It’s important to have useful goals that you can measure, but more important that help you focus your work. It’s doubly important to have goals when you work for yourself and are trying to start your own business! Getting Punderthings off the ground can go in so many ways, and focus is important.
November is National Novel Writing Month – which is a great motivator, although I’m no novelist myself. My stories are either short and goofy, possibly with some science fiction thrown in – or are about open source projects, people, and brands, and those are more about teaching. So instead of attempting a novel, I’ll be blogging or otherwise writing essays each day this month.
I was thinking that writing is (often) more useful than reading. Reading something can be an escape, can be inspirational, or can teach you something. But when you write something (and share it, of course) then not only can you learn something, but others might be able to learn (or be entertained, or inspired) along the way. I often forget how important sharing our stories and organizing thoughts into more than 140 characters can be.
To keep myself motivated, I’m planning to write some sort of content every day in November – mostly on open source topics either here or at Choose A Foundation, The Apache Way, or some other websites I run, but some topics will be about local life.
I hope to improve on my goals as well – mostly by writing and publishing something earlier in the day than bedtime! See you tomorrow morning on the internet!
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. ― Marie Curie