Monthly Archives: June 2010

June Goals Update

As I was afraid might happen, as things got crazy-busy at work this spring I lost track of my goals and neglected my monthly check-isn. I also focused so intently on fishing The Pilates Lifestyle that I forgot about other writing projects all together, save for a few one-off pieces I did here and there.

Well, I’m back now, and sitting down with the goals. I was excited to find out how many I had achieved, but shocked to realize that I had much higher hopes for getting my clothing line off the ground than I have realized.

Now I’m in a quandary: what do I do?

    I have plenty to do to get my easy stores going: i have one up but have yet to make a sale. I could definitely do with spending some time focusing on getting that off the ground.
    I could re-dedicate myself to writing a few query letters each month (i think 10 is too many) to try to get some regular, paying writing gigs.
    I need to decide what my next writing “project” is and get started on it.
    I could focus my weekly time (yes, I get one afternoon/evening of alone time each week. I’m lucky, I know. I call it sanity time.) on really putting some more effort into getting this clothing line off the ground.

How do I decide? Each of these things is very important to me. However, 2 of the four require a monitory investment that I’m not sure how to come up with. I would love to get the clothing line going- if nothing else so I could have better clothes to work out in. But I don’t have the faintest idea where to start, and that’s paralyzing!

I do know that I need to revise some of my deadlines, and, in turn, some of my expectations of myself. While I would like to think I can put as much effort into all of these dreams as I would a full time job, the reality is that my actual full time job, along with my part time job and my family, take up a lot of energy. I had thought that I got further along postpartum I would have more energy, and I do, but I also have fewer waking hours that the kids aren’t awake. They are too young right now to fully focus on anything else if they are around, so while I can get little things done here and there, I can’t do “projects” except during my Sanity time.

What goals are you currently working towards? Are you at a crossroads? How do you decide where to go next?

They don’t ’em like they used to!


My parents got this blender when they got married 32 years ago. It still works. When I first moved to Nashville I went through 4 blenders in 3 years. They just don’t make the same high-quality kitchen appliances these days I guess. A few years ago I did bite the bullet and buy this one (same brand as Mom & Dads) and it’s still working. Let’s see if it lasts for 30+ years!