Task it Tuesday - April 9

Originally created by The Geeky Blogger, Task It Tuesday is a weekly meme to help you--and me--get things done. The challenge is to post a task or list of tasks you want to complete before next Tuesday. These tasks can help you with your blogging life, reading life, personal or professional life.

We have come back around to Tuesday again. It was a good week and I managed a few things on my list. Everything feels a bit off, though, because we haven't found a new church. Sunday used to be my favorite day of the week, but now nothing seems right. I keep praying for guidance. I'm sure it will come when the time is right.

So, what did I accomplish last week?

• Stayed ahead of schedule with reading the Bible
• Had a great coaching call on Thursday that left me with some new ideas
• Finished Chapter 21 of Amelia's Mission and presented it to my writing group yesterday

The tasks I didn't get to will go back on the list for this week. Here is what the list looks like:

• Daily Bible reading 
• Stick to my 5-5-5-5 plan for reaching out to more people: 5 calls, 5 texts, 5 emails and 5 handwritten notes every day 
• Time block my calendar 
• Send out Spring cleaning letter
• Find two agents for Clever Tom
• Write query letter for Clever Tom
• Set up ballet barre in bonus room
• Set out bag of donations for Wednesday
• Schedule appointments

That's it for me. What are some tasks you're looking to accomplish this week?

Task it Tuesday - April 2

Originally created by The Geeky Blogger, Task It Tuesday is a weekly meme to help you--and me--get things done. The challenge is to post a task or list of tasks you want to complete before next Tuesday. These tasks can help you with your blogging life, reading life, personal or professional life.

I was determined not to miss Task It Tuesday two weeks in a row. Even though it is late in coming, it is done.

The last couple of weeks have gone to hell in a handbasket. Leaving the church has left me unsettled. It was the right thing to do--especially in light of what I'm hearing is going on there now--but I feel like I have no home. I'm just so sad to see the church I have loved for over two decades go in the direction it is. We have gone to another church closer to us, but it's not the same and not even close to what I loved about our old church. This weekend we will miss service because the Lil' Diva and I are spending Sunday touring colleges. Maybe that will give me a new perspective.

Work has been ridiculous--listings coming, which is good--so that's why I haven't been blogging as much. I made a bit of time for writing last week, so I am happy about that.

Here is what my list looks like:

• Daily Bible reading - Ahead of schedule
• Stick to my 5-5-5-5 plan for reaching out to more people: 5 calls, 5 texts, 5 emails and 5 handwritten notes every day - Haven't tracked this in the last two weeks
• Time block my calendar - Haven't done this in the last two weeks
• Coaching call on Thursday
• Finish Chapter 21 of Amelia's Mission
• Find two agents for Clever Tom 
• Write query letter for Clever Tom

What's on your list this week?

Task It Tuesday - Mar 19

Originally created by The Geeky Blogger, Task It Tuesday is a weekly meme to help you--and me--get things done. The challenge is to post a task or list of tasks you want to complete before next Tuesday. These tasks can help you with your blogging life, reading life, personal or professional life.

Welcome back to Tuesday. Things are looking a bit brighter than they were yesterday. I'm sure with each passing day that tough decision I made this weekend will get easier. Knowing it was coming distracted me all week, so I didn't accomplish as much as I should. Here's what was on my list for last week:

• Daily Bible reading  - DONE
• Stick to my 5-5-5-5 plan for reaching out to more people: 5 calls, 5 texts, 5 emails and 5 handwritten notes every day - Did a lot of this, but didn't put it in my tracker
• Exercise Saturday - Didn't happen, but need to find a way to make it happen
• Draft query letter for Clever Tom  - Ended up focusing on other writing. 
• Participate in the Flourish Writers Conference  - Not as much as I wanted, but I have the all access pass to watch the videos afterwards (need to add making time for this on my list)
• Clean my office -  Shaping up nicely. All the boxes of books have been hauled out. I've created a pile of books to give to the library for their annual book sale coming up. Working on my closet.

Now to think about what should be on the list for this week.

• Daily Bible reading  On track
• Stick to my 5-5-5-5 plan for reaching out to more people: 5 calls, 5 texts, 5 emails and 5 handwritten notes every day. 
• Time block my calendar 
• Exercise Saturday
• Read The Walker on the Cape
• Clean office closet
• Schedule haircut and color DONE

Task It Tuesday - Mar 5

Originally created by The Geeky Blogger, Task It Tuesday is a weekly meme to help you--and me--get things done. The challenge is to post a task or list of tasks you want to complete before next Tuesday. These tasks can help you with your blogging life, reading life, personal or professional life.

Welcome to Tuesday. I'm actually scheduling this ahead of time as I prepare to sit and listen to some previously recorded panels from the Women in Publishing Summit. I made myself a promise this year that I would do more writing. I set my goals in January, but I didn't talk about or share this one; mainly because I knew I had aggressive real estate goals and still wanted a life. While I don't beat myself up over goals I don't meet, they do niggle me a bit. I'm happy to say that I'm making more progress than expected.

Switching gears, let's talk about last week's to-do list.

• Daily Bible reading DONE
• Stick to my 5-5-5-5 plan for reaching out to more people: 5 calls, 5 texts, 5 emails and 5 handwritten notes every day. Made good progress, but still not every day
• Time block my calendar   I went back and recreated this all on Saturday. Not supposed to be the way that works.
• Exercise Friday and Saturday  Ha! Ha! Ha!
• Create a marketing proposal.  Almost done. This isn't something urgent because they aren't ready yet.
• Find an agent to which to submit Clever Tom  Collected names and researching.
• Participate in #FaithPitch DONE

Not a bad week overall. Here is what this week looks like:

• Daily Bible reading On track
• Stick to my 5-5-5-5 plan for reaching out to more people: 5 calls, 5 texts, 5 emails and 5 handwritten notes every day. Day behind
• Time block my calendar DONE
• Exercise Monday and Saturday Missed Monday
• Find an agent to which to submit Clever Tom
• Participate in Women in Publishing Summit
• Finish reading The Morning Mind

Are you putting together a to-do list this week? What does your week look like?

Task it Tuesday - Feb 26

Originally created by The Geeky Blogger, Task It Tuesday is a weekly meme to help you--and me--get things done. The challenge is to post a task or list of tasks you want to complete before next Tuesday. These tasks can help you with your blogging life, reading life, personal or professional life.

Just for the record: staying on top of things is tough. You put a plan together and, inevitably, something unexpected creeps in.  Sometimes you just need to roll with the punches and celebrate every little success. Mine would look like this:

1. Sticking to daily Bible reading 
2. Improving how many contacts I make with the 5-5-5-5 plan.
3. Time blocking my calendar most weeks.
4. Began researching agents for Clever Tom.

This week many of the same tasks are on the list:

• Daily Bible reading
• Stick to my 5-5-5-5 plan for reaching out to more people: 5 calls, 5 texts, 5 emails and 5 handwritten notes every day. 
• Time block my calendar
• Exercise Friday and Saturday
• Create a marketing proposal.
• Find an agent to which to submit Clever Tom 
• Participate in #FaithPitch

Not sure if I will accomplish it all, but I'll give it a good shot.

What does your week look like?

Task It Tuesday - Feb 19

Originally created by The Geeky Blogger, Task It Tuesday is a weekly meme to help you--and me--get things done. The challenge is to post a task or list of tasks you want to complete before next Tuesday. These tasks can help you with your blogging life, reading life, personal or professional life.

My, oh my, it has been a busy little place around here. We have decided to do some redecorating and that means more cleaning in the middle of working. Oh, well, it  must be done.

Here is what this week's to-do list looks like:

• Daily Bible reading
• Stick to my 5-5-5-5 plan for reaching out to more people: 5 calls, 5 texts, 5 emails and 5 handwritten notes every day. This is so hard, but it needs to be done.
• Time block my calendar
• Exercise Thursday and Friday
• Update CRM - slated for Wednesday (In progress)
• Create a marketing proposal.
• Find an agent to which to submit Clever Tom 

What does your to-do list look like this week?

Task It Tuesday

Originally created by The Geeky Blogger, Task It Tuesday is a weekly meme to help you--and me--get things done. The challenge is to post a task or list of tasks you want to complete before next Tuesday. These tasks can help you with your blogging life, reading life, personal or professional life.

Lost almost a whole day yesterday, so this week is going to be kind of busy--especially with the impending snow. Both kids will probably end up with early dismissal and who knows if we will have school on Wednesday. I'm hoping we go for the two-hour delay, but it depends on when the snow and lovely ice stop.

As for my to-do list, I haven't had time to dig into my planner, so this is a guess.

• Daily Bible reading 
• Stick to my 5-5-5-5 plan for reaching out to more people: 5 calls, 5 texts, 5 emails and 5 handwritten notes every day. This is so hard, but it needs to be done.
• Time block my calendar 
• Exercise Wednesday and Friday
• Update CRM - slated for Wednesday (I hope I get it done this week. I have a mailing I want to get out at the beginning of March.)
• Create a marketing proposal. 
• Help the Lil' Diva clean out her room to get ready for her new bedroom set.

What does your to-do list look like this week? Anything you especially want to tackle?

Task It Tuesday - Jan 29

Originally created by The Geeky Blogger, Task It Tuesday is a weekly meme to help you--and me--get things done. The challenge is to post a task or list of tasks you want to complete before next Tuesday. These tasks can help you with your blogging life, reading life, personal or professional life.

My, oh, my. The time, she does fly. Hope you're having a great week. It's about 1:30 on Tuesday morning. I just finished finalizing my 2019 business plan notes for a meeting with my manager tomorrow.

I'm excited to say that my planner is shaping up nicely.

I don't always remember to bring it to church, but our pastor has podcasts of his sermons, so I can catch up on my weekly notes. Since I don't draw much, I usually copy a Bible verse and then add a picture. 

Right now, I have this and a calendar going. I'm taking my calendar and inputting dates into Outlook, which feeds right into my iPhone. That is making my life easier, but it does take time.

Here is what my to-do list from last week looked like:

• Daily Bible reading DONE
• Exercise - Tuesday and Saturday  Ha, ha, ha...
• Time block this week's calendar. DONE
• Stick to my 5-5-5-5 plan for reaching out to more people: 5 calls, 5 texts, 5 emails and 5 handwritten notes every day. Work in progress. I get more done each week, except the handwritten notes. My writing is awful and my tendinitis doesn't cooperate. I'm not giving up.  
• Update my CRM. High priority Still not done. Slaps palm to forehead.

I already have my list together in my planner, so this week's list will be easy to compile:

• Daily Bible reading Ahead of schedule
• Stick to my 5-5-5-5 plan for reaching out to more people: 5 calls, 5 texts, 5 emails and 5 handwritten notes every day. 
• Time block my calendar DONE
• Create a survey for one of my committees DONE
• Exercise Friday and Saturday
• Update CRM - slated for Wednesday

That's it for me this week. What is on your to-do list? Is there anything I can help motivate you to get done?

Task It Tuesday - Jan 22

Originally created by The Geeky Blogger, Task It Tuesday is a weekly meme to help you--and me--get things done. The challenge is to post a task or list of tasks you want to complete before next Tuesday. These tasks can help you with your blogging life, reading life, personal or professional life.

How does time fly so quickly? Was it the snow or the blood moon? Maybe I'm just getting old.

I have to admit that last week wasn't a very impressive show of sticking to the to-do list. I'm bummed about my neighbor passing away and her funeral was coming up. My head wasn't where it needed to be. Why has this affected me so? Well, two reasons:

1. She was always so wonderful to me and reached out more than once to say, "Let's go for a walk." My busy little self never did it. There was always a good reason to put it off. Now, it's too late. I wasn't a good friend. 
2. It forces my husband and I to face mortality. She was our age. Her kids are around my girls' ages. She was active and living a healthy lifestyle. One day here. One day gone. It really makes you think about what you should be doing differently.

Last week's list looked like this:

• Daily Bible reading - DONE
• Exercise - Going to be a challenge this week. Probably Thurs and Fri. - I'll pretend not to see this.
• Time block this week's calendar. Should be done, but Sunday I wasn't home. - Never did it.
• Stick to my 5-5-5-5 plan for reaching out to more people: 5 calls, 5 texts, 5 emails and 5 handwritten notes every day. - Better than the previous week, but not what it should be.
• Update my CRM. - Made a bit of progress, but need to focus on this.
• Clean my office closet. - Pushing this off for now. It will get done, but other things are more important right now.
• Take down Christmas decorations. Winter ones stay up, but trees, nativities, and Santas get packed up. - One more tree to go.

Here is the list for this week:

• Daily Bible reading Ahead of schedule
• Exercise - Today and Saturday
• Time block this week's calendar. Mostly done
• Stick to my 5-5-5-5 plan for reaching out to more people: 5 calls, 5 texts, 5 emails and 5 handwritten notes every day. Did some yesterday
• Update my CRM. High priority

Is there anything you want to accomplish this week? I pray you're successful.