Conquering the Creative Work-Life Balance: Goal-Setting Step 5 (Your Real-Life Application of the Steps)

This new schedule with the once-a-week posts will definitely take some getting used to -- on my part, anyway. It's become necessary to do so as my writing services side of Degrees of Maternity is taking off and the same 24 hours in a day remains as it did before I started writing for others. … Continue reading Conquering the Creative Work-Life Balance: Goal-Setting Step 5 (Your Real-Life Application of the Steps)

Conquering the Creative Work-Life Balance: Goal-Setting Step 3 (SMART Goals)

This continuation of the Goal-Setting Process for work-life balance has been a long time coming. I know. But, we're going to press on today and make some more progress in our goal planning. Step #3 of the process is what's on the agenda, and I have some more definition to add to our goal finessing. … Continue reading Conquering the Creative Work-Life Balance: Goal-Setting Step 3 (SMART Goals)

Conquering the Creative Work-Life Balance: Simplify Your Goal Setting

One of the things I've wanted to do with this whole "Conquering the Creative Work-Life Balance" series is to balance out all the life processes in order to simplify the motions we go through in life. My goal is to make living life less complicated and convoluted and complex, so that the barriers to accomplishing … Continue reading Conquering the Creative Work-Life Balance: Simplify Your Goal Setting

Conquering the Creative Work-Life Balance: Goal-Setting Steps 1 and 2

How have your creative work-life balance brainstorming sessions been going? Oh, and please don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about. At the time of the distribution of this blog post, I've given you a couple of weeks now to pour out your list of to-dos on your computer (or on as many … Continue reading Conquering the Creative Work-Life Balance: Goal-Setting Steps 1 and 2

Productivity Tuesday: Reblog – 20 Tips for Prioritizing Your Goals

Well, what do you know? It appears that I'm on the reblog kick again and I have a doozie of a replay for you today. In recognition of the fact that I'm currently in the last push to complete some major goals of mine, I thought I'd visit this blog post, which was originally posted … Continue reading Productivity Tuesday: Reblog – 20 Tips for Prioritizing Your Goals

Goal-Setting Process for Writing & More – Step 4: Scheduling

Bet you never thought we'd get here, did you? I can understand why you might have had doubts. After all, it's almost been 4 months ago since I posted step 1 of the Goal-Setting Process. And now, we're finally here at the remaining step, or what I'll refer to as "Step 4: Scheduling". Well, I … Continue reading Goal-Setting Process for Writing & More – Step 4: Scheduling

Goal-Setting Process for Writing & More – Step 3: SMART Goals (Cont.)

For those of you who have been following along with the Goal-Setting Process, you know that we're on Step 3, which has everything to do with setting SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely) goals. The assignment from a couple of weeks ago was to take our top 9 basic goals that we identified from our lists … Continue reading Goal-Setting Process for Writing & More – Step 3: SMART Goals (Cont.)