{"id":1026,"date":"2006-10-15T15:19:50","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T20:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/15\/its-just-work\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T13:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T18:27:47","slug":"its-just-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/its-just-work\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Just Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tambo has a great post today, featuring an excerpt from C.E. Murphy (motivated by 17 Important Things if You Want to Be A Freelancer), on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Just Work.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I started doing a comment but realized it was going to get lengthy. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my comment:<\/p>\n

This post makes me wonder what \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Dirty Jobs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d guy would get out of shadowing a fiction writer for a few days. Especially after the imagery of the boulder in mud and dog doo comment\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

I spent another hour this week with just me, planning my life. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve downloaded the trial version of Mind Manager Pro 6 and have been using it. I just began using it at work, and found it very intuitive. I have Inspiration, but it hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worked as well for me as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d hoped (Inspiration is significantly<\/em> less expensive, though). I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been doing this since reading Tish\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s post a couple weeks ago about NT. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been meaning to map the plan for my life for a long time, but instead of actually doing it, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been drifting. I kind of know, but keeping it in my head hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worked. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contrary to David Allen<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs Getting Things Done (GTD), which I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been learning to practice for the last year. GTD is not that hard, but it is something you can continually improve upon.<\/p>\n

I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been proud of this writing year. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve struggled throughout the year. I have, I believe, done a few things that have kept me crawling forward. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read widely, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done some revision work, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve jotted new ideas, typed a few thousand new words, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve devised a plan to be better next year . The new ideas have been a pleasant surprise \u00e2\u20ac\u201d new ideas have come slowly in the past. A spigot still hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t turned on, but I have a periodic trickle of ideas. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll begin to flow more easily soon.<\/p>\n

Since I got serious about writing back in 2002, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve known \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Just Work.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still preparing for the full-time aspect of it, currently anticipated to be sometime around 2008. A review of my 2006 Goals, posted January 2nd reveal the following (this is the first I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve looked at them since I posted them):<\/p>\n

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  1. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done well with my personal goals. I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t made much progress getting rid of stuff around the house. My physical fitness hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t improved much because of my knee problems, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m holding my own.<\/li>\n
  2. Writing goals have stalled on the first one, but I have done some agent research. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m prepping for my NaNo novel this week. Even though the NaNo novel will be a true test of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No Plot? No Problem!<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d theory. It is<\/em> geared toward getting me on track for a better writing year in 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m well aware it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just Work.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It will be better. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve chosen to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Tambo has a great post today, featuring an excerpt from C.E. Murphy (motivated by 17 Important Things if You Want to Be A Freelancer), on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Just Work.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I started doing a comment but realized it was going to get lengthy. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my comment: This post makes me wonder what …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16247,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/16247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}