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My March accountability and Life Clips video
April 8, 2019

I’m going to start this post off a little differently to Januarys and Februarys posts on accountability, just to change things up.

It’s also becoming an interesting month as I may get got to the end of it still pregnant, I wrote about how to relax when overdue. 


March 

  • No spend = 6 Days 
  • Shopping list items bought: 3
  • Unplanned buys: 4
  • Spontaneous buys: 1
  • Purchase regrets: 2 
  • Unexpected bills paid: 3 

This month I have:


Written two posts a week! I’m still ahead of myself on my planner.

Finished one drawing in progress and shared on Instagram. 

I’ve stuck to no-low spending and will share purchase buys the first three months of the year in another post. 

I bought new pens and paints and have been playing in my journals. I have well and truly RESTED! Mainly through watching feel good movies which I am set to write about too. Also less list writing.

Read two books on childbirth, both by the fabulous Ina May.


This month I haven’t:


Written any pitches or articles. I feel it’s right to do so at the moment as I don’t have enough focus to write as I’d like. 


April goals:


I will be a Mom, people say pregnancy is easy, then comes labour, then comes parenting! I want to try and keep this blog as a space for writing about lifestyle and creativity. I like parent blogs but I don’t want to become one, tricky though as I enjoy writing my own experiences.


To do a short blog course, I’m already doing a free email one though I may explore another. 

I’ve made the leap to Audio Boom and I may get on better podcasting on this platform. Only time and experience will tell.


Take 15-30 minutes to myself for self care.


Double the no spend days. 

Do more sketch book stuff or any creativity more than I series watch. I’ve gone through After Life, Mother hood, many many movies and now I’m on Catastophe.


Art journal and share on Instagram and here, what once was the norm has become out of my comfort zone. Just do it my creative being cries!

In my last post, I mentioned I had been playing around with video out of inspiration or boredom and I’ve finished Life Clips! 


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Let’s get accountable! Check-in 2 Jan-Feb 19
January 31, 2019

In January I wrote a list of what I was doing that month to stay accountable to progress, plans and achieve what I set out to do. I’m carrying it on with a monthly check in! If you would like to team up as accountability buddies, contact me.

FROM JANUARYS PLAN I….

  • I’m at the end of a brilliant writing course. So far I have written one article I’m happy with and two I’m working on. It’s given me valuable incite to how magazine writing works. The style of writing on here will change a bit, some articles and others personal like this one!
  • I have finally finished the planning pages in Leonie Dawson’s yearly workbooks.
  • I put up vision board (cork board) and instead of cramming it with small pictures of roles I have or what I want to do – mother, painter, writer, yoga teacher and go on mini travels. I have put up small-A4 photography that stood out to me from magazines. So far a forest, flip flops on dusty ground, a camper van and an illustration of someone walking around a neighbourhood. I’m putting up pictures of things that call to me, that ignite a feeling.
  • I’ve changed my mind on doing a hypnobirthing course, instead I’m reading Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin. So many beautiful natural birthing tales from women in caravans, on a farm.
  • I’m still thinking about doing a daily project but no decisions yet. There’s a lot of work that goes into them behind the scenes (I’ve tried and failed) and I don’t yet have a theme. Except maybe 40 days before and 40 days in motherhood? Though I will have to start soon as I feel baby is coming early! So far I’m finishing things off my things-to-get-done-before-baby-comes list.
  • I have set up creative spaces in bedroom for writing and downstairs for painting. I carry a basket with handles holding supplies in between places. I feel a bit like red riding hood.
New creative space for drawing, painting, yoga class planning

PLAN FOR FABULOUS FEBRUARY

  • Do ALL car renewals and changes, starting with insurance
  • Paint bedroom and put in new furniture
  • Mini projects to complete – glue gun found items onto manquein, make painted purses and put up to sell.
  • Publish two posts a week here on the blog
  • Put out a pitch twice a month
  • Make mornings for writing stories
  • Plan a yoga course with a theme
  • Do 2-4 podcasts
  • Play in creative room more, away from writing in room.
  • Listen to body, take rest breaks, surrender to how I feel. Use them to read, watch videos and podcasts.
Writing desk where I write like nobody cares!


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