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New Year, New Goals: Have You Made a Plan Yet?
Happy New Year, everyone! I am greatly looking forward to what 2015 will bring, and I hope you are too. This is the time for us to think about the year ahead, and how to choose achievable goals. If we want happiness and fulfillment to happen, we have to shape our own futures through hard work, concentrating on what is important to each of us so we can succeed.
One of the smartest things Becca and I started doing a few years ago was to create and follow a yearly business plan. We call it our “Plan on a Page” and keep it on the wall so we can reference it when we need to as we work. Our plan isn’t complicated or difficult to follow…it simply outlines the major goals we want to accomplish for the year, the areas of growth we are going to focus on and approximate deadlines (if they apply). This ensures that each and every day, we are each working toward our goals, rather than getting sidetracked by other projects.
Think about making a plan yourselves this year! First, take some time for reflection. Then, if you like, here’s a link to the template Becca and I use, and some steps showing how to create a plan for yourself.
Speaking of what the year ahead will hold, Becca and I have two books we hope to release on The Setting Thesaurus. The timeline for this was to be Spring, but we are also working on a secret project that may bump our release date. I know, I know…delays are never fun. All I can say is that if we do not make the Spring release window, it will be for a very good reason. One that falls within the EPIC category. Okay, I better shut up about the whole thing now, because it is VERY HARD for Becca and I to stay quiet about this nameless cool thing in the works!
WINNER WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER
In December, we held a contest for a two 25 page critiques, one from Becca, one from myself. I am happy to announce that Audrey King (Contemporary Adult Romance) and Rachel Seo (Upper Mid-grade Adventure) have been chosen by Random.org as our winners. Congrats, ladies! Watch your email boxes for further instructions!
In December we released Emotion Amplifiers, a free ebook companion to The Emotion Thesaurus and we hope you snagged a copy. (If you haven’t yet, make sure you do, as it’s a handy “add on” to ET content.) If you have a copy and you’ve used it a time or three, we hope you’ll consider leaving a review, as they really help us so much!
Image: FlashBuddy @ Pixabay
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