Monthly Focus

I've been looking at a few sites today which has inspired me to think about doing things in monthly blocks.  One of them is The Artist's Way.  This is twelve week course devised by Julia Cameron.  The idea behind this is to discover one's creative potential. Its something I started once but didn't see through to the end.

Barbara Sher recomends time tabling all the fun things we want to do into a year planner.  I might want to take this idea a bit further and timetable in some things that I also 'need to do.'  I am guessing that a month is long enough for any scanner to focus on something if that is all they have to focus on.  The idea is that for a month all my spare time will go on the topic for that month and nothing else.  Its possible that this may not work for me but its an idea that appeals at the moment.

Here are some ideas that I could timetable in:

• My own decluttering and decluttering blog
• My home
• My body
• The Artists Way - this would take up a 12 week period but would include all the creative things that I enjoy
• Relationships
• Helping Others
• Learning the guitar and appreciating music
• My Garden
• Increasing my income
• New Places
• Coaching
• Publishing my ebook

These ideas would take a whole year and a month. As Barbara Sher says is typical of scanners - sometimes they have so much they want to do that they end up doing nothing.  I do a fair amount but always feel I'm not doing eveything that I feel I should be doing or want to be doing and certainly nothing in enough depth.

Concentrated focusing should help me achieve a great deal which is something that makes me very happy.

We shall see.  For the last ten minutes I've been wondering what on earth I would do first and how I could possibly ignore everything else and only do that!