My "New" Approach

A new approach can look a lot of things. It depends on what you need, what your vision is, or how you want to feel. For me, it looks like a google sheet.

Over this last 12-14 months I’ve made some some attempts to get a handle workflows and projects that have now come to life. I started tracking a few things last spring, and was impressed with myself for sticking by the sheet systems, despite the mess it became by the end of the year.

What I decided to do, as always, was lean into my close network. They are awesome to help jog memories of things we’ve chatted about before, but maybe I wasn’t quite ready to dig into. They amazing at sharing ideas, and progress with their use over time. After having a look at some of our emails and texts, I began to do some synthesizing and I came up with what I think  will be a sheet system that I can stick with. 

Here are my two main sheets (with a potential third on the horizon), their tab names, and what’s inside: 

• 2022 Content Planner. 
  
  • Tabs: Months. So far, I am only posting three tabs for quarter one. When I’m ready to plan into March, I’ll create the sheets for quarter two.
    
  • Inside: This is where I am keeping track of all my content for emails sent to subscribers, blog posts, and social media ideas.
    
• 2022 Communications.
  • Tabs: Numbers, Communications x 2, and Conferences. 
  • Inside: The Numbers tabs communicates to me all the numbers and logistics I want to track to look for trends. The Communications tabs are to track specific weekly outreach emails, and the Conferences tab is to track conference proposal submissions and communications received about submissions. 

Setting these simple trackers up and using them right away, every day, has been helping me keep my thinking organized and ideas in one spot. Like any new habit, it’s taking me some practice and patience to stick to the plan, but I know that because I value flexibility in systems, I can always tweak what needs tweaking. Can’t wait to get this all set up in my reMarkable 2…