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?

A couple of days late, but here’s last Sunday’s weekly review.

Blog performance

Average daily subscribers:	1072	( 11)
Average daily visitors:	187	( 3)

Not a lot of changes in these numbers. In the past I often heard that getting subscribers and visitors will grow steadily over time. And I share that observation, but if you really want to grow faster you need to put in a lot of work. Sure there are some bloggers that work to grow readership, and suddenly find themselves “discovered” and get massive attention. I’m not waiting around for that to happen, I’ll just start working again to increase these numbers.

One of the things I did was buy Naomi’s book SEO School (I’ll be a ninja soon!). SEO means Search Engine Optimization, and currently I’m halfway through the book. I’m going to change some things on my blog (mostly in the background) and that should result in an increased growth in visitors from search engines (read Google).

Progress towards goals

I’ve worked my ass off in the past week to get the renovation project towards completion, and it’s really almost done. I have about 2 hours of painting to do, which will be done this week. And then it’s waiting for the carpeting to be done (August 22nd). Then I can move stuff in, and the project is done!

Sure there are the odd jobs to do to get it to 100% completion, but when the furniture is in the office is ready for use and that was the way I described the goal. And it sure feels great to be so close! Can’t wait to be done and strike it off the list!

Renovation Project
Status:
Overdue, since 02/2008.
Progress this week:
Very strong progress again. The central heating was a hell of a job, and gladly my dad helped my out. It sure is a job for two men, way too big to be done alone.
Planning next week:
Paint for two hours. Clean up the room.

Semi Marathon training
Status:
On hold, no longer on schedule. Deadline is October 12, 2008.
Progress this week:
Nothing.
Planning next week:
One 3km run. And finally buy the right shoes.

Productivity Habits - weekly review

You’ve read about my new system with Todoodlist and Zen to Done. It’s a lot of fun working with that system, but ultimately the best productivity habit is to finish stuff. And I’ve been doing that a lot lately.

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?

Six Weeks. I told you last week it would be six weeks between my last and next weekly review. So here it is:

Blog performance

Average daily subscribers:	1061	( 13)
Average daily visitors:	190	( 31)

These stats are compared to the stats from six weeks ago. And for six weeks of virtually no new content, that’s not too bad in my opinion. Thanks for sticking around people! New free content is coming. It may still be not as much as you were used to, because I’m still working on finishing the renovation project. But that’s really coming to a successful finish this month, after which I have seriously simplified my life. The amount of topics in need of my attention will have dropped tremendously by then.

Progress towards goals

Interestingly, there was no goal for writing an e-book. Yet I finished that in the past six weeks. I guess some things are hard to plan. I did not plan to write an e-book, yet the time to write it was right. And it was too powerful a feeling to let it pass unfulfilled.

I had major progress on the renovation project. But as I already told you last week, I cut down on all other activitities that weren’t contributing to either the renovation or the e-book. So there’s no progress on the marathon goal, which makes it increasingly challenging (but not impossible!).

Renovation Project
Status:
Overdue, since 02/2008.
Progress this week:
Very strong progress. Currently working on the last big project: installing/modifying the central heating. That’s a job I’m quite inexperienced in, so it takes longer than the other jobs. And even though I planned and spent a whole day preparing it and getting all the material, I came short in supply after all.
Planning next week:
Finish heating system. Paint, sand, paint.

Semi Marathon training
Status:
On hold, no longer on schedule. Deadline is October 12, 2008.
Progress this week:
Nothing.
Planning next week:
Nothing.

Productivity Habits - weekly review

In my spare time I’m reading the e-book Todoodlist (will review it this week) and re-reading Zen To Done. I’m still on a paper system, and the ideas in Todoodlist are very much aligned with a paper attitude. And Zen To Done simply is a great book with many valuable ideas, many of which I haven’t adopted yet.

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

Average daily subscribers:	1074	( 3)
Average daily visitors:	221	( 13)

Still working on other stuff besides blogging. I have been writing a lot last week, because I started to write an e-book. It’s about discovering your personal core values, and it’s progressing very rapidly. I guess the time was right, because most parts of the book have already formed in my head.

My activity online reduced to virtually zero because of the other activities and the e-book. I have even taken a break from Twitter to focus on the other projects. Next week won’t be different, so this is most likely the only post I’ll write this week.

Progress towards goals

Good progress on the renovation. No progress on the marathon goal.

Renovation Project
Status:
Overdue, since 02/2008.
Progress this week:
Good progress. Windowsill is nearly ready, needs a coat of paint before I can really finish the construction. Did a lot of small jobs that made a lot of (visual) progress.
Planning next week:
Painting. Finishing windowsill and sliding doors.

Semi Marathon training
Status:
On hold, but still on schedule. Deadline is October 12, 2008.
Progress this week:
I planned to do a 4k run, but I did not run this week (again).
Planning next week:
Do at least one 4k run.

Productivity Habits - weekly review

No news.

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

Average daily subscribers:	1077	( 1)
Average daily visitors:	208	( 2)

No real changes on the stats front. I haven’t been very active last week, as far as blogging for this blog was concerned. I’ve put my effort in other activities that will eventually lead to more time for blogging. You’ll notice it in posting frequency when that pays off.

Progress towards goals

I started with the renovation project again, and the elbow is feeling okay again. Finally some progress again. It’s kind of frustrating to not be able to work on something you really would like to finish.

Renovation Project
Status:
Overdue, since 02/2008.
Progress this week:
Finally some progress again, it’s really time to get this job DONE.
Planning next week:
Finish windowsill, sanding

Semi Marathon training
Status:
On hold, but still on schedule. Deadline is October 12, 2008.
Progress this week:
I did not run this week.
Planning next week:
Do at least one 4k run.

Productivity Habits - weekly review

I’m finding it increasingly hard to write something useful in this section. I’m quite satisfied with most of my productivity habits. I’ve worked through my backlogs and I have conquered the email monster. There’s still room to simplify more, but like I said I’m generally satisfied.

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?

The elbow is getting better and better, hardly any pain left. I still need to rest it, although it feels like I can do anything again. Better be safe and give it another week before I start doing serious stuff again.

Blog performance

Average daily subscribers:	1076	( 14)
Average daily visitors:	210	( 16)

I updated the design of the stats last week. I like the green arrows

Progress towards goals

No progress again this week, due to elbow injury.

Renovation Project
Status:
Overdue, since 02/2008.
Progress this week:
No progress. Arm needs rest.
Planning next week:
Resting my arm, making sure it gets well.

Semi Marathon training
Status:
On hold, but still on schedule. Deadline is October 12, 2008.
Progress this week:
I did not run this week.
Planning next week:
Resting my arm, making sure it gets well.

Productivity Habits - weekly review

One thing I could do this week was typing, and working on site design. I worked on both aspects on both my blogs from home. Most of the times when writing or designing I need to be able to get my mind to concentrate on the task at hand. But this week I got interrupted too many times. Very inefficient!

I’ll be glad if the office is ready (my renovation project) and I’ll be able to close the door and get those hours of undisturbed concentration. Come on, elbow. Heal!