Day 52: A New Plan

Uh-oh. I am now 4 games back, as I skipped writing yesterday. I dearly hope I can make up those four hours sometime soon. 

Perhaps whatever hours I can’t make up by the end of the month should go into a sort of “frozen” make-up hour pool, for me to write extra over the summer, like my frozen personal leave bank at school. 

You have these days, but you cannot use them. You have these hours to make up, but don't worry about them. Don’t let them about take up your brain space now. You can attend to them later when you have some extra time. 

Or perhaps that just sounds like funny math. 

But even if that approach works from now until June, what about next August through November? I won't have time to make up lost hours then.

Perhaps I can bank some extra hours over summer break and even take a personal day next fall to catch up. If I took an entire school day off, I could write during my usual hour from 5.30-6:30, help the girls get ready and off to school, then write from 8:30-11:30 and again from 12:30-3:30. That makes 7 hours in one jam packed, marathon day. 

I am also facing some bottlenecks in terms of production for my blog and other writings. Since I have not counted my transcription and editing hours in my daily hour, I have been hard pressed to find time to do that each week. So, I think I either need to build in that time to my hours, say, 1 hour per week, or schedule it on my weekly calendar. Perhaps, I can edit Wednesday or Thursday night, plus some time over the weekend.

Finally, I am struggling to find time to write some specific content. For example, I want to finish writing my Family Meeting book, which will be a fairly big lift. Maybe I need to give myself a deadline for this as well. And then, I need to devote some serious time to writing it.

Here's an idea: my goal could be to publish—officially launch, with everything that entails, tech stuff, art stuff, ebook stuff, yikes!—by, March 25th, my mom's birthday. And, I could dedicate my Family Meeting Book to my mom as she is at the root of so much of my discipline, routines, procedures and systems thinking. That would actually be kind of cool. 

I can spend the rest of January clearing the deck, finishing anything outstanding, posting entries that have been sitting in my journal and also finishing or attending to some correspondence I have been meaning for so long to write. 

Then, I will spend all of February writing my Family Meeting Book, and for my blog I can post sections of what I wrote that day. 

So, if I am a bit incognito re:my blog in February, my loyal readers will know why. Then, I will spend much of March editing, formatting and wrestling with the technology stuff and getting my book ready for launch.

I think this plan is workable and I am actually excited to implement it!