On Sundays I’m looking back on the past week. How did I perform towards my goals? How did my blog do? And how am I keeping up with my productivity habits?
Blog performance
Today, one year ago I published my first blog post on How to be an Original (I updated my about page since that post). So officially How to be an Original is a one-year old now. I’ve learned a lot about myself, about blogging, about goal setting and many more topics in that one year. I’m going to publish a post about that this week. For today, I’m just going to publish my standard weekly review.
| Statistics week 14-2008 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Average RSS subscribers: | 897 | +3 |
| Average daily visitors: | 211 | -25 |
| Technorati Authority: | 161 | -12 |
Progress towards goals
This was mostly a relaxing week, with my birthday, and a family weekend. Pretty good, but on a goal level, this was a lousy week. No progress on all accounts. The next week is definitely going to be more goal oriented.
| Material State | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2nd floor renovated by 02-2007 | Overdue! No progress this week. | |
| Active State | ||
| 2500 subscribers by 12-2007 | Overdue! No change. | |
| Social State | ||
| Be in contact with friends and family 4 days a week | ACCOMPLISHED | |
| Emotional State | ||
| No goal at this time | ||
| Physical State | ||
| Run half a marathon in 10-2008 | No progress again. | |
Productivity Habits - weekly review
No real changes in this area this week. I have been working on getting my day planned and working that plan throughout the day. Sometimes I’m doing a great job, sometimes I suck at it. I do notice that having a deadline helps, it improves my planning. And I noticed that the better the plan, the more likely I am to follow it closely.
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You can be an Original too!
Mark Dowling
Thu 2008.04.10
Hey Lodewijk, just stopping by to say hi, have been busy & also I cut my feeds right back (actually, to zero). I haven’t forgot about yez.
What prompted me was a comment you left on menwithpens.ca. Was this what prompted your recent blog overhaul?
Lodewijk
Thu 2008.04.10
The comment about the feedback I spontaneously got on my blog design you mean? I leave many comments over there
It didn’t inspire me to do the big redesign, that was entirely out of my own hat. I had grown tired of not understanding the theme I was working with and the mess the code was.
It did inspire me to ask around about the color scheme, and ended up changing it to a more neutral color. The green I had turned out to be different, but a bit too hard on the eyes