Finally feeling well enough to go back to work tomorrow, so Yay for feeling better. Not perfectly healthy, just well enough that I can muddle through the last 8 days of work I have before the end of the year. Scary thought, but since it's the end of the year, there really isn't a whole lot that I can do about it now anyway, so I'm trying really hard not to dwell about it. I'm figuring out a game plan for making the most of my time when I'm not working so that I can get things moving forwards with other aspects of my career. I know that I really need to be working on my query letter, but right now, creating a bubble map for my next power 90 goal is making me far happier and isn't nearly as taxing on the brain as it is trying to write a letter.
What's nice that I can see that I can actually make this happen, but it's going to require me to do a lot of prep work, which isn't hard, it's the leap of faith afterwards that is scary. It helps that I know what I'm doing next because momentum is key and in spite of being sick, I do have a lot of things that I'm looking forward to accomplishing next year. The hardest part for me is going to be staying focused and not wandering off on some random tangent. That is a pattern of failure that I don't want to repeat. Of course, my next goal has several parts, but this time they are for the same project and not different ones. That's been the problem that I've been running up against. I just haven't been in the right headspace to tackle the content and outlines for the project formerly known as Shadowchaser.
There are so many changes to it, that it really just makes sense to take out that ring completely and move it all to the next goal. For the rest of the year, I'm just going to focus on getting JAL prepped and ready to go out at the beginning of the year. That means proofreading, content checks, maybe if I'm lucky, I'll get it read outloud so I can hear how it sounds. I'm making a list of people that I know in the business and I'm going to ask them to pass it on and finally I'm going to working on the query letter emails to send out. I want to have them all ready to go out right after the holidays. Sending them out before the holidays is just an exercise in futility. Since I have a lot of those in my life already, I want to minimize those as much as possible.
It's amazing how many ideas I get in the shower and today was no different. I mapped out my goals for the next year and they are all entirely doable, as long as I stay focused, which seems so hard. I just wish that I could download all of the plans, information, goals and other content directly from my brain to a hard drive. It would make things so much cleaner. If I ever hear about that kind of human / computer interface, I might just invest.
For now, I'm just going to close and go to bed. I'm exhausted and the whole sleeping thing hasn't been going well the last few days. Falling asleep while writing your blog is never a good sign either.
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