One of my new features on the blog this year will be a series of articles on various tools and tips I find helpful as I navigate my roles of author, writer–yes, I make a distinction between these two occasionally, this being one of those times– , amateur photographer, and several other roles not listed. 🙂

I thought it would be helpful to others to share some of the tools and tips I use to stay focused, on task, and accomplishing my goals.

For now, I will focus on planning/time management and Scrivener.  I may pepper in additional tools and tips I stumble across, but I will focus on these two areas this year as they are the most important two avenues I use to navigate this thing called “My 2016 Goals”.

So, first up will be an intro post on art of planning and planning systems, which will come next Tuesday.  I’ve been using a planner to accomplish my professional goals since 1999.  This year, I decided to use two planners to help guide me through my professional career goals, my author goals, and keep my personal life on track.  And being the lovely, yet neurotic, anal retentive perfectionist that I am, trust me when I say it’s been fun trying to make my new dual planner system work.

Check back next Tuesday when I’ll share the results of my first week on my new planner system.  As a treat, I’ll leave you with a quick look at my initial layout for the first week in January.  Yeah, a little bit of the dark side of the Force was needed to get me through this first week of the new year.  😀