Before you forget, I’m sending out the free printable for newsletter subscribers on Wednesday morning. If you’re not yet a subscriber, please sign up now (and invite two friends to do the same) – this is the Christmas Planner and it will help you get your thoughts in order. I’m also going to be sending it out as a thank-you gift with every purchase from the store from today til the end of the year.

This freebie is in addition to the Time Management Purpose Pack, the current welcome to my list gift. Current = since 2010/ 2011

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Ah, this is my favourite time of the month because I get to talk about goals!

I took this photo while on a photowalk with Connor

Let’s have a quick review of October goals:

• My main business goal was to complete the series, 31 days of Enough Time, and I did it. I’m incredibly pleased that it got done, and I’m even more pleased with the quality of the content. I’m busy putting it into an e-book so that it’s all neatly packaged together, and then I’ll think about what to do with it. Thoughts?

1. I also wanted to get some planning done, which I did –
   1. to get the editorial calendar done for November, and to
   2. map out the freebies for the rest of the year.

Done and done 🙂

However, something that did not go well – I decided to close down the Live Organised Community. I’m going to put my thoughts together and do a separate blog post on that decision, the failure, etc. 🙁

On the personal side… I got these things done

• Danced in a Spanish festival
• Booked our annual photoshoot
• Took two photo walks
• Took gorgeous photos of the jacarandas
• Read only non-fiction during October. I tried this last year for about a week and a bit… just so I could hear God better and it worked. This year I thought to up the ante, and it certainly worked but it was a push at the end. After reading 5 non-fiction books on the trot (check my Goodreads —-> right on the top of the sidebar for reviews), I am CRAVING a fiction read and I have a big stack of library books waiting to dig into tomorrow 🙂 Also, I’ve now finished 68 of my 70 books for the year. So I’ll have hit that goal by mid-November.
• Booked a holiday (not on the list but a good spur-of-the-moment decision)

As for November, I have a few goals on my list:

1. Write 12 blog posts (this is going to seem so easy :))
2. Continue to share my favourite time management and organising books
3. Write the post on why I closed the Live Organised Community
4. Create the freebies for Nov and Dec, and decide what to do to kick off 2015 in style. Yes.
5. Hit Gold on our Medical Aid rewards programme so we keep our Diamond status
6. Have a great photoshoot and then a quick whip around the area for personal “weird” pics
7. Decide when to write industry exams
8. Read 5 fiction and finish the one non-fiction that’s been on my bedside table for months 😮
9. Read 30 chapters of the Bible
10. Work out 8 times

Care to share with me what went well and what didn’t for October?

And what are your top 3 goals for November?