I’m really good at focusing on one thing to the exclusion of all else. Usually I compromise (a little) and focus on one thing to the exclusion of most everything else. However, this isn’t the best way to get ahead or stay balanced. It’s no good having one area of your life perfect and the rest in ruins. It’s not even any good having a few ideal areas, you’ve got to be making progress on all of them. Yes, it’s tough, but it’s worth it.

Or so I’m reliably informed… :)

How I’m doing with areas of my life

I’ve awarded each area some stars out of 5 to indicate how I’m doing with it.

Entrepreneurship & blogging

4 stars

Exceedingly happy with this area! I’ve been blogging professionally for four months now. Wow, what an achievement! I’ve heard it said that six months of blogging is the first major milestone - if you can keep going after six months and continue consistently for a year, I think that says something important about your commitment to professional blogging.

I’m maintaining a regular schedule at Make More Mistakes (every other Tuesday) and a regular & frequent schedule at All Things Bright (every other today).

I’m working on Ethical Beads (dotORG & dotCOM), which is my next BIG project. I’m very excited about it; lots of potential there.

So far, my overall main challenge with entrepreneurial blogging is writing for a minimum of an hour each day. I tend to spend hours researching instead, but I need to discipline myself to do both. The negative consequences of not doing this include manic writing frenzies when posts are due. I have most of the information in front of me, but I have to get it ready & weave it all together with some creativity & original content. It makes blogging more stressful doing it that way.

In addition, I need to make as much headway as I can with Ethical Beads before I go back to university. I want to have all the systems in place and a decent variety of excellent quality links in order to pique interest & encourage interaction. My ideal set-up would be one whereby users submit links themselves, I moderate where necessary and everything goes up very quickly and correctly, with lots of viral publicity. I need to make that happen.

Recreation

3 stars

It’s been hard to relax and I’m still working long days. However, I have made space to see quite a lot of DVDs, including new films (Snakes on a Plane, Volver), recent classics (Pulp Fiction, Signs, Unbreakable) and the hilarious adult cartoon series, Futurama. I’ve caught up with a couple of friends recently, which has been great.

Sites - Change Things Now! & Refresh London

2 stars

My enthusiasm for these sites is still present, but it’s waning due to lack of contributions & support. With All Things Bright I wholly expect to go it alone (comments are always welcome, of course), but Change Things Now! & Refresh London are social sites and I expected them to be partially community-driven. Never mind, once I’ve made some moe headway with my entrepreneurial blogging (see above), I will delve in to these projects with renewed vigour, inspiring those around me to contribute too.

Change Things Now!

I need to create the London Feminism Calendar with the little information I have and an easy way for users to add events themselves.

Refresh London

I need to install WordPress, put a basic theme in place, contact Ahmed about creating a theme, mail the group with a suggested date, time & place for meeting… Lots to do, but all of it easy.

Healthy eating

0.5 stars

Er, not so much. It’s not that I don’t try, it’s just that… Actually, what am I talking about, it is that I don’t try.

One of my main reasons for not eating healthily is that I hate cooking and healthy fast food is hard to come by. I suppose what I need to do is come up with an easy list of easy, quick, tasty dishes I don’t mind preparing.

Hmm, how will I do that?

Well, my Detox health kick pledge is a good start!

MA

1 star

I’m worried about this one for a few reasons, the most easily tackled one is my lack of reading to date, due to my focusing on entrepreneurship & blogging. Later on, my MA & blogging are going to clash big time, unless I do something to change that. Need to start thinking about that now, the main solution seems to be planning, as usual, again.