I'm doing 24 things
No progress
3 days ago
this week. I confess I haven’t felt much like reading.
Calissa's Life List
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1. Revise my goals and make them: specific, measurable,realistic and time bound.
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2. get my work out there
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3. write daily
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4. Write 75 000 words in 2009
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5. Sort through all my stories and assess what further action needs to be taken with each one
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6. Reduce the teetering heights of Mt TBR
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7. write a review on every book I read
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8. respect my body
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9. Start a Buddy Check 12 team here on 43things, in support of Breast Cancer Awareness. Do your self-exam the 12th of every month.
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10. walk to Rivendell
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11. Enable myself
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12. Make the 14th of every month the day I backup my computer
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13. Live in gratitude & be happy even if the rest of the things on this list never happen
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14. Honour my inner Goddess
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15. Celebrate
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16. Finish redoing my collage wall
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17. Spend more time looking at the sky
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18. Finish the cross-stitch I'm making as a wedding gift
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19. slow down
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20. Eat slower, breathe more, chew more, taste & enjoy my food
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21. change the world, twenty minutes at a time
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22. write thank you cards
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23. write more handwritten, no-reason notes
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24. Reinstate the Artist Date
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How I did it
It made me
fulfilled 
How I did it: This goal has been all about writing for me. It has not been about always making sure I sit down and write every day--although that has been part of it, there are other goals for that. This has been more about what I write.I went to a talk given by author Garth Nix a while back. He discussed how he often gets asked what writers should write and how to predict the market. His response was that a writer should write what they love and not w… Read how I did it…
It made me
accomplished
How I did it: Before beginning a session of writing on computer (or transcribing a session of writing I did by hand) I took note of the word count of the document. I then subtracted that number from the total I ended up with at the end of the session. I used graphs to chart my progress by week, month and year. This allowed me to see the trends that formed across time and helped me to set realistic goals for my writing. Read how I did it…
Recent entries
June and Week 26, 2009
3 days ago
Weekly total: 2 284
Monthly total: 5 619
Yearly total: 44 900
I confess that I’m not entirely pleased. June has been the first month I’ve missed meeting my monthly target and by almost 3000 words too. Still, progress has been steady.
I’ve had a few doubts lately about whether this is the right goal for me. Still thinking about it.
Still in the Marshes.
3 days ago
I’m about 4 miles away from making camp on Day 11. Progress has been slow but steady.
