Friday 1 April 2016

A is for Activate

Well, Hello April!
Hello my somewhat crazy indea of participating in both this A to Z challenge and Camp NaNoWriMo!

Serioulsy, what was I thinking?

Camp NaNo will solve itself, it usually does, and I never set a very high wordcount for that - but this? Hmm.

Today's goal is to Activate. This blog needs to get active, I need to get active on so many levels. As stated in my very first post I have so much I want to do, and for that I need to activate myself. At least, that's what I've always thought. Do as much as possible in as little time as possible. But where did that land me?

Stressed out, that's what. And I sure didn't get as much done as I wanted, which led to more stress as I tried to not only get ahead with new projects but also needed to catch up with those I hadn't finished.
This is the start of the new Active me. The one who will teach herself to plan ahead, to focus on a few things at a time, the one who will not berate herself for not getting as much done as she believes others do.

This month of April has the goals of....
  • Writing: Finish A2Z and Camp NaNo
  • Health: Start over on 5:2 and find a workout timeplan that works
  • Job: See the positive in every child and plan forward to summer daycamp.
  • Faith: Set aside 10 minutes each day for personal growth (Bible reading, prayer, whatever). 
Sounds doable goals? Reasonably achievable? (Except for the writing stuff. That's still crazy.)

16 comments:

  1. I am having a similar month, not writing my book, but promoting it as it launches in 10 days. I know that stress of that plus the AtoZ. At least you are off to a good start.

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    1. Thanks!
      I've not yet come as far as trying to publish anything. Promotion has to be more stressful than Camp.

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  2. Don't worry, you are not the only person tackling both A2Z and Camp in the same month! Every year I think I'm crazy and say I shouldn't do it, but every year I end up doing both and having a totally crazy April.
    Don't worry, it's usually fun and worth it. Good luck!
    ~Princess of Dragons

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    1. *smiles* Thank you!
      You mean there's people doing it more than once? Yep, that's officially crazy...

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  3. My first thought when I signed up for this was "Don't they know about Camp and the Poetry Challenge?" But I'm counting all the words. All of them! Good luck on all your goals. I'm rooting for you. :)

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    1. Maybe they know and they're just eeevil.... *grins*
      I'll count all the words too.

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  5. I sure need to learn from your post as I find I'm doing the same thing. Best of luck to you for your crazy month of April.
    @ScarlettBraden from
    Frankly Scarlett

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  6. ... and I was considering doing like you and introduce one character a day. Not this year, though.
    It's hard to stop ourselves from taking on too much, but we can. I know it.

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  7. Wow that's an huge commitment for April. What's a 5:2? I'm doing a post on bodyweight exercises that might interest you tomorrow.
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  8. 5:2 is a fasting diet (or way of living, really), meaning that 2 non-consecutie days of the week you limit your calorie intake to 500, the other 5 you eat normally but healthy.
    (https://thefastdiet.co.uk/)
    Thanks for stopping by! I'll check out that post tomorrow :)

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  9. Yes of course - How I didn't put two and two together when you wrote it under health...I will blame it on blog fatigue (is that possible on day A) - :D i love that you can still have 500 calories...

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    1. :D
      Blog fatigue I know nothing about (but I know more about blog-ingoring - the reason my blogs haven't continued before)
      500 calories, yes. Or strictly speaking you should stay on 1/4 of what you normally need. For a short woman like me that's closer to 400....

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  10. Usually I end up doing Camp NaNoWriMo as the book I am writing from my A to Z Challenge posts. That way I still win because I know how many words I'm writing for my blog posts, and I'm also motivated to write every day!

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    1. Haven't even thought about stuffing the two together - of course I could do that :)
      At least if my wordcount dips along the way. Thanks for stopping by!

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