Thursday already! Time just goes too fast!
I have been busy making tracking aids for my CHALLENGE... and trying to get my record-keeping "flow" to go smoothly. It hasn't been achieved yet. :-)
This year I am using a "Back to School" composition book to keep my daily notes. I seem to forget or I am too tired by the end of the day. I have mostly recorded "notes" the next day or longer. This is something that seems to be slow to change. I use to keep track on my recycled scratch paper and then just staple each day and then store them with my monthly receipts and other records... in a zip-loc bag! At the end of the year everything went into a cardboard box. -- I am finding plastic storage boxes to keep my records in for long-term. I like the "gasket" boxes. (I am using those for my project supplies, too.)
New this year is finally organizing some of my recycled 3-ring notebooks as ongoing record options. I have one for my monthly letters I write to friends and family. It has taken awhile to get to the notebook format. It was just easier to stack them as I wrote them. Now I can actually look at the last letter I wrote to an individual person, if I want to. -- I sorted my stack for last year and that was part of the extra motivation. I also needed a notebook big enough. I had to change all my notebook contents around to get to there.
I wanted to have one small notebook for current tracking, but that keeps getting too full. I have one for all of 2020, but that is going to be too small. -- This means I have to keep my eyes looking for just the right size of 3-ring binders to change to.
It is beginning to take shape.
Changing habits is always a blurry process. You keep going back to what you use to do, remember you aren't going to do that anymore, and then work at doing the new thing you want to do. This is true for all the changes in our lives, good and bad. Repetition creates a habit. What we repeat becomes what we do without thinking.
I have read different ideas on how long it takes to change a habit, and the 12-week one seems the most realistic... even then we can slip back into the old ways. I guess after three months of really working on it, you have your mind focusing on the new pathway.
My design issues are in limbo right now. I am going to create separate designs to use for different ongoing actions I need to post about.
I am getting my keywords organized.
I have been going through my email accounts, my computer files, my online sites, to see what needs to be changed. I don't think January will be long enough, but I am thinking all of the "habit changing" might need until March. The race is on to beat that deadline. What would "beating the deadline" look like? I don't know. I will have to think about that.
Finding people to sign up is what I am trying to figure out. I know my computer has problems, and my internet access... I often think my work is useless under all these "persecutions" -- but -- I also keep going for myself. It is amazing the things you learn in these circumstances. It will help me to build a better future for myself and the Body of Christ.
Did I share that I received my logo mug! :-) Sooooooo wonderful!
I'm going to be adding t-shirt designs to my selling sites and want to order one for myself... at least one, for now. I am not sure which one I will end up with. Keep checking my stores. I mostly focus on Etsy right now, then I will add my listings to Ebay.
It will be a lot more fun to post small updates (like photos of what I am doing "right now") when I figure out the process. I entered a post for my Facebook "Story" recently. I was staring at the photo of my "Every abortion is one too many." t-shirt and decided to share what the details meant. I don't really know what the purpose of the separate space is, but I am learning.
I think I need to activate my smartphone and get that learning process going. :-) -- It's all about the funds... how to fit the new bills into the budget. Sales would help that process, but there seems to be a problem reaching Christians as my buyers. Pray that GOD will bless me so I can move forward.
I guess I better get back to my work.
Until next post,
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
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