I’m declaring December 1st, 2008, January First 2009. Stay with me here. I want 2009 to be a blast, an incredible year. And I know that things are going to be difficult, but I still want this to be the best possible year for me. So I’m starting early. I’m not going to have a listless december and watch ANYTHING happen. I’ll take new business, I’ll wrap up outstanding stuff.
I now have a budget that matters–I’ll make my own peak experiences. That will come easily enough–getting through this year. I don’t have an ‘income goal’ per se–I must have money to make my life right, and I’ll simply have it. $43k left to retire my debt is necessary and definitely useful.
You can’t have a life of splendor without intensity, and you can’t have a life of splendor if you permit the cancer of mediocrity to be in any part of your life. I need to focus.
That puts my total income need at…$110k for 2009. I won’t settle for a penny less. But there’s good news: I love what I’m doing. Love it. I don’t get tired. I wake up at 5 with bursts of energy. So, I can do this. IF I make just under $10k/month…I get to live something damn close to DreamLife. (9166.67) to take out of the business. I can do that–that could be 6 blogs a month, which I could certainly do. I know I’ll have income from several sources. Having $9166.67/month to hit EVERYTHING (budget + taxes + debt retirement) is pretty slick. I need to have a WAY better cash position. I guess I need about $25k/cash to play right at this table.
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I know I need to bid, finish and bill on gigs to make this happen, and I’ve covered how to do that before. I just know the number I need to hit.
And in December? I’m going to hit $12,000 net net net to me.
But really, enough money stuff. Money is oxygen. I need it to live, but it’s not the purpose of life. It’s on the hierarchy, but again, who
I’ll track it though…and make some basic things to track money stuf.
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I have 4 planned ebooks in 2008/2009 that I’ve got in various stages:
- The Loan Officer Bailout Plan:
- Working with Realtors
- Working with social media
- Restoring Trust
- The Compleat Sociopath:
- F–ktherapy.Com (drops next week, kids, it’s a title shot)
- white paper: Switching to FreeLance.
1,2 & 3 are for sale. #4 is going to be how I did & am it, free for all.
They are in basecamp, outlined and orgainized (except for #4, that’s my gift to the world…such as it is).
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Additionally, I have to do rewrite Subprime. That’s 92,000 quality words due by 3/15/09. Not as big and nasty as it sounds becaue the bones are pretty good. It reads well, I just need to brighten up the colors.
As the rewrite takes place I need to secure the correct agent. That will take till June 1st, and I’ll make it happen. I know that if my submission merely waits in line, it won’t happen. I also know that I can annoy the hell out of those folks. But, I can take a middle path: I can give value first, & get noticed. Simple. I’m stalking 5 agents. I know what they’ve sold. I know who I want to represent me, and I know what THEY need. And I’m helping. If I have till 3/15/09 to do 92-94k words…then that means that I’ve got to write…94k words in 112 calendar days.
That’s going to be far fewer WORKING days–but still.
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Right now, I’m working to get to 175 # (en route to 159). I have reason to believe that through all my flailing fits and starts I’ll get there this time. Why? Because of where I’ve already been. I’ve lost a ton of weight as it is. And by March 1, 09, I’ll be 175#.
My basic plan is to do about 450 minutes of cardio a week, and do an intense weight training schedule (lifting 5 days/week). Working so far, well enough at least. That goal is truly the most important to me–I could fail everywhere, and if I finish 09 @ 175#, I’ll probably be happy.
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That’s pretty much it. Those are the big goals and dreams that matter to me, so Mark, there you have it. The big dream list.
To get there, I need to create a spreadsheet again. I talked about this once before, recently. I’m paring it down:
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What I’ll Be Tracking:
% of weight lost vs. goal, what pace I should be on, etc. (LBS lost, % to goal). We’re gonna call it a 50# goal, baby…for now. I’ll need to lose more, but we’ll go with 50# in 98 days. That’ll get me friggin’ close. Again: this goal is it. If I don’t recreate my body, it’s a failed year. Really. That’s not overstating it at all, the way I look is a symbol. I don’t have any doubt–none–that this will be the easiest goal this year.
- Weight (will do calculations automatically)
- % to goal
- On pace for
- Should weigh:
- Cardio Minutes Done:
- Workouts Done:
Income earned (actual) % of pace, etc. I’m going to through December’s income in with 2009′s, because I want a head start on the new year. Consequently, I’m going to have till December 1, 09 to get to my goal.
- Contacts Made
- Database Adds
- Bids Outstanding.
- Bids Accepted
- Bids Collected.
- $ Earned.
Subprime Words ReWritten: There is a goal of 95k +/- 5k. The ending and beginning have to be perfected. (Subprime is mostly about men and women–the idiotic way we choose to pair off, simultaneously taking sex too seriously and too frivolously, making it a goal and a curse at the same time. The backdrop is the low rent folks that made up the industry). This will have a goal over a period of time.
- Words Done:
- Today/Total/YTD
This has to grind out next week. HAS to. Cause holy hell has it taken forever.
That drops on December 1, 2009. I want to see if I can make e-junkie populate it so it all works automatically, if not I’ll do it a couple of times a day.
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