Hello Meetup-ers! Hope your September has treated you well. With the slow start of school and adjusting to a new schedule, this past month has been challenging time-wise.
I have been drawing more and more, which is great. Now I need to see the drawings through to a completed piece and list in my stores. I have quite a few designs that live on my PC that I need to set free! (And yes, I’m a PC, don’t judge.)
I did create Office Hours (you can read the post here) and it’s been great to define these for myself and my family. Still working out a few kinks, like fitting in exercise in my non-office hours, but it feels like a big accomplishment.
Another big one… blogging every day, Monday to Friday, on both the card and dog blogs. Whew! I didn’t really mind the schedule until this last week of the month. I think I was energized by all the newness of the posts at the beginning of the month. For October, I will go back to five days a week between the two blogs and analyze September numbers to see if blogging daily on both is worth it.
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With a nod to Paper Mango’s, Melanie, I will be handwriting my goals this month.
October is going to be a month of making and listing, over and over again. My father-in-law is getting married in December and asked me to do the wedding suite for him. That’s the first priority, but I also need to finish the grocery notepads I’ve been working on for awhile and finish the prototype of my home product. Then the holiday prep, which includes Craftland (oh boy!) and I must stop neglecting the Dog Paper. I have some cute dog drawings that I’m pairing with patterns for a new line of paper goods, but it’s another design stuck inside my laptop.
I’m excited about my personal goals and I think they can all be met. I failed miserably with my yoga goal last month, but I am ready to commit to it this month. I’m also running again and have took up the challenge to run 50 miles in October from one of my favorite people on the interwebs, Cathy Zielske. And with the change in season, I can start getting up at 5am again.
Okay, that’s my long-winded goal post for the month. Looking forward to reading yours!
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Love the handwritten goals. So inspiring. It makes them more real. You completely rocked September. I hope you share how the numbers look. You are smart to add your personal goals into the mix. As Linda mentioned today, we are all looking for balance. A healthy mind and body is imperative to balance and will give you the energy to conquer your goals. I’m looking forward to seeing the final wedding invitations. You’re FIL is a lucky man!
Wow you are sure moving forward. What a cool goal of blogging daily and for two blogs, woo hoo to you! Good luck getting the Yoga thing going. It feels so good…yet it is hard to just stop,sit down and do it. But we should. Have a happy September!
I’m loving the handwritten goals – so cool! Good luck getting ready for Craftland…the making a plan to do a little at a time is great…I’m realizing that I let these big shows sort of loom over me and actually kind of get in the way of other projects…sigh…
I’m a PC too, AND a graphic designer! 😀
Congrats on massive amounts of blogging and getting things done 🙂 Good luck in October.. and you just reminded me that I need to be trying to do Yoga and/or Wii fit daily again! .. thanks.. hehe
Great stuff Cyn, but, uhm, 5am, I don’t think I’ve seen 5am since the last time I had to make an early flight, now I feel SO lazy! But morning yoga! and run 50 miles! and all your biz stuff! Please share how your sept #s look after you analyse, I think it would be really helpful for everyone to see. Hope you have a really wonderful October!
I’m a PC as well – also a graphic designer!
I have been wanting to meet my gym and yoga goals for 2 months now but they definitely seem to be getting the shaft when my time is tight. Cheers to you for running 50 miles in October and hope we are both able to follow through on yoga! It’s so worth it.
Lots of luck on your biz goals for October and I love that you said your projects are stuck inside your laptop – haha. I feel that way sometimes also. Let’s set them free!