Are you overwhelmed by your goals from time-to-time? Do you have a difficult time completing your goals in a timely manner? Do you feel overwhelmed because life keeps happening and you end up not following through on your goals?
If you answered any of the above questions with a resounding Yes, you may want to implement micro timelines and micro goals into your writing life. I will tell you all about this in below.
Let’s face it, there’s a lot of uncertainty in life. In times of crisis, uncertainty may feel even more out of control. And all of us seem to hit crises once in a while in our lives. Some of us may be in throes of such a crisis right now.
When this happens, it can be easier to forget about our goals and not concern ourselves with them because its easier to just keep moving from one crisis to another.
If you’re a writer who wants to write, I don’t believe this is a good idea because you will feel guilty for not writing and part of your identity won’t be fulfilled. After a while, you will feel like you are not honouring who you truly are, a writer who writes.
We know that the best way to break out of crisis mode is to feel both safe and happy. This optimistic mindset can be the very thing you need to survive your crises and move past it. It can also help you change focus from always fulfilling everyone’s needs to sometimes taking a time out and fulfilling your own needs.
As writers, we must write because that is what writers do. An important value for most writers is our need to write, urge to write, and itch to write. When we don’t write, what happens to that value of ours? It withers and gets put on a back burner—a part of your soul gets dishonored. Why do we allow ourselves to do that to ourselves repeatedly?
Micro timelines with micro goals allow you to pull yourself out of panic mode and keep putting one foot in front of the other. They allow you to buy yourself some time for the really important decisions without making your situation worse while taking small but meaningful steps to give yourself purpose and promote hope.
Therefore, micro goals are small actions you can take to regain control over the course of your micro timeline while ensuring your core values remain at the centre of the plan. What are your core values? These are things that matter most to you on an emotional and spiritual level. They make up the standard or code by which you live.
Try to not only identify your core values as a writer, but write them down. Seeing the words on a page or screen is an important step to setting micro goals and micro timelines that will work for you.
How does this work for a writer? Well, ask yourself the following questions:
• What are my values as a writer?
• What small, micro goal should I need to do this week to feel like I am moving my goals forward?
• Can I set aside one 15-minute writing time to write?
• When can I promise myself that I will show up to write?
• How will it make me feel to do even a bit of writing daily?
• Will I be fulfilling my inner goals as a writer?
By asking yourself these questions, you will be honoring who you are a writer and you will be getting even small parts of your main writing goal done. What a great feeling!
In February, your challenge is to write for 15-20 minutes a day. If you are struggling to write right now because of a family crisis, or if you are doing a lot of freelance writing for pay and don’t seem to have time to write for yourself, try setting some micro goals for February.
Micro goals are things you can complete within 30 minutes to an hour. You can even break up those goals into 20-minute segment. So, start setting your small goals for February right now.
Just think of how good you will feel by the beginning of March. If you show up regularly to write, you will have completed a lot of micro goals. In a year, you will probably complete a whole manuscript or a big chunk of it.
Think of how good you will feel for honouring who you truly are, a writer who writes and produces manuscripts.
The world needs to read your book. Can you commit 15 to 20 minutes a day to complete some part of your main writing goal and feel fulfilled in the process? I sure hope so!
Never forget, you were born to write. So, be sure to do it every day!
Irene Roth
If you answered any of the above questions with a resounding Yes, you may want to implement micro timelines and micro goals into your writing life. I will tell you all about this in below.
Let’s face it, there’s a lot of uncertainty in life. In times of crisis, uncertainty may feel even more out of control. And all of us seem to hit crises once in a while in our lives. Some of us may be in throes of such a crisis right now.
When this happens, it can be easier to forget about our goals and not concern ourselves with them because its easier to just keep moving from one crisis to another.
If you’re a writer who wants to write, I don’t believe this is a good idea because you will feel guilty for not writing and part of your identity won’t be fulfilled. After a while, you will feel like you are not honouring who you truly are, a writer who writes.
We know that the best way to break out of crisis mode is to feel both safe and happy. This optimistic mindset can be the very thing you need to survive your crises and move past it. It can also help you change focus from always fulfilling everyone’s needs to sometimes taking a time out and fulfilling your own needs.
As writers, we must write because that is what writers do. An important value for most writers is our need to write, urge to write, and itch to write. When we don’t write, what happens to that value of ours? It withers and gets put on a back burner—a part of your soul gets dishonored. Why do we allow ourselves to do that to ourselves repeatedly?
Micro timelines with micro goals allow you to pull yourself out of panic mode and keep putting one foot in front of the other. They allow you to buy yourself some time for the really important decisions without making your situation worse while taking small but meaningful steps to give yourself purpose and promote hope.
Therefore, micro goals are small actions you can take to regain control over the course of your micro timeline while ensuring your core values remain at the centre of the plan. What are your core values? These are things that matter most to you on an emotional and spiritual level. They make up the standard or code by which you live.
Try to not only identify your core values as a writer, but write them down. Seeing the words on a page or screen is an important step to setting micro goals and micro timelines that will work for you.
How does this work for a writer? Well, ask yourself the following questions:
• What are my values as a writer?
• What small, micro goal should I need to do this week to feel like I am moving my goals forward?
• Can I set aside one 15-minute writing time to write?
• When can I promise myself that I will show up to write?
• How will it make me feel to do even a bit of writing daily?
• Will I be fulfilling my inner goals as a writer?
By asking yourself these questions, you will be honoring who you are a writer and you will be getting even small parts of your main writing goal done. What a great feeling!
In February, your challenge is to write for 15-20 minutes a day. If you are struggling to write right now because of a family crisis, or if you are doing a lot of freelance writing for pay and don’t seem to have time to write for yourself, try setting some micro goals for February.
Micro goals are things you can complete within 30 minutes to an hour. You can even break up those goals into 20-minute segment. So, start setting your small goals for February right now.
Just think of how good you will feel by the beginning of March. If you show up regularly to write, you will have completed a lot of micro goals. In a year, you will probably complete a whole manuscript or a big chunk of it.
Think of how good you will feel for honouring who you truly are, a writer who writes and produces manuscripts.
The world needs to read your book. Can you commit 15 to 20 minutes a day to complete some part of your main writing goal and feel fulfilled in the process? I sure hope so!
Never forget, you were born to write. So, be sure to do it every day!
Irene Roth
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