July 1st… RESET!!!
Halfway Through the Year…
Time to take a look at how it went the first six months of the year, and if you are off pace, or not where you wanted or hoped to be. If that is the case, then reset and start fresh for the second half of the year.
I love this halfway point in the year. Sort of a great way to give yourself an extra push.
Keep in mind that doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is not a game plan. If you are in that pattern, now is the time to take a major chance, make a total switch, blow up the old way that wasn’t working.
If you had a tough first half of the year, then basically what you have right now is a chance to take a mulligan and fire up again.
Of course, every year this possible restart date lands flat in the middle of the time of great forgetting, so many won’t even realize they could have started over until August or September, and then, weirdly enough they won’t feel like there is enough time.
For me and my publishing challenge of publishing 75 major books in my 75th year, I have been aiming at this July 1st date. I knew I had to have a certain amount of books done and out, and also be solid with the start of the collections. I am organizing my short fiction into 50 ten story collections and all will be published I hope before November.
So when I checked in with my schedule, I was smack where I hoped to be at this date. Shock, but felt great.
Kris and I extended the summer sale yesterday on my blog for one more week to give everyone a chance to grab a class or challenge that would help them stay focused. Challenges are great in staying motivated.
So if you are like me and have hit your goal for the year so far, celebrate and then get back to work. If you missed, change things up. If something you tried did not work, don’t just try it again. Figure out why it didn’t work and then change it.
Get motivated. There is a great half year of writing and publishing and learning ahead. Study what happened in the last six months, then turn around and face the fresh new six months. If you can do that, you will be very glad you did in January.