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
No statistics at all this week. I’m dropping Technorati as a metric on this blog, and FeedBurner has been bouncing up and down with incomplete statistics all week long. The numbers are so unrealiable that it’s even hard to figure out it should’ve been. All I’ll say is: they’re moving in the right direction.
I also joined the blogging pack at the Authority Blogger forum. It’s an idea inspired by this post by Michael Martine at Remarkablogger. It actually has evolved into something totally different than Michael meant in his article, but nevertheless it’s an interesting project.
Progress towards goals
I cleaned up the table in this section. So much so that the table is no longer there. It was taking up a lot of space for only two active goals at this time.
Renovation Project
Status:
Overdue, since 02/2008.
Progress this week:
Fairly good progress this week. Painted walls the walls this week (2 coats).
Planning next week:
Installing radiators for heating and making a design for a construction with sliding doors and the windowsill.
Semi Marathon training
Status:
On schedule. Deadline is October 12, 2008.
Progress this week:
I did only one run this week, a short 3 kilometer interval training with an average speed of a little over 11 km/h. I started using MyAsics this week. Not the shoes, but the website. It’s a service provided by Asics, and provides training schedules, logbooks and much more. I’ve set up a training schedule for the semi marathon. Based on my fitness level and four training days a week, my optimum end date is somewhere in August. Enough time to meet the deadline, and there’s room to make up for delays.
Planning next week:
Buying proper running shoes in a shop specialized in running gear. And running according to schedule, 4 times next week.
Productivity Habits – weekly review
Nothing really special to say about this topic at this point. Maybe next week.
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Stephen Erickson
Mon 2008.05.19
Thanks for the My ASCICS tip. I was looking for an online traing tracker. Nice blog too.
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Lodewijk
Mon 2008.05.19
@Stephen Erickson: Your comment was caught by Akismet. Good luck on using My Asics. They have several versions in different languages as well. Using the Dutch version myself.
Mark Dowling
Mon 2008.05.19
Hi Lodewijk,
Been a while since I’ve visited… I have been through a ’simplify’ stage, & simply not accessed my feed reader for weeks.
You’ve reduced your reporting to two goals. I think even that’s one too many. Unlike my multi-tasking wife, I believe that males are genetically programmed to only do one thing at a time (although we do it well
). This thinking is becoming more popular – (for example, Leo’s blog) – & my own experience with trying to juggle many goals at one time, Covey style, have been unspectacular.
Here in the southern hemisphere the days are getting cold (well… 17 deg C air temp, 21 deg C in the surf). Kudos to you for organising heating while (presumably) radiators are on summer special prices.
Thanks for the headsup re Authority Blogger – much appreciated.
regards
Mark
Lodewijk
Mon 2008.05.19
@Mark: Good to see you again Mark! I agree on the one-thing-at-a-time approach, however the two goals I have don’t bite each other.
There are many times throughout the day (and the week) that I can’t work on the renovation project (mostly because the family is asleep or I’m at work). At the times that my family is asleep I can work on another goal, like the marathon goal.
I have had the goal clash with blogging goals and the renovation project. So I dropped the blogging goal. But that doesn’t take away that I still have loads of ambition and am really glad to get passed the 1000 subscriber milestone TODAY