We have now entered my favorite time of the year. Everything about October 1 thru December 31 sends delightful shivers through my body. Eee! Okay, I’ll calm down for now. As much joy as I get from these next 3 months, there’s still the matter of business and life.
Stay tuned at the end of the email for the winners of the giveaway!
September Goals
Last month, I had a wide variety of items on my goals list. Thankfully, I accomplished at least part of most of them. Did I confuse you there?
I did start getting up at 6 a.m. like I intended, but not every day like I wanted. Enough that I know that I like that routine and will continue to make it a priority.
My blood sugar is not under control yet, but it is a lot better. Taking my medicine and watching my portions has helped a lot. Now to rein the rest of it in and get those numbers to where they need to be!
I did plan a block schedule for my work. I’ve been working out the kinks and am excited to see how it works this month!
Obviously, I finished Bellanok and got it off to my editor.
The handbook from Realm Makers is done, and I got a jump start on the website, but it still needs work before we reveal it to the public. Soon, I hope.
So, I think September has been my most productive month of the year as far as goals go. I got a good jump on several projects and am excited to see what happens in the next 28 days!
How about those of you who shared your goals last time?
PAM: 1. finish revising my fantasy novel
2. plan and schedule some book events for Realmscapes
3. finalize everything for my fantasy picture book series, which a friend and I are indie publishing
4. attend an Artists in Residence weekend at Highlights
5. celebrate my granddaughter’s 10th birthday! “I’m gonna be double digits, Grandmom!”
CINDY: 1. Relocate to Iowa
2. Start my new job
3. Get the OCR text for A Suitable Arrangment settled
4. Do a couple marketing events (Book signing, a couple online things, etc)
5. Get busy on Christmas present crafts
GRETCHEN: 1. Finish my rewrite so I can plot in October for NaNoWriMo.
2. Keep up my morning quiet time.
3. Train for a half marathon the first weekend in November (my second one this year so continued training).
KELLIE: 1. Finish polishing book 1 before September 22.
2. Edit “The Lost Chapter”, which I plan to put up for free on my website in either October or November. (I’ve already got my other free chapters on there! That’s at least one August goal done!)
3. Battle that beast of a book 2. It needs a major rewrite.
4. Do all this around my three jobs. It’ll be tricky, but so far getting bits done on the commute to and from work and during lunch seems to be working.
Tips for Goals
Make your goals challenging, but achievable. They should not be so easy that you can achieve them with little to no effort. But if you make them too hard, you will find more discouragement than motivation.
October Goals
1. I need to work in some low carb recipes to help my husband and I get our blood sugar under control. This week, I’m going to plan out the month of recipes so that I can start shopping with purpose rather than on impulse. Though I don’t think I can get rid of pumpkin rolls . . .
2. Get Realm Makers website up and running while planning out some reveals for October and November. I need to get the website done this week so we can start adding the new stuff!
3. Plan and execute the launch of Bellanok as a complete ebook and paperback. (If you’d like to help, let me know!) I know there will be a blog tour, an online launch party, and other fun stuff. Yay!
4. Prepare for NaNoWriMo! I already know the story I’ll be writing, I just need to do some outlining and character sketching and all that jazz.
So, there you have it! All my goals and only 28 more days. With God, all things are possible!
Share your goals in the comments, and lets keep each other accountable! (I’ll be following up with you on the November goals post.)
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Giveaway Winners
A huge thank you to all of you who participated and helped to share the giveaway. I always have so much fun organizing these kinds of things. I won’t keep you in the dark any longer. The winners are as follows:
Heather S. won 9 Strategies to Build & Grow Your Author Platform.
Gabrielle Compolongo won Heir of Hope.
Sarah Grimm won the $20 Amazon Gift Card.
Congratulations, ladies! If you would just email me your physical addresses, I’ll get the books out to you.
Have a fabulous October, everyone!
I accomplished all my goals but the revisions. There was more work needed than I realized. I should have them done by Thursday (hopefully Wednesday!!) of this week.
Highlights was wonderful and Jerry & Eileen Spinelli are amazing. I survived my granddaughter turning 10. I have a book event for Realmscapes set for the 20th this month. And there’s a snag on my picture book series with the artwork. My illustrator friend had a couple of family crises and that put her behind.
October goals:
*Finish revisions for my fantasy novel
*Write a short story for Travis Perry’s newest anthology
*Teach at a one day conference in Georgetown, DE on the 15th
*host a book event in my hometown on the 20th for Realmscapes
*plan and hold a Great Pumpkin party (it’s the 50th anniversary!)
Congrats Heather, Gabrielle and Sarah!! Woot!
Congrats on getting most of your September goals done!
Sounds like you have a busy month ahead of you. Wow!
yep – but it’s a good busy. 🙂
I love hearing others’ goals! September was a pretty productive month for me, especially the end of the month. For October, my goals include:
*Host decluttering challenge & launch new product
*Finish painting baby’s room and move furniture in
*Publish one blog post per week and send weekly email newsletter
Thanks for sharing your goals! Hope you have a great October!
P.S. – Found you through the iBloom Facebook group 🙂
Aw … a baby! How fun and exciting.
Great goals that you can totally accomplish in a month.
Love this, getting me motivated to write down my own goals!