What You Got Done AND Will Get Done
Make a list of all you DID get done last year. Think back carefully, if you didn’t make lists to check off, you have only your memory to rely on. Maybe you’ll have to ask some family members or friends what they recall. You might be surprised at how productive you were.
Now make a sensible list of all the things you’d like to work on this year, and what time of the day or week you will work at them. Write it down, or make charts and tables. Pin them up where you will see them often.
You’ll be amazed.
By the way, are you wondering what I got done in 2005? 
Okay.
1. I got about half-way finished writing a new novel
2. I compiled three e-books for myself, and 1 for a friend
3. I produced a children’s book for my nieces’ kids to teach them Low German
4. I checked out RSS feeds and changed my two ezines to become blogs, and added two more
5. I practiced at writing good sales pages
6. Some of my affiliate links paid off with commissions
7. I switched completely from a Windows 98 operating system to Mandrake and then to SuSE (both Linux)
(that involved a far larger learning curve than I’d anticipated!)
8. I researched eBay selling
9. I built a web site for a missionary friend, so they could earn cash on the side
10. I got about 1/3 of my 500+ page web site on my novel renovated.
11. I also renovated about half of another mission web site I am in charge of
12. I produced a short-run of a genealogy book in print and as an e-book over Christmas while not feeling well
13. I worked as the Resource Room Librarian in Sunday School on Sunday mornings,
14. And I took Dad on three different weekend holiday trips!
What do you think? Planning works, doesn’t it?
