Good news! You don’t have to wait for New Years Day, your birthday, or even Monday to make resolutions that will move your life in the direction you want it to go.
Your Fresh Start can start right now. Today.
The Ninja Writers Guide to a Fresh The Ultimate Planning Book for a Creative Life lays out a seven-day plan for getting your life in order, figuring out your goals, making an action plan, and setting up the tools you need to make real progress.
A week from now, you’ll have established Seven Super Habits that will free up time for your creative work. Everyday you’ll add in a new habit, and take on simple (but powerful!) exercises that guide you toward a real, workable plan.
This is a guide for helping people prepare for the coming year, while it is primarily aimed at writers there is information that can be used by anyone. I recommend reading through it and choosing which parts of it will fit in with your life, the author states she didn't start with all of the pieces in place but has added them over the years.
Shaunta has a way of breaking down life changing practices into doable bite sized action steps. This is the perfect book for taking a deep look at your overarching writing and life goals and creating a plan to reaching those goals. With quarterly and monthly themes to keep you focused, and achievable weekly and daily baby steps, this book gives inspiration and a legit plan.
After the disaster that was last year, I wanted to read something to open me to this fresh start. The book was written well and the content inspired me to make a list of my goals. I am hopeful that the next year is better.
This book has a lot of great ideas for creative people, especially writers. I have to carefully weigh how much I add to my schedule, however, and some of the author's ideas are not realistic. Well worth reading!