Each month I like to assess my time on creative projects and progress on specific goals in my work as a creative entrepreneur and author. Posting that self-assessment here helps me stay accountable to my mission. Here is my report for August 2019.
My 2019 Goals
My One Word: Together
Professional Goals:
78% / Double the number of members of The Religion Teacher (December 2017 to present) (+2%)
3,237/5,000 copies sold of Christ in the Classroom (Last Updated January 2019)
194,997/1,000,000 words for kids (A part of my #1millionwordsforkids goal) (+18,573 words)
1/4 new published works of fiction on Amazon.com (+0 published books)
4/7 paid speaking gigs (+0)
Personal Goals:
48/100 books read (+5 books)
14/73 Books: Read the entire Bible from beginning to end. (+2 books read)
61/100 30-minute workouts (+9 workouts)
Incomplete / Play Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” on the harmonica.
How I Spent My Time in August 2019
I track every minute of time I spend working on projects using an app called Toggl (here is why). Here is a list of the top ten projects I spent the most time on last month:
- 16:57 – The Religion Teacher Email & Customer Service
- 7:21 – The Angel Academy: Book One
- 7:05 – Tales of the Ten Commandments
- 6:55 – Daily Review
- 4:46 – Morning Preview
- 4:45 – The Religion Teacher Blog
- 4:27 – Weekly Review
- 4:27 – The Religion Teacher YouTube Videos
- 4:25 – Beatitales Launch
- 2:11 – Parent Prayer Articles
Total Time: 86:41
August 2019 Highlights & Lessons Learned
Tales of the Ten Commandments
As a follow up book to Beatitales, I spent time rewriting and working with an editor to complete the second installment in the Faith Fables series, Tales of the Ten Commandments. I plan to release the book in October 2019.
The Religion Teacher Videos
I love creating whiteboard videos. In August I took some time to work on a few videos about popular Catholic symbols. I’ve been wanting to create these videos for awhile and I was glad to finally have the time:
I also worked on this David and Goliath video, to supplement the David and Goliath Lesson Plan I developed for The Religion Teacher:
Parent Prayers
I searched for and wrote a few prayers/blessings for my kids and thought I might as well share them with others. I posted them to this website and to Instagram:
