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?
As I copy and past this blog post from the previous one, I can’t help but notice that the above section isn’t quite true anymore. For a couple of months now I haven’t been reviewing every week. Both online and offline, because those are pretty correlated. If I don’t do a review online, I did not do a review.
I’ve got the feeling that this review is gravitating towards a biweekly rhythm. And that would match up quite nicely with my todoodlists, which have a two week focus as well. You know, I’m going to decide right now to make this a biweekly review from now on. Let’s see how that works out.
Blog performance
| Average daily subscribers: | 1143 | ( 13) |
| Average daily visitors: | 357 | ( 80) |
The moleskine captures did well on StumbleUpon. I thought that was pretty enlightening, a regular post would not have done quite as well. I may just use this tactic more often. I like writing in my Moleskine, and if that type of posts appeals to readers and visitors, it’s a win-win situation right?
I know it’s bad for SEO, but I don’t mind. I’m not here for search engines, I’m here for people. And if they find me through social media that’s perfect! And by the way I learned some tricks for SEO and images in SEO School, a hands-on eBook by Naomi Dunford of Ittybiz. She previously took it off the market, but as of today it’s available again.
I already knew quite some things about SEO, but Naomi added quite some marketing knowledge and advice to the book. That part was particularly valuable for me. I haven’t really used it on this blog yet, but I used quite a lot of it for the mini-site for my eBook. It was very valuable in for setting up that site and the book has paid itself back several times already.
If you have a blog or website, and SEO is still a mystery to you, or you could have some hands-on marketing advice, SEO School is the eBook to check out. It’s available for $39, and if you use the links from my blog you’ll split your money evenly between Naomi and me. Thanks a lot if you decide to do that!
Progress towards goals
Again, I haven’t trained as much as I would’ve liked to. Downgrading my goal to 6 kilometer, sensible as it may be, is not helping in keeping my motivation as well. I know I can run the 6 km, as I already did that last week as a training run. All I need to do is keep it up in the two weeks that remain to the event.
After that I’ll have to find another way to keep up with the vitality habits. Vitality is one of my important values. It’s not one of my core values, but more of a prerequisite value. Without vitality a lot of things are just not as fun anymore. But I’m digressing, I need to find another way to keep up the vitality thing. Soon it’ll be too cold for me to run outdoors. No, I’m not a wimp (okay…sometimes I am), but I get asthmatic symptoms if I exercise outdoors at low temperatures. And that ain’t a lot of fun.
On another note, there are several developments in my life right now. Good developments and very exciting as well, but I can’t break the news just yet. Keep following these updates and you’ll know soon enough. I’ll be setting new goals by then as well.
And although it’s not a goal (and as such should not be in this section) I’m still enjoying playing the guitar. My fingers are getting used to pushing the strings, and I’m getting experience in some of the basic chords. Currently I’m practicing on a Spanish guitar, which makes some of the chords really hard because the neck is quite wide. And my hands are not that big… which is frustrating at times. In the guitar store I noticed that regular guitars and electric guitars have a much slimmer neck, so it will get easier once I get my own guitar (I’m borrowing this one from my brother). And I might start guitar lessons in a few weeks.
Productivity Habits - weekly review
Not that much to say in this section. The amount of work is increasing though, both at work and at home. I need to make sure that I don’t fall off the wagon on this one, because it’ll pile up in backlogs in no time.
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