You can find links to the others at the bottom of this post.
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Alexandria’s Adventures with the Feelings Wheel
The Feelings Wheel experiment is the second of my Dr Amantha Imber energy experiments for her new book.
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Alexandria’s Adventures with a Project Pause
When I heard Dr Amantha Imber was looking for volunteers for eight weeks of energy experiments, I was all in. This week was all about the project pause.
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Q1 2025 Review & Q2 2025 Plan
So. It looks like I didn’t get around to admitting I’d made a first quarter plan let alone making it public. But it also looks as though I haven’t made a plan since the first quarter of 2024.
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Priorities and Posteriorities
I recently learned about the concept of posteriorities, though of course they’ve been around a lot longer than that.
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Welcome 2025
As it turns out, 2024 was another version of 2023, so I welcome 2025 with open arms. Serves me right for saying it couldn’t be worse! Quick recap The usual tongue in cheek review of the last couple of years. Goodbye 2024 The 2024 horoscopes predicted government changes, and given there were a lot of…
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2024 Transplantiversary
The last few months have been so busy I barely saw it coming, and now, all of a sudden, it’s my 2024 transplantiversary – my 13th!
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Planning for Chaos
The next four to eight weeks are going to be chaotic, with house finishing noise. So I wondered, how can I plan when I know there will be chaos?
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Q4 2023 Review and Q1 2024 Plan
It’s exactly what it sounds like – I’m going to review Q4 2023, and taking the results into account, plan Q1 2024. As I mentioned in the 2024 plan, it’s all about building on last year’s foundations.
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December 2023 Progress Report
Ah, December 2023 – the final lingering touch of one of my least favourite years. More appointments… Only this time following up on the surgery, though as a bonus, visits to the Cookie Shop. (Which didn’t inspire the story, but did remind me to publish it).
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Welcome 2024!
I’m sure I’m not alone when I say welcome 2024! For some of us, 2023 was a crap year, and I’m hoping for better in 2024. Can’t be any worse than 2023 (touch wood)
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November 2023 Progress Report
November 2023 was taken up with a lot of medical appointments. Which quite frankly, are exhausting.
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Reset and Take Control
There’s four weeks to Christmas, and five until we greet 2024. It’s time to start thinking about a reset and take control of your life.
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Q3 2023 Review (eek) & Q4 2023 Plan (breathing out)
And now it’s time for the Q3 2023 review and the revised Q4 2023 plan. How awful the year is nearly over, but then again, I guess it just gets us closer to a new start next year!
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September October 2023 Progress Report
It feels like a lot happened during September October 2023, but that’s mainly because it’s a relatively long time (8 weeks). During that time, I prepared to go into hospital, stayed for a week, and now I’m, out and still recuperating now.
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2023 Transplantiversary
As I write, today is my 2023 Transplantiversary, though you won’t see this post for a few days more. It was 2011 when the call came, and I berated the doctor for ringing and ringing all my numbers continuously until I finally answered. Not that I know anything about my donor, except that he/she/they died…
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August 2023 Progress Report
Here in August 2023, I’m back to cartoon head spinning as the month whips past me, leaving me wondering where it went.
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July 2023 Progress Report
July 2023 was a much better month than June. A happier, more productive, and mostly more settled month.
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Q2 2023 Review (so-so) & Q3 Plan (hopeful)
I was hopeful for the Q2, and rest of year plans. And while the review tells me some of it went went well, others, not so much… As always, there’s a pivot involved. 2023 Vision Stephen King Famous Q2 2023 Plan My plan remained the same. But I planned to focus on publishing with the…
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Change is Good or Better
As it turns out June 2023 sucked so much I’m not even going to write about it, just let its memory slip into oblivion. I’m going to talk about change instead, because change is hard, but necessary.
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May 2023 Progress Report
May 2023 was a weird month ranging from laid out after my Covid vaccination to up and about, posing for a photshoot for new headshots. (Which went swimmingly, and you can look forward to seeing the new images soon).
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April 2023 Progress Report
April 2023 was a very social month, dominated by friends stopping over during their whirlwind visit to Australia.
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Q2 2023 Plan
Moving onto the Q2 2023 plan, I feel more hopeful about achieving something by the end of the year. Usually, Q2 is the Time of Great Forgetting. In the Northern Hemisphere summer is on it’s way, and goals just get buried under a load of summer related activities.
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Q1 2023 Review
My Q1 2023 review has mixed results. Q1 is supposedly the time of Great Excitement. When you load up with your new goals, and make good progress towards them.
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March 2023 Progress Report
March 2023 was a weekly mess of quiet preperation followed by a frenetic activity followed by prep followed by activity. I left the month almost as exhauted as when I entered it.
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February 2023 Progress Report
February 2023 was a month mostly devoted to rebranding and redeveloping my websites. Not that there’s been a great deal to see on this site. Some of it was even on my Kanban boards. Highlights from February 2023 I admit having to give up on the novella challenge was hard, and I moped for a…
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More Morning Routine
I’m not sure whether it’s because this is already an unusual year, but I’ve been thinking more about my morning routine. Perhaps because there’s been so little else to pin the days on, and the lazy, langourous, sleepy sense of nothing much happening lasts for about 87 hours per day.
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January 2023 Progress Report
January 2023 has been difficult for me without a plan to be going on with. I know I posted something towards planning 2023, but there weren’t any goals – not SMART, not HARD, not even getting better.
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Planning 2023
I’m a bit stumped when it comes to planning 2023; there’s a great deal of uncertainty and unpredicatibility coming up for me this year.
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2022 Year End Review
My 2022 year end review almost didn’t happen; I received reviews from every single company I did business with during the year, and I could care less. But when I was working as a Project Manager, it always annoyed me when the press of new plans meant skipping the project reviews. Besides, I wrote a…
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December 2022 Progress Report
So. December 2022. Last month of the year. Supposedly the time you close out the year, ready to start afresh the very next day. I’m fairly certain I didn’t get to that…
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November 2022 Progress Report
What can I say about November 2022? I finally got my sauna! And while getting it unpacked and put up almost killed me, along with the fencing, I’m really happy it’s here.
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October 2022 Progress Report
October 2022 is over already! A day seems to take forever, but the month seems to have flown by. As usual.
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2022 Transplantiversary
It’s that time again – the 2022 transplantiversary. Eleven years and counting – officially past the nice, neat, predictable transplanted lifetime.
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Q3 2022 Review & Q4 Plan
Well, Q3 may have gone a lot better if I hadn’t missed the first couple of months, but with a new spirit of get-it-done-ishness, my Q4 plan can only make it better!
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September 2022 Progress Report
September 2022 was notable for a deluge of stationery shop emails inviting me to pre-order my 2023 diary. Which was also handy for remembering to start my Christmas shopping list!
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July-August 2022 Progress Report
This is a combined July-August 2022 report, because quite frankly I’ve no idea why I didn’t do one in July. And I’m not going to bother this late.
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Q3 2022 Plan
I can’t help but feel more positive about my Q3 2022 plan, there’s just enough change to make me feel like I might be getting somewhere.
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Q2 2022 Review
So. Q2 2022 Review eh? Pffffffffff! For those who don’t know, that’s how you write the sound of someone blowing a raspberry
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June 2022 Progress Report
June 2022, was pretty much missing in action – I went out to visit a doctor and came home with a lurgy or two. It seems I need to build up my immunity after being confined to the house for the better part of two years.
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May 2022 Progress Report
What can I say about May 2022, except that it came and went way too quickly. And I discovered there’s a world day for bees!
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April 2022 Progress Report
So, April 2022 marked the start of the second quarter, and my second 12 Week Year, the first using the 12 Week Year For Writers. And started with a sense of excitement.
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Q2 2022 Plan
Hopefully my Q2 2022 plan will build on the lessons learned in Q1 and turn out more successfully.
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Q1 2022 Review
My Q1 2022 review tells me I haven’t stuck to my plan. Though, to be honest, we all knew that already.
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March 2022 Progress Report
The end of March 2022 marks the end of the quarter, and I can’t help feeling the year is over. Though I suppose my first 12 Week Year is. It’s left me feeling tired and a bit irritable.
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February 2022 Progress Report
Now that it’s February 2022, thanks to the 12 Week Year, I have the uncomfortable feeling the year is half over. And it kind of is.
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Fail to Success
But now I’m a writer, I can “fail to success,” as Dean Wesley Smith often says.
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January 2022 Progress Report
January 2022, the first four weeks of my first attempt at a 12 Week Year. With mixed results.
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Q1 2022 Plan
Right, so the Q1 2022 plan is a good time to tell you I’m not going to wite a 2022 plan as such.
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2021 Review (Year’s End)
As 2021 draws to its close, it’s time to look back and take stock in a 2021 review. Because if you don’t, what will you learn, and how can you do better next year?
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Q4 2021 Review
Q4 2021 for me was definitely a Big Fat Restart, coming as it did with the return of my inner dialogue.
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December 2021 Progress Report
Ah, December 2021, when the year that was FINALLY ran out of steam and ground down to the end. I thought we’d never make it.
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November 2021 Progress Report
November 2021 was like when someone (e.g., your recorded meditation) tells you to set your mind free and let it go anywhere it wants to go, but you don’t know where that is. And the options are endless so you don’t do much.
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October 2021 Progress Report
October 2021 marked the lifting of restrictions and the end of COVID lock downs. We were watching the vaccination rate increase, and I felt like a kid again, counting down the last couple of weeks before school broke out for the holidays!
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2021 Transplantiversary
My 2021 transplantiversary marks the TENTH year of my transplant! It feels like a real achievement, and I feel like I should get it a gift to commemorate the day we met.
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Q3 2021 Review
The third quarter, as Dean Wesley Smith calls it, is the Time of Great Regret. And for me, Q3 2021 was definitely that.
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September 2021 Progress Report
September 2021 is best summed up by Dickens. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
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August 2021 Progress Report
Well, it’s August 2021, and I’m still here. Nothing much has changed since last month… Remember the good old days when something was always happening?
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July 2021 Progress Report
Is it July 2021 already? It’s almost not worth ticking the days off the calendar – my life feels like one long hump day. Groundhog Wednesday…
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Q2 2021 Review
The first quarter has been and gone, and now we’re doing the 2021 Q2 Review for, as Dean Wesley Smith calls it the Time of Great Forgetting.
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June 2021 Progress Report
June 2021. I’ve no idea how to describe June. Or where it went. Though I know I wrote a new short story a collection…
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May 2021 Progress Report
May 2021 turns out to be the month I broke, and then got my shit back together again. Struggling with bronchitis, but making progress. It feels bloody good to get back to living again.
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April 2021 Progress Report
April 2021 pretty much followed on from where March left off, and I ended the month still tired and needing some rest.
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2021 Q1 Review
Before we get to the Q1 2021 review, let’s take a quick look back at the planning.
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March 2021 Progress Report
Spent most of March 2021 feeling exhausted and napping. I am one of those people tend to sleep when times get tough, so I’m starting to feel the pandemic is finally getting to me.
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February 2021 Progress Report
February 2021 was mostly devoted to settling the new addition to our family in. There was a lot of dog proofing, though we found out fairly quickly it was mostly inadequate, so we now have boxes stacked above puppy height with all the portable things.
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January 2021 Progress Report
January 2021 is off to a good start. And hopefully, I’ll continue to be a little kinder to myself, and remember not to think too far ahead, and to stay focused on each day.
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Planning 2021
Before we get to Planning 2021, let’s take a quick look back at previous years. According to global horoscope predictions…
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2020 Year End Review
Skipping December 2020 because we spent most of it in lock down. Moving right on to the 2020 Year End Review, and from there my plans for 2021.
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September November 2020 Progress Report
Right. Well. Um. I had a stroke. The months between September November 2020 have been crammed full of doctors appointments, with naps in the spaces.
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August 2020 Progress Report
I about reached the end of my rope in August 2020. For the most part nothing much has changed for me since January. I stay home, I write, I develop my Photoshop skills, I get through the day. But even I am having difficulties. I’d probably still choose to stay home, but having the choice…
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July 2020 Progress Report
July 2020 was a mixed blessing. One the one hand, the planet, and Melbourne in particular is a disaster.
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2020 Q2 Review
Here we are at the 2020 Q2 review already. It seems the paradox of this year is that it seems like no time, as well as centuries, have passed since the Q1 review.
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June 2020 Progress Report
June 2020 feels like a five-minute disaster movie sandwiched in between a bunch of other disaster movies in a century long disaster movie marathon.
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May 2020 Progress Report
Sitting here, preparing to review May 2020, it just feels like a sucky month. And this is, of course, the point of a monthly review – there was always more that happened than you can remember.
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April 2020 Progress Report
April 2020 just happened in between all the spaces. And there were a lot of spaces as (unsurprisingly) my appointments and meetings were cancelled or rescheduled one by one.
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2020 Q1 Review
Before I start with the 2020 Q1 review, let’s take a quick look back As it turns out, those astrological predictions of a turbulent start to 2020 weren’t that far off.
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March 2020
March 2020 was a horror month. There was/is all the Covid-19 shit going on, but more importantly for us, we had to say goodbye to Pretty Girl. She leaves an enormous hole, but also the opportunity to consciously reshape our lives with better habits. Virtue Feb Mar Notes Pleasure: AdventurePlan and take an international vacation…
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February 2020
Made some progress in February 2020, but I feel the year has already run away without me and I’ll not be able to catch up.
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Pleasure and Pain of Healthy Habits
My last Transplant Clinic appointment was less pleasant than I’d hoped, and now I’m back to contemplating the nature of choice and healthy habits.
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January 2020
January 2020 marked the start of the transition to Quarterly planning. It’s been both harder and easier than I expected. Virtue Dec Jan Notes Pleasure: AdventurePlan and take an international vacation late Q3/early Q4. – 😐 In the main, I’ve just looked at the dog and felt guilty about planning a trip to take place…
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Planning 2020
Before we get to planning 2020, let’s take a quick look back. According to global horoscope predictions (if you believe in that kind of thing):
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2019 Year End Review
Now the year is done, it’s time for the 2019 year-end review. I wouldn’t say that 2019 was my best year ever, but I feel like I made some progress towards my goals, especially the writing. Not quite to plan, but getting somewhere.
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December 2019
I’ve been so busy planning 2020, that December 2019 has become a distant memory. I’ve had to go back through my journal to see what happened.
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November 2019
November 2019 was difficult as Pretty Girl has been very ill, and we thought we were going to lose her. Not that we’ll have her for much longer, but at least we have time to prepare.
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October 2019 Progress Report
Is it my imagination, or did we skip right over October 2019? I mean I know there was stuff that happened, but I feel a bit like Speedy Gonzales whipped by and I’m left clinging to the ceiling by my fingernails.
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2019 Transplantiversary
It’s the 2019 Transplantiversary already – number eight. As I mentioned in the mid-year review, my transplant is deteriorating, and if I’m good, I’ll get at least another five years from it.
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September 2019 Progress Report
And that’s September 2019 been and gone. Is it just me, or are the days flying by faster and faster? Or is it that Christmas is in the stores already? The weather’s been good enough for working outdoors (with the laptop), but September 2019 has also had a lot of very cold and wet days.…
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August 2019 Progress Report
During August 2019, I took a few weeks off for some navel-gazing. And now I’ve started developing a new kind of normal. It’s been hard work.
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July 2019 Progress Report
July 2019 featured the transplant rejection scare, the month when the Earth spun upside down on its axis and inside out.
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2019 Mid-Year Review
Seeing as I revised my 2019 planning and combined my 2017 and 2019 goals and themes in April 2019, a 2019 Mid-Year Review hardly seems worthwhile.
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June 2019 Progress Report
Due to a recent transplant rejection scare, I’ve lost track of June 2019. It took up a lot of brain power and time, but thankfully was just a scare.
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May 2019 Progress Report
May 2019 marks a small but significant change in direction for little writing business. It seems that April’s clearing out had freed some time and space for other concerns.
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How to Choose What To Do First
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. I have so much to do that I’m not sure what to do first. Or second. Or last for that matter.
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April 2019 Progress Report
April 2019 turns out to have been a big month for getting rid of junk, working on my business, and indirectly on personal goals.
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March 2019
As March 2019 disappears into long-term memory, I find myself gasping and trying to figure out where the year went. Already.
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February 2019 Progress Review
And already February 2019 has passed. I mentioned last month that it would be interesting to see how the record heat/climate change would affect election campaigns, and the major parties are already off and running.
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January 2019 Progress Review
That’s January 2019 been and gone. I feel like we’re off to a good start, but I’m exhausted thinking about all the stuff I hope to get done should I survive the Summer.