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END OF THE ROUND REVIEW
I like a lot of my new daily goals, but by the end of the three months I was really missing having more intense short term comparable goals. Still, the theme was to align with myself and how I feel about these new habits and that has been accomplished.

The other part of this was to take a cooling off period of up to a year to unfocus, and look at the bigger picture, to see what opportunities I would like to pursue next. This has also been up to a good start. There are absolutely items that I thought I would be more interested in, that didn't work out that way once I was able to focus on them. And some others that I enjoyed but either wasn't able to focus on, or didn't have the correct resources to do yet. 

As such, I'll be taking some of these goals off for the next quarter, and I'll be limiting the monthly goals to three per month, since that's what seems to be reasonably achievable. 

MINIGOALS
Mostly I need the time off! Probably it'll end up with me playing a lot of Animal Crossing and maybe crafting, or reading those books I've had out of the library for weeks now. I'm playing it by ear, and listening to what feels right!

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AFTER ACTION REVIEW:
The rest of the week was focused on a report out for a major project for work. The report out went well, but it was definitely stressful. As such, when I got home on Friday I started to play Animal Crossing and didn't stop playing until a couple hours ago! It was exactly the low brain power no stress game I needed this weekend. 

Today I was feeling more up to other tasks. So I did laundry, loaded/started the dishwasher, then vacuumed the whole house twice before cleaning the vacuum itself. I also cleaned the air filter fan for good measure. The air quality in this house will be so good after this! Once I got around to starting my computer for the first time this weekend I ended up finishing up a lot of the rest of my online tasks. 

Last notes; I've been enjoying the Masterclass I'm currently listening to by R L Stine, though I'm not sure if I'll finish it in time or not. (This one I'm sure I'll finish eventually!) No new books got finished this week, but I'm well ahead of the goal on this one so I'm not at all worried about it. I also just started the third book in a series I quite like, so I'm sure that'll get done in the next few days too.

MINIGOALS:
Finish out what I can, and mentally prepare to forgive myself for not finishing the rest. My job is essential so I'm still working a full 40 hours, though some is from home. Thus I'm not sure what time I'll have to dedicate to finishing these goals. My main focus is not burning myself out, and after that to do what I can when I can. 

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AFTER ACTION REVIEW
This week was a bit rough so far. I tried working form home for the first time and it didn't go well. By that I mean I didn't get as much done as I as hoping. I should have tapered my expectations ahead of time. A lesson the universe has tried to teach me before, but I didn't. Instead I overworked myself a bit and got a massive migraine on Wednesday. That did give me time to recover and reset with lots of resting, so now I'm doing alright and generally on the up and up. 

Overall I'm pretty happy with what I did get done, and take the big action to forgive myself for what I didn't get done. No catching up, just a fresh slate to work from!

MINIGOALS
Recover. Listen to the next Masterclass. Edit and submit flashfiction. Do a simple upcycling project. 

How have all of the changes been affecting  you?

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Well, it's been quite a week both in the outside world and in my work life. (Ok the work life things have been more big, exciting, and scary while the outside world things have been just scary.) 

AFTER ACTION REVIEW
I finally finished the audiobook which allowed me to focus on the rest of the page. I was able to finish the Masterclass. It wasn't as relevant to writing as I was hoping. (It was about comedy.) The exercise was going reasonably well, with yellow days being 75% of my goal complete. I'm concerned that I won't be getting even that with the work from home happening this week. We'll see. 

The community connections, I've completely forgotten what that was supposed to be. I could take a guess, but even then I'm not loving the idea, so I'm cutting it. Same for the workshops, which have all gotten cancelled/postponed etc. The list next week will be a little more trimmed! Finally I did a good push on blog posts. They were all ones I had already written, but I finally took the time to read them over and post them. It really shouldn't be as big of a deal as it is in my mind. 

MINIGOALS
1) Stay sane while working from home. (I love my home and I'm an introvert, so it's not missing people. It's the fact that it just takes so much longer to things! I have to wait for people to do the things for me at work! Maybe it's the control freak in me, but I just, ugh!) 

2) Finish scheduling blog posts.

3) Look into the CSA, particularly seeing if a local place is willing to deliver due to the current world situation. 

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MAJOR progress this week! What was the change? I told myself I was writing a to do list and posting it to my accountability group every day. That was it. I didn't even say that I was going to do the list, but you know, if I write the list I usually do it. One simple change and suddenly it feels like the fog has lifted, the audiobook is done and most of the board is looking pretty green!

In other major news; one of my stories got accepted into an anthology! This was the one I sent out in Jan for my goals list, and I'm ecstatic! 

AFTER ACTION REVIEW
1) Audiobook - Done, done, done! I've learned A LOT while doing this project, and I didn't budget the learning curve time. You'd think by now I'd know that I'll probably do five hours of a new project and then want to go back and redo them once I know the best practices. Alas, the universe taught me the lesson again. Perhaps this time it'll stick. Either way I did enjoy doing this, and would be happy to do it again. Furthermore I do intend to have a blog post about it sometime this upcoming weekend, so keep an eye out for it!

2) Town Hall - Skipped it. I knew that I was within finishing distance of the audiobook so I went home instead. It's also been a big stressful but kinda in a good way (big project kickoff) at work so I knew that an extra couple hours at home would be good for me personally. One of the goals for this year is to listen to what my brain and body need more, and I did listen, and I took an action on it. That's a big win for me!

3) Finances - My finances weren't quite as aligned as is ideal. I spent a bit more while traveling than I expected at the start of the year. That's ok, I decided to spend the money to take a train. For one I don't like driving and for two it's better for the environment. Other than cost it's worth it to me, I just wasn't thinking about it in that way when I made my budget at the start of the year. Other than that I should cut back a little bit on impulse games/Amazon purchases.

MINIGOALS
Masterclass, upcycling project, and community connections. (If the last one is possible with the corona virus scare. If not I'm going to put it as a yellow for effort, and otherwise not worry about it.) 

Also one blog post about working on the audiobook.

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Where did the time go?! I've been trying to finish out the audiobook project and there's always one more thing to do or apply etc. It's a lot of work and been taking up a lot of time! Because of that everything else feels like it's at a standstill. Hopefully the dam will break this week and I can start to work on the other smaller projects/otherwise feel like I'm making progress all over the place. 

AFTER ACTION REVIEW:
1) Audiobook - Half way done with the master edits, after doing a few rerecords. The amount of learning one can have after applying a new skill for ten hours is outstanding! I can already hear it in the quality of the recordings. It's nice to have that improvement, though it'll also be nice to have this project buttoned up! (Remind me to always double the amount of time I think a new project is going to take!) 

2) Prep for Board Games at my place - It went really well! After cleaning every surface I was able to get into the stuff that doesn't get cleaned as often. The corners of the room, the front door/windows got a wash. (So much less dog slobber!) Went through the board games shelves and got rid of eight or so games while completely reorganizing what's there. It's crazy how many more games one plays when they're simply easier to get to! (I turned a lot of the games on their side, instead of having them stacked. Such a small change, such a big effect!) The event itself was a lot of fun too, no surprise. I'd like to host these a little more often, if I have the energy!

3) Small goals - I did start to refocus on the Masterclass and I'm almost done listening to the next one before putting together the notes and calling it good. I think it'll be pretty swift after the audiobook is done. Financials and the upcycling project didn't get looked at at all for the same reasons.

MINIGOALS
Big Goals:
1) Audiobook - Finish it! Submit it! Click the button!

2) Go to the town hall this week! Do the thing!

Small Goals: (In case I need to productively distract myself)
Read the way too many books I got from the library. Masterclass. Financial Review. 

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Hello everyone!

It's been a bit of time. I was off traveling, which was quite relaxing and overall a blast. I spent a lot of time focusing on being present and enjoying the experience, which helped make it a wonderful time. That also meant that once I got home I wasn't ready to put my nose to the grindstone again for my goals. Instead I took the time to enjoy existing for a while. (My anxiety was particularly low.) It was kinda wonderful. 

Still, I am ready to start working on these goals again. (Although hopefully keeping the anxiety pretty low at the same time.) Despite not focusing on any goals I was still generally keeping up with my to do list and most of my scheduled weekly goals did get finished anyways. (Apparently this system is working pretty well for me?!) 

MINIGOALS
Big Goals:
1) Audiobook - First recordings of everything have been completed. Now I need to do final reviews, master edits, and put it all together. This needs to get submitted before the checkin on the 7th. It's close, but that's relative when I've already put in 15 hours and it needs another 5, at least.

2) Prep for Board Games at my place - I did a lot of the needed cleaning for this already this weekend including washing just about everything. Scrubbing the counters. Clearing off the table for the first time in months. Making decisions about items that I'd been thinking about getting rid of, etc. There isn't a ton left that needs to get done, but I'd like to continue to use this momentum to get to some of those once a year cleaning activities. Having a clean house is already making me happier, and the board games themselves will be a lot of fun.

Small Goals:
1) Refocus on a Masterclass - I was just reading a book about how comedy can help people connect. I know there was at least one comedy class that I had been listening too before, so I'd like to get back to listening to that again.

2) Financial Review for Feb - Checking in and making sure I'm on budget. 

3) Upcycling Project - I have a couple in mind and haven't taken actions on any of them since getting back from vacation. I'd like to take one step before Wednesday's checkin. 

​What are you looking forward to in March? 

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It was an absolute mess at work last week which meant I needed to take the evenings to recharge and I ended up missing the last checkin. This one is late because I had a friend over for the weekend and I was focusing on that instead of writing this up. The weekend was a lot of fun, it was wonderful to catch up with said friend and otherwise have some forced relaxation and good food. 

Audiobook - finished recording a first draft of all short stories. Still need to do poetry recording.

My back was feeling particularity bad this week, which was some of the reason that work was a mess. (Or at least felt like a mess.) Thus me not doing exercise most days. This week I'll be traveling, so I'm not worrying about it. I'll get back on the wagon after that. 

I did do all of the minigoals from last checkin! So progress, slowly and surely! 

MINIGOALS
I have 1.5days at home before going off on another vacation. During that time I want to make some major big goal progress.

Record poetry first drafts.

Finish rough editing of all short story and poetry files. Upload to Drive and download onto tablet so that I can listen to them while traveling. 

​Taxes.

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AFTER ACTION REVIEW
Overall an ok week. Finished the finances for the month within budget which is very exciting! Did another Wikipedia update and another blog post. 

One big change is that when I do stuff early, such as Quora this week, I'll be filling it out for the timeslot that it's next scheduled for. One one hand this will have me miss some data about when I normally finish some of these activities. On the other it's going to be a lot easier to see what I have left to do because at least three times I thought I needed to go on Quora again since I filled it out on Monday instead of Wednesday. 

Minigoal wise things went well. I recorded two short stories and have edited one so far. (Hopefully another by the end of the day today, we'll see.) I didn't revise the post but I did find two new locations to post in. We'll see how that goes. Nothing new coming to me about the plot for the new SS. Luckily it isn't a rush, but not having a clue at all is kinda annoying. 

MINIGOALS
Record 1 SS. Stretch goal for 2. (Only four full stories left, they're all long.) 

Edit 1 SS. Stretch goal for 2.

1 Activism activity.

Finalize 1 workshop. Send out two more emails to schedule more. 

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AFTER ACTION REVIEW
Took Monday off of work to finish recovering from my weekend cold. It was definitely helpful/needed since I finally got rid of the deep cough. It also meant that I specifically choose to not exercise on Monday to help with the recovery. Instead I did some gaming and reading and some of my milder computer tasks. It worked out well since that meant that I had more time today to focus on the more important stuff. 

The key to this format is listening to my body and flexibility in the schedule. Having the due dates at all just keeps them on the calendar, making sure they get rescheduled when they don't get done. Which is to say that it's all going well!

Happily completed two of my bigger projects! 

The planned to be completed this week project was finishing going through my backlog of SS, reading them fresh, and putting together an editing plan for each. The idea is that I'll know what the stories are like currently, instead of the rose tinted version from in my head. I'll also know what they need to get fixed. Editing is a skill that I honed a lot in the last two years so applying it to older works just makes sense. This is also a basic way of keeping an inventory in my head of what SS can be sent out. The next steps are to find places to send one of these stories, and then with a deadline/motivation, do the edits and send it out. I'm excited to finish this fairly major step, and without any angst/anxiety. 

The other was my upcycling project, which I was worried about completing on time last week. Well, I decided that since I was still missing a number of the parts needed for previously planned projects I should look into a new one. I have a handful of old picture frames that I'm looking to do something with. (That something might end up being putting photos in them.) But some of them aren't my style anyways. So I started to look up options and found one that I already had all of the supplies for! Simple yet effective, I emptied a frame then staple gunned some screen to the back, and bam! Earring holder! I love projects like this, both useful and beautiful! 

All basic minigoals completed, no stretch goals done since I'm still recovering from the cold and my energy/brain levels are low. I did some active thinking about the new SS, but nothing that resembles a plot yet. 

MINIGOALS - In priority order
Record 1 SS. Stretch goal for more. 

Edit 1 SS. Stretch goal for all recorded.

Revise post and post about artist in new location.

1 wiki update. Stretch goal for more. 

1 activism activity. No stretch. 

Continue thinking about plot/outline for new SS.