Happy February! I find it hard to fathom January has flown by, especially in light of the “January was a long year with 437 Mondays” posts I’m seeing across social media. I want more time for more projects, but knowing I only have limited time, maybe I need to limit the number of projects I take on.
Based on what I have underway at the moment, I spent time last week setting reasonable, reachable small goals with an eye toward long term deadlines. Knowing that if I fail to meet a small goal this week, I make it more difficult on myself to meet those deadlines without panic and rush-jobs. So: steps forward. This week, what small steps can you take, or set out as small goals, toward your long term projects? I know this is rudimentary TLQ planning, but things I often forget to do.
And it flows over to our stories, for those who are inclined. What steps forward might your protagonist take to move toward resolution or to make progress toward their goals?
Wishing you a marvelous week, snow if it comes your way, sunshine if you have it, and the chance to embrace what nature offers us.
Daisy
1) Make a point of spending at least an hour a day working on big fancy future talk
2) Finish conference talk
3) Go see Dean in person instead of sending snarky email in response to ongoing course drama
4) Do at least one fun thing that is not scheduled
5) Do not throw anything at anyone and do not smother anyone with a pillow
6) Keep up good work on chosen paper!
Dame Eleanor Hull
Daily stretching, exercise, 8 hours sleep.
Finish and send article.
Finish last doc for annual review; some new administrivia, including talk with chair, memo to GD, rec letter.
Grade one set of short papers; write syllabus (due dates, mainly) for independent study; update online quizzes.
Open and deal with all the stacked-up mail.
Elizabeth Anne Mitchell
Do homework for class.
Start an idea file for rare books articles.
Read the Illumination article ruthlessly for gaps and wordy pieces.
Go to class.
Walk the stacks every 45 minutes.
heu mihi
1. Research: keep reading a lot; touch writing daily; finish revisions to Wonder and send to friend for feedback
2. Daily: sit x5, exercise x5, language x5
3. Service: prep workshop, prep class for church, harass colleagues, apply for conference funding, follow up re. award, letter of rec
4. Travel: email driver again, work on hotels
humming42
1 submit revised conference prospectus
2 complete this week’s work for online writing course
3 write a blog post
4 finish article review
5 finish reading book for review due next week
Good Enough Woman
Work:
1. Get next week's Brit Lit reading done by Sunday.
2. Do most of the prep for next week to clear the way for heavier grading.
3. Find short stories for independent study student. Create first few assignments for her.
4. Research/write for 1 hour.
People:
1. Send at least three cards/letters to people.
2. Have lunch with my mom.
3. Float like mist through all four of my son's 4-H activities this week. Support him.
Wellness:
1. Walk 4x
2. Meditate 4x
3. Skip late-night treat 3x. Fast at least 13 hours 2x.
4. Reschedule appointment that got cancelled.
JaneB
No specific goals set for this week
karen
-Unpack office
-2 x run, 3 x yoga
-300 words daily Tues-Thurs
-get SD card and record something on sound equipment
-put in promotion EoI
Susan
1. 4000 words on Famous Author
2. Keep chasing contributors
3. Read one journal
4. Admin stuff
5. Walk twice (it's finally getting light earlier in the AM, that's helpful!)
6. Get regular sleep
7. Keep up healthy eating and intermittent fasting
Waffles
1. Edit and practice talk
2. Give talk!
3. YRBS paper - edit intro
4. IRIE intro
5. Start qual analyses
6. MST abstracts
7. PTSD paper
8. Submit R&R
[See weeks 2 and 3 for the first two installments.]
ReplyDelete“Well,” I said, “this clarifies things. You mean the Invisible Library. But I’m still not affiliated with it.”
“Sure,” Charlotte said, “I get it, you’re an English professor. But I need some signatures,” and from her floral backpack she produced a thick stack of forms. “You know what the bureaucracy is like.” I could imagine; I enjoy the Invisible Library books, but always suspected that Cogman omitted a lot of the more mundane details like paperwork. “Sign on pages 2 and 3, once each on pages 7-10, twice on 23, once on 25, twice on 30, and then again on 45, 46, and 48.”
It was worse than College Council promotion packets. “I’m sorry, I can’t,” I said. “I’m not the Librarian in Residence, and I don’t like to think what would happen to me if I signed those forms in place of a real Librarian. You’re going to have to go and find the actual Librarian in Residence. Just tell me that I’m persuaded that I had a very vivid dream when I put my head down for a few minutes before leaving my office tonight. In fact, I’m already reasonably persuaded that I’m dreaming, so that ought to work nicely.”
“Um,” Charlotte said.
“It’s not difficult for you, right? Either you came through the standard gate on this world, so you know where it is, and presumably the real Librarian in Residence will be nearby, or else you took a shortcut to get here, and since you’ve not been here long, the temporary door will still be open. Just pop along back to the LRU library, or wherever you came from, return to your Library, and then try again.”
“Well, the thing is . . .” Charlotte said, and then broke off again.
“Probably what happened is that you’ve mistaken this world for another one. You’re looking for the next exit, something like that, or you misread an 8 as a 3 in the classification, or someone’s cursive gamma looked like an alpha in the designation. Something of that sort. It could happen to anyone,” I said reassuringly. “So just go back and check your world classifications, and start over. It will be fine. You haven’t even lost a lot of time here, since you were able to find me before I headed home.” I rose, picking up my bag again. “Thank you for heating my office. If you could just leave the heat set at 72, that would be fantastic.”
“I can’t go back.” Charlotte had turned bright pink. “I mean, I have to find a book first, and I need your help.”
I sat back down and thought about my cats, especially my fluffy cat who likes to explore new places and then freaks himself out and hides. Infusing my voice with all the sweetness and warmth I use to coax him out again, I said, slowly and thoughtfully, “Charlotte, does your mentor, teacher, whatever, know that you’re here? Or is this maybe an independent research project that you started on your own, or with another student?”
More love for this story. And love for Charlotte, who I think really needs your help. :)
DeleteThank you! She's going to get it, whether she wants it or not. :-)
DeleteTopic: I picked up the key, still glowing faint blue, and returned to Virgil.
ReplyDeleteQuickly sinking into the Latin, I jumped when my phone alarm chirped, reminding me to walk through the stacks. I put Virgil back on the shelf, glancing around to say a quiet goodbye to the rest of the vault. I picked up my pencil, and tucked my key, now returned to its regular silver tone, into my pocket.
Securing the vault, I wandered down the long center aisle of the stacks. Whispers from the books surrounded me, enticing me to stop and read. I girded myself against the temptation, concentrating on my breathing and pacing for my health break.
At the far end of the room, I spun to the right, and slid to a stop. The table in the corner, usually covered with blueprints from the urban renewal collection, was no longer there. Even more odd, the blank wall behind it was no longer blank, but sported a small door, about the size of an early twentieth-century dumbwaiter or laundry chute. True, I was new to the building, but I had passed this wall several times a day for the past six weeks, and there was no door there. Also, this building was built in 1999; this floor was always meant to be a secure floor, and the plans would never have allowed this kind of security breach.
Frozen by my confusion, I realized that my key was becoming warm in my pocket. Pinning it flat against the door, I said, “Ovrez.”
Several words washed across the door, disappearing before I could read them, but left an old-fashioned, round lock behind.
Last week’s goals:
Do homework for class. Yes.
Start an idea file for rare books articles. Not yet.
Read the Illumination article ruthlessly for gaps and wordy pieces. Began, but not finished.
Go to class. Yes.
Walk the stacks every 45 minutes. About 40% of the time.
Analysis:
Thank you, Linda, for the timely suggestion to think about breaking large tasks into small ones. I tend to skip that step, despite knowing that it is well worth the time investment. While I have tried to think of how to put that into the narrative, I couldn’t come up with something immediately, but will continue to work on that.
I have revived an old organizational tip of writing three small things to do on a post-it note every day and sticking it on my computer monitor. It worked pretty well this week, although none of them were on my list above, so it’s somewhat invisible.
As I suspected this past week was crazy, and despite my earlier hopes, this coming week is going to continue the trend. I hope that breaking things down will minimize the craziness.
Next week’s goals:
Go to two doctors’ appointments.
Schedule the next doctors’ apppointments.
Keep up with class.
Edit the first three pages of Illumination.
Create outline for Dial.
Break down Illuminated and Dial into constituent parts.
Have a lovely week and float like mist, everyone.
The stories are so delightful...the description and suspense here are a pleasure to read.
DeleteKeep the most important things in front of you is a piece of the process I need to adopt. Making a list and closing the document doesn't keep things top of mind. I have some lovely sticky notes with Frank Lloyd Wright background art and it's time to put them to good use.
Jen Dziura: "If you accomplish 1-3 things per day, 5 days a week, you’ll be moving forward at a much faster pace than the vast majority of humans." https://www.getbullish.com/2012/12/bullish-how-to-make-yourself-do-your-to-do-list/
DeleteI hope eventually we'll find out what those words were.
Last week I got a bit derailed by an R&R. I guess there are worse problems to have, but I'm not first author, and I felt cranky that it derailed my own projects. Interestingly, Mirya Holman's newsletter is focused on derailment today - and it is super useful: https://mailchi.mp/35c32c0f27c5/getting-derailed?e=3b5ceac44e
ReplyDeleteI'm very tired today. I mentioned that my new housemate never leaves our tiny NYC apartment. So on weekends to get some alone time, I've been scheduling things to do. I overscheduled this weekend and got no down time. It was a good (albeit depressing) weekend though as I went to both the tenement and the holocaust museums. I also saw the movies Little Women and Parasite.
OH! An abstract I submitted was accepted - and the conference is in Prague! WOO HOO! Gotta make my budget for the year to make sure I have funds in my research grant to cover that!!!
So, last week I made less progress on my own projects - but decent progress overall.
TO DO WEEK OF JAN 27
1. Edit and practice talk - DONE
2. Give talk! - DONE
3. YRBS paper - edit intro - DONE
4. IRIE intro - WORKED ON!
5. Start qual analyses - NOT DONE
6. MST abstracts - WORKED ON
7. PTSD paper - NOT WORKED ON
8. Submit R&R - DONE. I got a lovely email from the editor of this journal on Friday telling me how much she likes my work. Very sweet.
To do this week:
1. Send response to reviewers to PO
2. YRBS paper - take stock.
3. PTSD paper - get started
4. IRIE intro - refine what is there and figure out what is missing.
5. MST abstracts
6. Scoping review R&R
7. LD's aims
8. PlosONE review
What excellent news: a conference in Prague and great feedback from a journal editor. Both are really exciting.
DeleteThank you again for offering links to Mirya's posts. She is fantastic.
Also, remember that journal editors are in the business of keeping track of good people. So compliments are important recognition.
DeleteMirya's advice on how to get back to work is good. Also the idea that thinking about annoying things/people/situations is letting them steal your time.
DeleteWell that was a miserable week. So much time spent on stuff that shouldn’t have been an issue in the first place… Course drama with many many hours of email attached should be done now (student who failed comprehensively last term proceeded to cause a month of trouble that involved everyone up to and including the Dean). I really resent the fact that if everyone had just listened to me four weeks ago when I first proposed the solution to said drama the student involved would now be a quarter of the way towards passing the course instead of a month behind and facing a very likely possibility of failing again… Of course my proposed solution was exactly the eventual solution we ended up with, funny that, with me being the professional expert on this subject and all… Anyway, it should be over now…
ReplyDeleteMy story heroine doesn’t have anything to contribute right now – she’s fed-up with fighting the “non-existent academic integrity and very low standards” version of the Monster and is going to hunt for a large can of Dame Eleanor’s Bugge Spray and empty the whole thing around her office as a version of Monster Repellant! Thank you DEH!
Planning steps:
This is a great time to be reminded of this very important aspect of TLQ planning – I had far too many moments this past week where I sat around paralyzed because I didn’t know where to start with the big things and didn’t have the brain capacity to break them down in the moment. So for this week I’ve made a list that has small tasks that all contribute to a bigger project, the paper and future big talk that goes with it. I will stick this to my computer and attempt to pick things off it when I have small pockets of time that would otherwise be wasted. In a sense my notebook functions like that, but the highly visible pink post-it with tasks should work better. Maybe put one task per post-it and when it is done have the satisfaction of throwing it in the recycle bin?
Last week’s goals:
1) Make a point of spending at least an hour a day working on big fancy future talk FAILED FOR 5 OUT OF 6 DAYS, SAD!
2) Finish conference talk HALF-DONE BUT MAKING PROGRESS
3) Go see Dean in person instead of sending snarky email in response to ongoing course drama DONE AND WILL STAY DONE I HOPE
4) Do at least one fun thing that is not scheduled DONE! RAN OFF WITH COLLEAGUE FOR UNPLANNED BEER AND WINGS FRIDAY AFTER WORK
5) Do not throw anything at anyone and do not smother anyone with a pillow SUCCESS!!! I’M CALLING THIS ONE A BIG WIN!
6) Continue good work on chosen paper DONE AND CONTINUING
This week’s goals:
1) Finish conference talk (have no choice, conference is on weekend!)
2) Spend at least an hour a day working on big fancy future talk – trying again
3) Do figures for chosen paper
4) Go for at least 2 runs during week
5) Have a blast at regional conference, my favourite of the year! This is in the category of “small achievable goals”…
THis sounds like a successful week, especially finally ending course drama. Also not killing anyone, and running off for beer and wings...
DeleteWhat an annoying week! I will mix up a batch of Extra-Strength Bugge Spray for you.
DeleteHaving small tasks to work on helps a lot. They do add up. But I hear you on the difficulty of breaking down large tasks, sometimes!
I have a large chuck of this week blocked out for a last minute demand of curriculum change demands. I'm imagining it a bit like a James Bond casino sequence - 'Are you in?' 'I raise you a minor' pause. sideways glances. 'I'm going all in - degree core and majors are on the table' - and the mysterious stranger that you don't know if they are a friendly American agent or working with the villain.
ReplyDeleteLast burst of holidays over the weekend, with a beach trip before school goes back. Selfishly, I'll miss the onger days I get with paid full-day childcare. I normally have a late productivity zone around 4.30/5pm and I will miss that.
-Unpack office -yes, at least functionally unpacked
-2 x run, 3 x yoga - 0x run, 1 x kayak, 3 x yoga
-300 words daily Tues-Thurs - write less than 300 words on Tuesday
-get SD card and record something on sound equipment - yes
-put in promotion EoI - yes
This week:
-clear 2 boxes (the ones next to the bookshelf)
-start all course F draft documents
-run x 2, yoga x 3. Wondering if I can fit in a weights session somewhere in my schedule because I realise I need to work on upper body strength, but can't see where.
-order wind sock, book in 4 field recording days.
-write up notes from this mornings library trip
Upper body strength: can you do pushups, or use cans or something at home, for a quick workout that doesn't require you to go anywhere?
DeleteLove the casino sequence!
The Worst Mysterious Strangers are the ones who have been your colleagues for a decade and you're still not quite sure.
DeleteGood prompt for me right now. I need to figure out what I should be doing to keep my research moving forward; I'm starting a new project, so I don't feel ready (at all) to write, but I also don't want to fall into the random-reading abyss. So maybe one of my goals this week should be strategizing my session research.
ReplyDeleteLast week:
1. Research: keep reading a lot; touch writing daily; finish revisions to Wonder and send to friend for feedback
Did finish Wonder revisions and send it to friend. Touched writing most days. Not sure that I read all that much, though. Read some. An article or two.
2. Daily: sit x5, exercise x5, language x5
Yes. Taking this off my TLQ list for the time being, unless/until it starts to languish again.
3. Service: prep workshop, prep class for church, harass colleagues, apply for conference funding, follow up re. award, letter of rec
Workshop - no, working on that now. Church class - yes, week 1 done. Colleagues - harassed. Conference funding and award and letter of rec - done. Staying very on top of servicey things at the moment. AT THE MOMENT.
4. Travel: email driver again, work on hotels
Driver is set. New travel guide arrived so we can get back to work on hotels.
This week:
1. Read/write four days. (Already missed Monday, so....)
2. Prep and give workshop.
3. Do a little brainstorming/strategizing writing in my research notebook. What do I want to accomplish towards my next project in the next few months? What will it look like if I'm successful?
4. Begin compiling bibliography for Kzoo paper.
5. Travel: Apply for remaining visa, book last hotels, figure out trains, give driver hotel info.
I'll just say that finishing one project, even if you think you know where you're going, the random reading abyss (or the dead end paper) are frequent companions. And that after finishing a book almost all of us lose momentum for a while.
DeleteI like the idea of thinking about what "success" in the relatively short term looks like.
DeleteI'm especially interested in thinking about the best ways to begin a project to ensure that you see it through. I know I do myself a disservice by keeping everything electronic, but last year I set up pages for a handful of projects in my bullet journal and didn't write anything there. I think the digital may be my demon.
DeleteMy heroine, because she is who she is, just keeps plugging along. The big drama will come later...
ReplyDeleteGoals from last week:
1. 4000 words on Famous Author --MAYBE 3500?
2. Keep chasing contributors -- YES, ALMOST DONE!!! (27 of 30 set, at least for now)
3. Read one journal YES
4. Admin stuff SOME
5. Walk twice (it's finally getting light earlier in the AM, that's helpful!) I think so... can't remember
6. Get regular sleep YES
7. Keep up healthy eating and intermittent fasting MOSTLY
The writing is weird: I have two chapters going simultaneously, and it seems to be working because I can fill in one when I get stuck on the other, or when I'm waiting for ILL
Otherwise, I'm still adjusting to life on leave, and getting a good rhythm. That's made more difficult by having a bunch of trips which interrupt work flow.
Goals for this week: limited, because I'm down at magic library which was closed yesterday because it lost power with high winds. So I have two days here, then I'm going off with a friend to Joshua Tree for a few days of hiking and enjoyment.
Goals:
1. Writing: 2000 words on famous Author who was famous author
2. Have one or two conversations at library
3. Enjoy the desert
4. Get exercise
5. Have fun
The desert sounds marvelous! I hope you have a great time!
DeleteTag teaming your chapters is great! An inspiring idea too.
DeleteMy heroine, because she is who she is, just keeps plugging along. The big drama will come later...
ReplyDeleteGoals from last week:
1. 4000 words on Famous Author --MAYBE 3500?
2. Keep chasing contributors -- YES, ALMOST DONE!!! (27 of 30 set, at least for now)
3. Read one journal YES
4. Admin stuff SOME
5. Walk twice (it's finally getting light earlier in the AM, that's helpful!) I think so... can't remember
6. Get regular sleep YES
7. Keep up healthy eating and intermittent fasting MOSTLY
The writing is weird: I have two chapters going simultaneously, and it seems to be working because I can fill in one when I get stuck on the other, or when I'm waiting for ILL
Otherwise, I'm still adjusting to life on leave, and getting a good rhythm. That's made more difficult by having a bunch of trips which interrupt work flow.
Goals for this week: limited, because I'm down at magic library which was closed yesterday because it lost power with high winds. So I have two days here, then I'm going off with a friend to Joshua Tree for a few days of hiking and enjoyment.
Goals:
1. Writing: 2000 words on famous Author who was famous author
2. Have one or two conversations at library
3. Enjoy the desert
4. Get exercise
5. Have fun
Hello, late response....
ReplyDeleteLast week was running around starting my teaching on Monday and Tuesday, then the interview and travelling on Wednesday and Thursday (have not heard anything yet), then running a writing retreat Friday and being Very Depressed about the state of the nation (the UK left the EU and entered a "transition period" which is already looking like a shambolic mess of losses, with exit with or without a meaningful deal now inevitable at the end of the year. The upsurge in nastiness is palpable, and I am Sad and embarrassed by my country and afraid). Saturday I made a huge effort and finished the last big chunk of grading, and Sunday I had to go to the office to try and finish up some teaching preparation. Oh, and the air blowers in my car are failing so I am worrying about trying to get that sorted. So between all that, no TLW.
I ended up cancelling classes and working from home Monday and Tuesday this week; I just couldn't (and my voice wasn't great so I said it had gone since "I just can't" is not a legitimate reason for the change of class time form or the many emails one needs to send - actually I was just feeling rotten and had started the random crying thing over the weekend and could not persuade myself to get up properly). It took me five hours of yesterday to cancel and reschedule the two days of classes and deal with the email back log from Wednesday to Friday last week, and I'm not much further on with the prep (I do have all the classes I had and mostly missed this week in order, at least...), but I am feeling a little more human, and can do a short day tomorrow (Wednesday afternoon is class-free for "sporting purposes" at many UK unis, and I'm dropping the car off at the garage in the morning so get a slightly later start than normal). Although I have a lot to prepare for next week too. SIGH
So this week's goals are:
1) take one day COMPLETELY OFF this weekend
2) take the time this weekend to clean the kitchen and do meal prep properly, so I have good food to get me through the following week
3) spend an hour with my NaNo writing, because I enjoy it
4) not worry about other research things this week, just put them onto a list for future reference.
Topic
In a work sense, the main thing I do with TLQ small steps is that whenever I have a longer session with a paper or project, I spend the last 10-15 minutes making a list of where I think it needs to go next and of small tasks - checking references, finding a source, making a figure, writing specific sections or even paragraphs. Then when I have 20-30 minutes in a day to work on TLQ, I don't waste time deciding what to do, I do the next small task on the list. That also means that when I next have a block of time, the list and where next notes help me get back into it quickly - my version of "parking on a downhill slope" to borrow Notorious-Girl's analogy.
My fictional character is thrashing around in the woods still, being eaten by mosquitos and getting rained on alternately, and in the afternoons both at once. Her next steps mostly consist of doing the daily chores of breaking camp, packing up, the Tending of the Feet (very important when hiking), moving on, finding sensible places to refill water and cross streams and take breaks, and not arguing with her companions over trivia, and finding a new place to camp, and making a camp and digging a latrine and making a meal and deciding how many clothes to take off to sleep and fantasising about clean, dry linen instead of damp, stream-rinsed linen. Because that is life on the road, and the existential stuff is actually quite a pleasant distraction, when her brain isn't occupied with hating the mosquitos and being irritated by her companions who are being themselves in various unbearably annoying yet endearing ways. I think at this point one of them has an Annoying Sniff, and of course all their handkerchiefs are also wet.
There's a lot of that sad/embarrassed stuff going around. Taking a few days at home sounds like a good coping strategy.
DeleteSad/embarrassed may be the strongest bond between the US and the UK in awhile...although I dearly wish that it were otherwise.
DeleteWhile I was reading your excellent working plan for writing out next steps as you wrap up, parking on the downhill slope popped up in my mind, so I was very happy to see you were thinking the same.
How I did:
ReplyDeleteDaily stretching, exercise, 8 hours sleep. MOSTLY: say 5 or 6 out of 7 on all these. One excellent night of nine hours (!) sleep; some rather iffy.
Finish and send article. NO but very close now.
Finish last doc for annual review; some new administrivia, including talk with chair, memo to GD, rec letter. YES, all.
Grade one set of short papers; write syllabus (due dates, mainly) for independent study; update online quizzes. YES, NO, NO.
Open and deal with all the stacked-up mail. YES for some value of "deal": it's all opened and sorted, I deposited a check, have not dealt with tax-related items or solicitations.
New goals:
Daily stretching, exercise, 8 hours sleep.
Finish and send article.
New memo to GD, apply for a thing.
Grade new set of short-ish papers; write syllabus (due dates, mainly) for independent study; update online quizzes.
Finish dealing with all the stacked-up mail.
I have always been a deep and thorough sleeper (although it bothers me that I seem to need more sleep with aging when I was looking forward to getting by with less), so I'm curious how lack of sleep impacts your waking hours.
DeleteThat depends on what type of insomnia---there are several different flavors. The occasional really good night is a revelation: I feel so energetic and cheerful when I'm truly well-rested. If I sleep poorly because of a bad food reaction, in effect I'm poisoned as well as tired and struggle to get through the simplest tasks. If it's garden-variety insomnia, waking up multiple times, or having trouble falling asleep in the first place, or being awake for an extended period during the night, I can usually do things that don't involve deep thought, and may be quite efficient about errands and answering e-mail, but it's hard to concentrate on serious reading or writing.
DeleteToo many projects, too many distractions. Small wonder I forget things. Forgetting is also due to maintaining three or four different planning systems, which I tend to do, and not making sure that what’s on the monthly calendar gets to the weekly. So I missed a meeting last week then forgot a student was coming by today to talk about research. The meeting was no biggie, and I was there to meet the student; just forgot we planned to meet. I’m rather struggling to stay awake, so will post and come back tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteLast week:
1 submit revised conference prospectus: no
2 complete this week’s work for online writing course: yes
3 write a blog post: no
4 finish article review: no
5 finish reading book for review due next week: yes, submitted review
This week:
1 submit revised conference prospectus
2 submit article review
3 write essay for online writing course
4 write 1000 words for OKC
5 keep up with grading
6 watch film for short essay
I also have multiple systems: month-by-month paper calendar, electronic calendar shared with Sir John, do-it-yourself pocket-size Moleskine for daily lists as well as forward planning, and a mini-whiteboard fill-in-the-month that sits in the kitchen. True, sometimes things don't make it from one to another; OTOH, when I lost my paper monthly calendar while traveling in December, it wasn't too hard to reconstruct events thanks to the others.
DeleteStrange "water hack" burns 2lbs overnight
ReplyDeleteMore than 160 thousand women and men are utilizing a simple and secret "water hack" to burn 1-2lbs each night as they sleep.
It's very simple and works every time.
This is how to do it yourself:
1) Grab a drinking glass and fill it up half glass
2) Now learn this crazy hack
so you'll be 1-2lbs skinnier when you wake up!