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January 22, 2019
My 2018 Project Report
Writing annual and monthly project reports was a really beneficial practice for me last year. I have found that going through this process helps me see how well I aligned my time with my goals for the year.
I’m breaking down this report into three parts:
How I spent my time The progress I made towards my annual goals What to replicate, eliminate, and continue in 2019 How I Spent My Time in 2018
December 20, 2018
November 2018 Project Report
Welcome to my November 2018 Project Report. My goal with these monthly reports is to help other authors, entrepreneurs, leaders, or anyone else who wants to make an impact through their work. Each month It share how I spent my time as an author and creative entrepreneur and the successes, failures, and lessons I learned along the way.
How I spent My Time in November 2018I track every minute of time I spend working on projects using an app called Toggl (here is why). Here is a list of the pro...
November 28, 2018
October 2018 Project Report
Welcome to my October 2018 Project Report. My goal with these monthly reports is to help other authors, entrepreneurs, leaders, or anyone else who wants to make an impact through their work. Each month It share how I spent my time as an author and creative entrepreneur and the successes, failures, and lessons I learned along the way.
How I spent My Time in October 2018I track every minute of time I spend working on projects using an app called Toggl (here is why). Here is a list of the proje...
October 17, 2018
September 2018 Project Report
Welcome to my September 2018 Project Report. My goal with these monthly reports is to help other authors, entrepreneurs, leaders, or anyone else who wants to make an impact through their work. Each month It share how I spent my time as an author and creative entrepreneur and the successes, failures, and lessons I learned along the way.
How I Spent My Time in September 2018I track every minute of time I spend working on projects using an app called Toggl (here is why). Here is a list of the p...
September 21, 2018
August 2018 Project Report
Welcome to my August 2018 Project Report. My goal with these monthly reports is to help other authors, entrepreneurs, leaders, or anyone else who wants to make an impact through their work. Each month It share how I spent my time as an author and creative entrepreneur and the successes, failures, and lessons I learned along the way.
How I Spent My Time in August 2018I track every minute of time I spend working on projects using an app called Toggl (here is why). Here is a list of the project...
August 15, 2018
July 2018 Project Report
Welcome to my July 2018 Project Report. My goal with these monthly reports is to help other authors, entrepreneurs, leaders, or anyone else who wants to make an impact through their work. Each month It share how I spent my time as an author and creative entrepreneur and the successes, failures, and lessons I learned along the way.
How I Spent My Time in July 2018I track every minute of time I spend working on projects using an app called Toggl (here is why). Here is a list of the projects I...
August 1, 2018
Daily Blog Burnout
It was bound to happen.
I have posted something new to this Daily Learning Log every day since November 1, 2017. That is nine months straight without missing a day.
First, let’s look at the negative:
I consistently spend more time on this daily blog than any other project other than email (see my monthly project reports). I get almost no website traffic to these posts (other than the time Gary Vaynerchuk retweeted an article I wrote about his Instagram strategy). The posts focus mostly on wr...July 31, 2018
Gary Vaynerchuk’s Content Model
Gary Vaynerchuk’s team puts out a lot of content on social media. How do they come up with so many ideas? How do they have so much to share with Gary Vee is running a multi-million dollar company?
His team just put out a great Slideshare summary of the process they use on social media to create a lot of content with a lot of impact.
They call in The Content Pyramid,
Essentially, it works like this:
Create long-form pillar content (keynote speech, vlog, podcast) Create short-form content (a...July 30, 2018
Two Types of Social Media Content for Authors
The Book Designer recently offered some guidance for authors planning Instagram content:
Post content to appeal to a “bookish” audience. Post content to appeal to an audience that loves the themes of your books.The common theme is clear: share posts that reflect a shared love between you and your audience.
Do you love books? Find an audience that loves books, too, by consistently sharing bookish content.
If, instead, you really love the themes of the books you are writing, then focus your...
July 29, 2018
Don’t Wait for Ideal Circumstances to Write (A Writing Lesson from E. B. White)
I really needed to read this quote this week from E. B. White:
I’m able to work fairly well among ordinary distractions. My house has a living room that is at the core of everything that goes on: it is a passageway to the cellar, to the kitchen, to the closet where the phone lives. There’s a lot of traffic. But it’s a bright, cheerful room, and I often use it as a room to write in, despite the carnival that is going on all around me.
In consequence, the members of my household never pay the s...
