Hello readers,
Happy New Year! I know that not much has changed out our front doors but I know that I have changed inside. I love this time of year, I’m a planner and list maker. My greatest joy is checking a task off my list.
This year I decided to break my year up into quarters holding 3 months each some of you might have heard about A Kanban board is one of the tools that can be used to implement Kanban to manage work at a personal or organizational level.
Kanban boards visually depict work at various stages of a process using cards to represent work items and columns to represent each stage of the process. Cards are moved from left to right to show progress and to help coordinate teams performing the work. A Kanban board may be divided into horizontal "swimlanes" representing different kinds of work or different teams performing the work.
Kanban boards can be used in knowledge work or for manufacturing processes.
Simple boards have columns for "waiting", "in progress" and "completed" or "to-do", "doing", and "done". Complex Kanban boards can be created that subdivide "in progress" work into multiple columns to visualize the flow of work across a whole value stream map.
I am using Trello to keep track of my work and it has been a great tool to keep me from being overwhelmed. Especially when I’m staring down a publishing deadline this first quarter.
Yes, you read that right. My novel Into the Fire the first novel in the Fire series will be published this year. I am very close to being 3/4th of the way through the last and final revision of the novel after looking at the proof copy. I have 8 chapters left to revise and then it is on to formatting for Kindle, Print on demand, and Google Play Books. If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook you can check out my cast vision/mood boards I am @crowshirley on Instagram and on Facebook
I am also taking part in reading challenges.
I set up my Goodreads challenge click the link to set up your own.
I read over 200 last year. I hope you enjoyed the 25 days of bookmas book reviews. I know I loved sharing them with you. If you missed them check them out here
2021 Read Around the World Bingo from the Incessant Bookworm
I am pushing my brain to exercise by learning something new this year.
Every year I try to learn something new to keep my brain young. This year I am studying French, practicing sketching and doodling, and bullet journaling. I have shared some of the pages from my bullet journal on my social media. My roommate got me a subscription to Sketchbox for winning NaNoWriMo last year and I am so enjoying it.
I am offering a chat with me every Wednesday at 5 p.m. CST on my Discord channel if you would like to message me for the channel link.
I would love to hear what your goals and hopes for 2021 are, feel free to commit and share them with me.
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