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Archives for July 2018

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The Journey to Magnificence: Week Twenty-One

Welcome to The Journey to Magnificence! This is week twenty-one: July 1-7, 2018.

I hope all my American readers had a great Fourth of July!

I capitalized on the time off work to spend on the blog, doing both writing and administrative work. In general, I feel like this week has been all right, especially in terms of my to-do lists. But I think I really knocked it out of the park on the writing part since all 5 of August’s Thursday posts got finished and scheduled!

Yay!

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What I Said I’d Do

  • Re-evaluating how much I can actually do in any given day, and cut out the to-dos that just don’t seem to get done.
  • Write a lot from Wednesday through Saturday to make the most of the holiday.
  • Finish Module 4 of Intentional Blog AND all their Action Steps
  • Make a plan for 30 Days or Less to VA Success

What I Actually Worked On

  • Got better at deciding which to-dos to actually DO
  • Scheduled the all 5 Thursday posts for August and got 2/3 of a post for September written

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10 Reasons to Write Every Day, Even If You Suck

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People who write on a regular basis are more likely to have their shit together.

I totally made that up, but you’re paying attention now, aren’t you?

What if I told you that if you sat down to write for at least ten minutes every day, you’d feel more in control of your life?

What if you kept writing every day until it became a habit that you pretty much couldn’t function without?

And what if those words you wrote every day eventually turned into a book or some other passion project?

All those things are possible.

For me, when I was in college, I wrote pretty much every day for my Fanfiction magnum opus, a 230,000 word Harry Potter story that’s still getting reviews, favorites, and follows to this day, and the last chapter was posted on December 11th, 2015.

What if you wrote every day and discovered that when you journal your feelings and emotions onto the page, you felt less burdened by them?

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The Journey to Magnificence: Week Twenty

Welcome to The Journey to Magnificence! This is week twenty: June 24-30, 2018.

This week felt like I was hanging on for dear life as time swept forward. While I still managed to track my time, I didn’t stick with my plans, mostly in the evenings. I usually write daily summaries in the evenings so that my weekends don’t get eaten up by writing this, yet this week I didn’t write any summaries at all before bed.

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What I Said I’d Do

  • Finish module 4 of Intentional Blog
  • Finish module 1 of 30 Days or Less to VA Success
  • Watch 2 more Mindset University videos
  • Finish writing my Thursday posts through August. I have them scheduled through July, so I only need to get 5 more done!
  • Pre-write Medium posts as the week goes on. My goal will be to have them ready through July 13th. A tall order, but I think I might be able to do it!

What I Actually Worked On

  • Wrote Medium posts only one day in advance. Didn’t get through July 13th.
  • Finished most of the content for 3/5 of the August Thursday posts.
  • Organized blog meta into Airtable
  • Finished Mindset University!

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