Posts Tagged: priority


9
Oct 08

Entrepreneurial Seizures

The Idea Market was fun, and it was good to meet so many of my Twitter friends in person (my pink hair helped, as many of them recognized me before seeing my name tag—and even then it was more like, “Hey, you’re bookchiq!”).

One of the exercises was creating an entrepreneurial board game. My group came up with “Make Lemonade”, with the goal of creating a successful lemonade stand (the de facto entrepreneurial venture, right?). The picture is from another group’s “Squirrels with Coal” game, which cracked me up. They did a great job taking some random props and running with them!

As you can tell from my list below, my priority right now is making progress on some of my own entrepreneurial ventures. And even though it’s not in the list for today, my Twitter backgrounds project is moving forward, too; I’m just waiting on some design work.

Most Important Tasks

  • Upgrade a theme for a client
  • Add three lessons to the blog training course
  • Write front-page copy for the blog training course

The reward

Casting Crowns‘ newly released Christmas album (from iTunes). Well, assuming the preview makes it sound good. :)

P.S. Why is “seizures” spelled “e-i” and not “i-e”? Didn’t they get the “i before e” memo?! And it’s sure not “sounded as ay as in neighbor and weigh”! Hmm. Maybe I need to get out more.


14
Apr 08

Monday Motivation: Reduce Project Load

I’m hoping against hope that it’s not going to be “one of those days.” It started out well, considering I’ve already gotten through most of the 150 emails (!) that came in over the weekend and it’s not even 8am yet, but then I wandered into the office (I’d been working on my laptop) and found that my Mac was locked up.

It didn’t respond to any of the happy “kill program” commands, so I finally hard-rebooted it and now it’s not coming back. I’m no Mac guru, but I’ve tried a whole bunch of remedies found via Google, and no luck yet. Computers are finicky beasts, though, so I’m hopeful that something will work. I’m going to call my local Apple-friendly computer store when they open and see what they suggest.

In the meantime, I’m incredibly glad I installed FolderShare last week, so most everything is backed up on my laptop (where I’m typing now) as well as my JungleDisk. If I need to work on my laptop, I can, it’s just not as nice for coding.

My big priority for this week (other than getting the misbehaving Mac working) is to finish up some outstanding projects that are really stressing me out. I have new projects lined up for next week and am going to have a nervous breakdown if I have to do them all at once, so the obvious answer is to finish up the current ones first.

One of the projects is a client’s web application and the other is the ebook.

For today…

I’m going to focus on the client project and make as much progress as I can there. I have about seven other obligations for the day, but this is going to be my core task.

For the week…

I’m going to keep working on the client project, and do the following for my ebook:

  • Decide on a final name
  • Get a cover and site designed (starting the process today)
  • Set up sales and affiliate program
  • Format the book
  • Do an interview to promote the book

Want to jump in yourself? Just leave a comment saying what you’re going to do today, or post on your own blog and leave a link.