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Brandiwyn🎶Prep starts 10/1! Author Icon, also known as Michelle Tuesday, is a musician, educator and writer hailing from Columbus, Ohio.
La Bene Vita
I am a professional musician  Open in new Window., worship leader  Open in new Window., small business owner  Open in new Window., songwriter  Open in new Window., aspiring author  Open in new Window. and freelance nonfiction writer  Open in new Window. with a chemical engineering degree  Open in new Window..

But that's just my resume.

My profile of qualifications is only one of the ways in which I am unique. Here I chronicle my personal and professional goals and my efforts to achieve them. Occasionally I fail. Mostly, I take daily baby steps toward all my long-term goals. Much like the stories I pen, the songs I compose, and the businesses I run, I am always a work in progress.

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For your hard work, commitment, talent and innovation in running the October NaNoWriMo Preparation each year, which helps many of us get our scattered thoughts together for November's novel-writing. And also because this badge has ducks on it.


November 14, 2009 at 9:02am
November 14, 2009 at 9:02am
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I am going to be SO BUSY this weekend. *Frown*

Launch one new Potbelly song per week.
*Check*Goal met.

Post at WordPress at least once per month.
Pending.

Launch one new Praise Band song per month.
*Check*Goal met.

Write one new original song per month.
*Check*Goal met. I set "Invalid ItemOpen in new Window. to music during a busy lunch rush at Potbelly yesterday, because my $*#(@+ manager had my volume way down again. I figured, what the hell? Why not write a song. So I did. I planned ahead by having recent lyrics typed up and printed, for just such an emergency. *Thumbsup*

Write new lyrics once per day through November.
Fail.

Earn at least $60 per pay period at Textbroker.
In progress. *Thumbsup*
Current Balance: $10, with $7.70 pending.

Earn at least $25 per month at Helium.
In progress. *Thumbsup*
Current Balance: $7.50

Resign from Abbott by 6/1/10.
In progress.

Achieve a weight of 145.0 by Thanksgiving.
Trying-ish.

Weight: I may add this later, if I weigh.

Meals:
8:30am Fiber frosted miniwheats (3) with milk (1)
9:00am Coffee (1)

Current real estate goal: Organize garage.
*Check*In progress. I got rid of the old hamster cage, dug through the Christmas stuff for initial inventory, and swept the leaves out of the garage.

Read a book in print for fifteen minutes every day.
*Check*Goal met. Good book.

Business Brainstorm.
*Check*Goal met. Okay, that's not an actual goal! I just had one, and it targets next summer. I have a list of related intermediate goals, and I may post them one by one just to keep them in front of me.


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