Hi ladies,
Here are the next few tips to write consistenly this summer.
Tip 3: Prioritize Your Writing Goals
Once you have your list of long and short-term writing goals, it’s time to prioritize these goals. Our writing life is a treasure throve of desires, dreams, and goals we will want to achieve. The burden to achieve every goal we wish can overwhelm us to the point where we get little or no concrete writing done. This is especially the case in the summer when our concentration may be especially scattered because there is so much going on.
Therefore, prioritizing your writing goals is very important because it allows you to identify the most important goals so that you can give them more of your attention, energy, and time. It also allows you to spend more time on the things that will advance the completion of your goals. Further, prioritizing can also help you plan effectively. There is no better feeling for a writer than achieving even one goal by the end of summer.
Here are a few tips to follow to effectively prioritize your writing goals.
1. Look over your goals. Rank them into three categories, urgent, important and unimportant. Give each of them a numerical value from 1 to 3, with one being the most important and 3 being the least important and something that can wait.
2. Assess the value of each. Identify what carries the highest value for you. Identify top propriety tasks and write them down.
3. Order tasks by estimated time and effort. It doesn’t have to be a perfect estimate of time. So, if you don’t complete the goal in the specified time, don’t be hard on yourself. Just schedule more time and keep going.
4. Be flexible and adaptable. Nothing is carved in stone for a writer. Life happens, especially in the summer. You will have to take the occasional unexpected day trip when you should be writing, or you will have to visit family or have a BBQ. These are all unexpected outings can cut into your writing time.
5. Think of achieving one goal at a time. If you work on more than one goal at once, you will feel overwhelmed and your chances of completing the goal is reduced, especially when your writing time is restricted in the summer. This will only frustrate you further and erode your self-confidence.
6. Know when to cut out your goals. Some of your goals may be either redundant or simply unimportant. This is why you should keep regularly reassessing your goals to weed out the unimportant ones.
By taking these steps, you will be getting a lot of writing done in the summer. The more organized you are, the better and more successful you will be.
Prioritizing your writing goals will therefore help you categorize your goals according to their level of importance. This can further help you become more aware of your writing goals and which ones you have completed. The clearer and more aware you are, the more successful you will be, especially in the summer when your concentration is hard to maintain.
Tip 4: Decide How Long You will Write Every Day
One of the best ways to write every day regardless of what else is going on in your life is to decide how many hours you will write during the upcoming week. That way, when the week starts, you will have an idea of how much writing you can do. Generally, the more planning you can do and the more intentions you set to write, the more successful you will be.
This is because when you form an intention to write for a concise amount of time every day or even most days, you will have more of a chance to write than if you didn’t set an intention to write. Creating your intention is the first step in creating your goals. This is because there is a connection between setting an intention and bringing about what you intend.
For instance, you may create an intention to write eight to ten hours a week. This intention should then lead you to write down what you will complete towards achieving your writing goals.
I realize that this may sound a bit awkward at first. Intentions are abstract concepts which are hard to grasp. But there is a lot of psychological and philosophical proof that setting intentions really works. So, at least try it for a few weeks and see if it works for you. I’m pretty sure you will be surprised by the progress you make in getting your butt in your chair and writing.
Like all habits, it can take up to 21 days to form them. So, please be patient and make sure you are as consistent as you can be. Take some time out on Sunday to set your intentions. It shouldn’t take more than a few minutes of your time. Just be sure to write down your intentions. Unless you do, you may forget them. But more than that, writing down your intention can also help reinforce the intention in your mind.
Try it!
Irene Roth
Here are the next few tips to write consistenly this summer.
Tip 3: Prioritize Your Writing Goals
Once you have your list of long and short-term writing goals, it’s time to prioritize these goals. Our writing life is a treasure throve of desires, dreams, and goals we will want to achieve. The burden to achieve every goal we wish can overwhelm us to the point where we get little or no concrete writing done. This is especially the case in the summer when our concentration may be especially scattered because there is so much going on.
Therefore, prioritizing your writing goals is very important because it allows you to identify the most important goals so that you can give them more of your attention, energy, and time. It also allows you to spend more time on the things that will advance the completion of your goals. Further, prioritizing can also help you plan effectively. There is no better feeling for a writer than achieving even one goal by the end of summer.
Here are a few tips to follow to effectively prioritize your writing goals.
1. Look over your goals. Rank them into three categories, urgent, important and unimportant. Give each of them a numerical value from 1 to 3, with one being the most important and 3 being the least important and something that can wait.
2. Assess the value of each. Identify what carries the highest value for you. Identify top propriety tasks and write them down.
3. Order tasks by estimated time and effort. It doesn’t have to be a perfect estimate of time. So, if you don’t complete the goal in the specified time, don’t be hard on yourself. Just schedule more time and keep going.
4. Be flexible and adaptable. Nothing is carved in stone for a writer. Life happens, especially in the summer. You will have to take the occasional unexpected day trip when you should be writing, or you will have to visit family or have a BBQ. These are all unexpected outings can cut into your writing time.
5. Think of achieving one goal at a time. If you work on more than one goal at once, you will feel overwhelmed and your chances of completing the goal is reduced, especially when your writing time is restricted in the summer. This will only frustrate you further and erode your self-confidence.
6. Know when to cut out your goals. Some of your goals may be either redundant or simply unimportant. This is why you should keep regularly reassessing your goals to weed out the unimportant ones.
By taking these steps, you will be getting a lot of writing done in the summer. The more organized you are, the better and more successful you will be.
Prioritizing your writing goals will therefore help you categorize your goals according to their level of importance. This can further help you become more aware of your writing goals and which ones you have completed. The clearer and more aware you are, the more successful you will be, especially in the summer when your concentration is hard to maintain.
Tip 4: Decide How Long You will Write Every Day
One of the best ways to write every day regardless of what else is going on in your life is to decide how many hours you will write during the upcoming week. That way, when the week starts, you will have an idea of how much writing you can do. Generally, the more planning you can do and the more intentions you set to write, the more successful you will be.
This is because when you form an intention to write for a concise amount of time every day or even most days, you will have more of a chance to write than if you didn’t set an intention to write. Creating your intention is the first step in creating your goals. This is because there is a connection between setting an intention and bringing about what you intend.
For instance, you may create an intention to write eight to ten hours a week. This intention should then lead you to write down what you will complete towards achieving your writing goals.
I realize that this may sound a bit awkward at first. Intentions are abstract concepts which are hard to grasp. But there is a lot of psychological and philosophical proof that setting intentions really works. So, at least try it for a few weeks and see if it works for you. I’m pretty sure you will be surprised by the progress you make in getting your butt in your chair and writing.
Like all habits, it can take up to 21 days to form them. So, please be patient and make sure you are as consistent as you can be. Take some time out on Sunday to set your intentions. It shouldn’t take more than a few minutes of your time. Just be sure to write down your intentions. Unless you do, you may forget them. But more than that, writing down your intention can also help reinforce the intention in your mind.
Try it!
Irene Roth
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