Week of March 11 + Monthly March goals

Weekly Goals March 11 week -

• 52 weeks item: art sales compile opps
• chore lists complete 
• finish 2 woods  
• post 25 things online (ebay, amazon, etc) !!! 
•  training (PHP, Joomla, routers, networking, VPN's)
•  computer general reading  
• finish one book (or 1/2 a big one) !!!
• sub one wtg   Lung Meridian to Sun
• view next deadline  personal essay to these ppl https://www.freedomwithwriting.com/freedom/uncategorized/get-paid-to-write-personal-essays-for-buzzfeed/ (women's thing: https://www.bitchmedia.org/writers-guidelines or SCUM;;Ocean = https://www.authorspublish.com/scum-now-seeking-submissions/ SCUM - also https://www.100daysinappalachia.com/2017/01/18/100-days-appalachia-call-pitches/)
• go to one event/party   Biltmore, music
• meet one new person (convo)   Flow Gallery
• family mtg helped J wih stuff

Monthly goals March -  

• clean/clear one area (take to Goodwill, massive clean, throw out trash - can be living room, office, back office, bedroom, etc back room
• send MA newsletter -  
• Azule newsletter  grant
• finish one piece well of music
• review emails and populate pub calendar and upcoming deadlines
• host an event/party (even if just casual/few ppl)  

Weekend

stuff I want to this weekend:

- Gratitude (by Sunday)\ finished, just need final edit/send (AFTER MONDAY 2/11/19)
- another look-through

- new thing to sub/write/send
- just for fun: betrayal thing
-** write/sub a 1000k or less thing http://threepennyreview.com/online_submissions/ $400 per short story ; before the end of June; under 4,000 words DO SUBWAY THING
https://apublicspacedemo.submittable.com/submit/5248/fiction
https://therushmag.submittable.com/submit
http://www.workerswritejournal.com/ - Subway thing later in year after rejected elsewhere
http://upstreet-mag.org/guidelines/ - maybe subway thing? DEADLINE MARCH
http://contrarymagazine.com/submissions/ $20, short, DEADLINE MARCH
https://thesunmagazine.submittable.com/submit/41131/sun-submissions - subway thing?
https://www.newyorker.com/about/contact (because why TF not)
* https://narratively.submittable.com/submit Many good; like Azule Photo Essay, random memoir, etc
- find sub for next week ($ thing? Masters Review)
- regroup; see if on schedule/write schedule somewhere

- MA Newsletter (52 weeks task)
- regroup emails
- add emails off lists, paper
 - send sthg (poll)
- review tutorial
- add photos to MA of new art, etc
- write Laurel guy
- write tobacco lady

- Job things
- Job FB posts for week (incl recent vids)
- write past rez
- clean up mailchimp (NOT MERGE LIST however)
- deal with Duarte thing

- housekeeping

sales

my task for today was to streamline online sales

all goes thru

Amazon

Ebay

Etsy (in future because fees)


Amazon
books
CD's

Ebay
random crap
poss tarot readings
art (?? not convinced re this)

Etsy
art
tarot

Amazon:

Goal: sell as many books as possible
use funds to pay off CC
after that, use funds to save $
1. Google spreadsheet to track sales
2. Send M a list of stuff sold, added up, by end of month (create calendar reminder)
3. place all books/CD's listed in strategic location (rearranging some bookshelves)
4. amount listed: I'd started out saying '5 a week' but it was so easy to do it that now am thinking 5 a day, but I'm not consistent in my daily tasks, so
5. test CD's/ DVD's before listing
6. do the tax thingie

Ebay:

Goal: liquidate junk, old tech, doodads, etc
some funds for my spending $, some funds for project above (diff accounts)
after that, eliminate what is unsold

1. put all stuff in one place already done, mostly; a lot of it is elsewhere in the house so for now just concentrating on what's already organized in back room
2. photo same as above
3. find/organize photos of stuff that was taken already last time I was doing this- tried this; found nothing so

1. find/upload pics off iPhone 
2. ditto iPad
3. put all in folder

4. create a document that lists them (can be ongoing process)
5. list 5 a week (defo only 5 a week because this is more bothersome than listing on Amazon)
6. relist all items 3 times and what does not sell, dump
7. after all in that room accounted for, hunt rest of house and start over

BONUS: at one pt create a tarot listing, see if anything happens with that

Etsy:

Goal: online venue for art
make extra $ for all above goals
TBD; either after cc is paid off or more $ in some way because fees; would like $ to be made re above before doing this
also after back to selling properly again

1. check if free listings still exist
2. photo all art
3. write all art on document (this & above also useful in general)
4. create tarot listing; 3 or more
5. painting project???

52 things in 52 weeks (off popclogs site)

just a mental exercise, really

i have zero faith i can pull this off for the simple reason that i feel i can't rely on external reality remaining the same for me to allow for such a list. IE as far as I know we'll have to move again in 2 months, 4, etc. Also fact J is planning a 2nd surgery this year sometime, and just other stuff that always seems to throw monkeys in wrenches or however you say that

but I decided to go ahead and do this anyway as a mental exercise of 'what would happen if I COULD make these things come true?' and i realized that the bad crap that's bogging us down re our physical space would be resolved by late July. That would be frigging awesome. So it was good to at least see it spelled out like that.

the other problem, allowing for the suspension of disbelief enough that we CAN stay put enough to accomplish these things, is I have is to prioritize which should go in one week. All things seem either URGENT NOW or meh.... whenever, so hard to put a timer on it

already finished one today so yay! ahead of the game

1. clean, unclutter, reorganize front porch so it looks somewhat less ghetto
2. really organize and sort thru paperwork, find it a new home and put the important ones in a rational, searchable place (medic and inheritance ones)
3. get real system for selling the stuff online going (including where to store)
4. finish really old box of receipts (or did I already do that???? if so, freebie :D)
5. reinvigorate various art promo newsletters etc campaigns for our wood art (including plan for making it sustainable) - what's needed here is a tutorial on best way to mailchimp


(feb 3) - NOTE: contingent on if J decides to Part 2 re hip surgery at this or another time
6. eliminate kitchen pests part 1 (mice) FEB 3
7. go thru clothes conveyances in bedroom, clean out, eliminate stuff, etc FEB 10
8. eliminate kitchen pests BUY THE SHIT!!!  FEB17
9.  serious clean/declutter my desk area (including better usage for storage and eliminate or fix nonworking printer)  FEB 24


(march 3) NOTE: online sales going throughout
10. serious clean/declutter kitchen desk area (possibly eliminate? Have only one desk area WOULD be desirable)
11. come up with credible list of new art selling prospects (venues, galleries, fairs, etc)
12. EVALUATION: how things have gone, how things look going fwd (including how life has gone or liable to go) by know I will know if in fact the rest of year is doable
13. actually contact the motherfuckers re item 11
14. scour art media and credible list of who to contact (press)

(apr 7) - NOTE: Poss begin art market at this time and other sale ventures
15. contact above folks (emails, press releases, etc) - also with the one bloke
16. finally print promo materials Vistaprint or somesuch
17. clean art shed Part 1
18. plan sthg credible for J b-day

(may 5) NOTE: poss have one or a couple yard sales
19. some sort of J birthday greeting
20. follow up as needed items 13 and 15
21. credible J birthday experience
22. clean art shed Part 2

(june 2) NOTE: supposedly have been having $ to pay off cc by now
23. semi aggressive sale push for remaining stuff
24. cull stuff from in house (toss, give away, organise, etc PART 1 (bedrooms, living room)
25. cull stuff from in house (toss, give away, organise, etc PART 2 (kitchen, JH area)
26. cull stuff from in house (toss, give away, organise, etc PART 3 porch, outbuilding)
27. go thru boxes of papers in screened area PART 1

(july 7)
28. go thru boxes of papers in screened area PART 2
29. get rid of ALL THE CRAP that was not eliminated online or otherwise
30. revisit long-dead Patreon thing (hopefully grounds have been made already for something like a relaunch)
31. revisit and rephoto 93 paintings thing; see if any need touching up, fixing, etc

(aug 4) NOTE: by now supposed to be saving $ in other account
32. some sort of nephew birthday greeting
33. begin remarketing/reintroducing 93 paintings thing
34. send postcard to last few patrons of 93 paintings (hilariously late)
35. some sort of bro birthday greeting

(sept 1)
36. find or plan xmas/bday gifts
37. whatever wasn't finished in boxes of paper, or fix art shed, or culling, or any other in-house declutter processes (or touch up)
38. ibid. Part 2
39. begin a computery study PART 1
40. follow up various art comm things (34, 20)

(oct 6)
41. computery study PART 2
42. some sort of mum birthday greeting
43. computery study PART 3
44. computery study PART 4

(nov 3)
45. real estate study PART 1 (weird idea)
46. some sort of niece birthday greeting
47. real estate study PART 2
48. plan sthg credible for my b-day

(dec 1)
49. finish whatever gifts
50. send xmas cards!!!!!
51. do sthg credible re my b-day
52. big evaluation re year
Saturnalia: Dec 29 - 31: do whatever the hell

Organizing PRocess

1. Submittable - has deadlines and ways to save drafts and submit https://www.submittable.com/

2. most recent draft is this doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kRk6owxK4ikNu-rE7tqA-9JzmZC5_pVpfvTufAjgovw/edit

3. this old spreadsheet has old resources, opps, contact info, etc https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fgxbTws-yAUkMRNvDEfMRIaloVp2IBrOLyzZFcj7obE/edit#gid=6

4. google calendar is supposedly going to send updates etc https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r/month/2019/6/1?tab=mc

5.  https://www.authorspublish.com/40-literary-journals-that-pay/ LIT JOURNALS THAT PAY! useful to harvest

6. https://www.freedomwithwriting.com/freedom/uncategorized/36-magazines-blogs-that-pay-writers-1000-per-article/ BLOGS ETC THAT PAY! useful to harvest

General Dump - to do

hoping today but hard to obligations of a quasi social nature -

fb/cl post sale ads
vacuum
demo steamer
violin
80s octo
write 80s update email
write bro
look at livescription & answer
ID 4 more to sub
sub (online if available, in post otherwise)
TF questions
clean kitchen
blog quilt (other comp)
video dwld (other comp)


general

solve problem
learn joomla
find salvation army for stuff
aff mktg 1 hr/day
weekly sub
violin ongoing - Bach for actual performance
DL sundays
$ update 1x/wk
create systems
optimize space
eliminate extra
sell repurposed nightstands

more later