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- January 25, 2025
Groundhog Day Resolutions Mastermind Group for 2025
January 25, 2025Read moreThis year I’m going to run another experimental group with people who want to do Groundhog Day Resolutions with me and other committed folks! For a refresher, Groundhog Day Resolutions (aka GHDR) is a yearly planning ritual with an easy-to-remember schedule. It starts on February 2nd and ends on December 12. There’s a few things I like about this:
Accounts for Busy Holiday Season – Traditional New Year Resolutions were inconveniently-timed; who is ready to make big year decisions on January 1st? Not me! I need at least a month to close-out the year and recover from the holiday season. I use January 1 to start thinking about the year to come. Likewise, the period ends
Ease of Knowing When to Review – Using the “double day” MONTH/DAY monthly pattern made it easier to remember when to reflect on my goals, as regular reflection is necessary to keep on-track with any long-term goal.
Ease of Synchronizing with Others – As a bonus, having an easy-to-remember system for review days makes it possible collaborate with others who also want to make a commitment to self-improvement or other goals for the year. We are stronger together!
The last time we did this was all the way back in 2016 using (I think) the sunsetted Google+ service. I’m going to do it again this year by hosting it in two places:
On my Medium account as a publication-based group for general where I’ll post my own GHDR posts to help seed discussion. The advantage of using Medium is relative ease of posting comments and of course discoverability.
In the DS|CAFE Community Discord in the new
#ghdr-mastermindforum for more day-to-day interaction and encouragement. Joining information
It’s been 18 years of Groundhog Day Resolutions for me, and I think I have a better handle on what it’s actually been good for: commitment to finding my personal truths . As a result, I know myself much better and why I have so much difficulty achieving my goals. While my insights are specific to me, I think there are common elements that might be resonant with others who need to find meaning and fulfillment in their work to feel motivated. This is a topic I hope to explore further with everyone.
More Information
To get ready for this group, I’ve updated several pages on digital garden website at dsriseah.com:
A summary of the starting concerns for every Groundhog Day Resolutions kickoff post from 2007 to 2024. This has been useful for seeing the overall patterns of my GHDR ritual, and it may be inspiring.
» Index of All GHDR PostsA more holistic description of GHDR and its philosophy. Originally, GHDR was more of a ritual designed to just help me remember when to do a monthly review, but enough time has passed for me to see is deeper values (for me, anyway).
» What is Groundhog Day Resolutions?Updates to Come!
I’ll report more on the setup of the various support areas. We already have a few verbal commitments in the Community Forum for participation, so I’m excited to see how this plays out!
0 - October 25, 2024
Nanowrimo 2024 Word Counting Calendar Update
October 25, 2024Read more
I’ve updated the Word Counting Progress Calendar. It’s a functional visual progress counter for National Novel Writing Month participants who like to fill-in graphs to pace themselves.
How It Works
- Fill-in the approximate amount of words you are writing every day to get a sense of your pacing.
- Record your daily word counts and fill-in the number of boxes for each day (each box represents 250 words).
- As time goes on you can see the filled-in blocks turn into a progress graph.
- Summarize your weekly word totals and get a sense if you’re on-track to hit your 50,000 word goal!
Download below!
You might want to bookmark the official word counting calendar page, which is updated every year to reflect the current calendar around this time every year.
Enjoy!
- March 7, 2024
Romanian translation of ETP Posted
March 7, 2024Read moreThanks to Alex Vornicu for providing a Romanian translation of The Emergent Task Planner! It takes about an hour to do each one, and I was lucky to have a bit of extra energy today to push it out.
- October 30, 2023
Nanowrimo 2023 Word Counting Calendar Update
October 30, 2023Read more
For 2023 I’ve updated the Word Counting Progress Calendar. It’s a functional visual progress counter for Nanowrimo participants who like to fill in progress graphs to pace themselves.
- Fill-in the approximate amount of words you are writing every day to get a sense of your pacing.
- Record your daily word counts and fill-in the number of boxes for each day (each box represents 250 words).
- As time goes on you can see the filled-in blocks turn into a progress graph.
- Summarize your weekly word totals and get a sense if you’re on-track to hit your 50,000 word goal!
For 2023 there are six color variations::
You might want to bookmark the official word counting calendar page, which is updated every year to reflect the current calendar around this time every year.
Enjoy!
Thanks to Jess for pointing out that 2017 was the same for 2023, saving me oodles of time!
- February 21, 2023
Announcement: Removing FeedPress and Newsletter Support
February 21, 2023Read moreI’ve been using FeedPress for years, but the service itself seems to be running on life support while also increasing in price. I’d rather put that money into a service that is more creator-focused, maybe SubStack or something like that.
If you have an email subscription to this blog, it will be going away. The RSS feed will continue to work, but will not have the fancy formatting it used to have. Should I replace the email newsletter functionality with something else, I’ll post on Twitter (assuming it is still around), Mastodon, and on this site.
