100 Day Writing Challenge – Anna’s Day 8

Hi. I got busy writing and reviewing my tasks and forgot to write something for you about how I am doing.

My goals I made during the first week are mostly monetary. I need to make money writing and offering my services from home. I feel that this is the best way for me to go. It is also helpful to give myself a push to apply for work online.

I haven’t been sure how to apply for work online. I purchased one of Angela’s e-books “Your Just-In-Time Cash Machine: Sell Your Services Online In Seven Days.” This was an excellent book and it gave me goals and tasks to help me get started on applying for work online.

However, I have some difficulties with self-confidence so I need a little more help in a step by step, how do I apply online for work. What do I need in a proposal? What do I put in my profile? What do I put in the portfolio? What do I do when I get a job? (Screaming oh no! is not helpful.) What do I do after the job is finished? Should I do some follow up?

On my website, helpingwomenstayhome.com, I am putting together articles that will help women to re-enter the workforce or will help them stay home doing cottage industries, freelancing or home businesses. I want to give them benefit of what I have been learning over the last year. So this is where I am planning to put this article on how to apply for a job online.

Beyond applying for work, I also have been working on tasks. I already use a task list regularly since I was laid off last year. It helps me organize all the different things I need to get done in the different areas of my life. I use rememberthemilk.com. My brother just told my mom about evernote.com and that looks very easy to use. It might even be better than remember the milk but I’m already organized there so I will stay with it for now.

On remember the milk I have a list of tasks for different areas, such as, one list for every website that I am maintaining, a list for studying tasks, a list for work tasks, and a list for personal tasks that I do on a regular basis but need a nudge to get done. I’ve connected this site to my Gmail account so that I can mark them complete when I finished them or postpone when I’m not going to get to them.

Every few days, or once a week, I usually review my tasks and change some, drop some, and reorganize them so that I don’t feel overwhelmed with what I have to do that day.

When the temperature reached 107 at my house yesterday, I had to let go of some of my tasks. It was just too hot. Especially when the main fan quit working and I only had the one secondary fan. I guess I should mention that we live in an area of normally moderate temperatures and I don’t have air conditioning.

Even with that going on, I had one goal in mind for yesterday. That was to finish editing my fifth book of devotionals taken from my blog entries over the last 4 years. And I did accomplish that.

So this week, I am looking forward to finishing a template for filling out proposals, applying for several jobs, and winning one job.