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This week I did my Review in the morning today, and now I am sharing my progress to improve my accountability toward my February Goals, this is the report for Week 9:

• I am maintaining the GTD Scoring in the Book of Days for the month of February to continue my progress towards GTD Mastery. I have been 5 for 7 in keeping my GTD journal scoring, this Sparkline shows the progress this past week - . Not a good week, with 5 scores below 4. This is due to massive amounts of traveling for the new marketing job and having to renegiate personal commitments. Goal unmet.
• #37 - I have no unsorted papers anywhere besides my physical in-box, project files, and reference files. After I purchased some more hanging file folders and manila folders in order to create a home for these papers, this was much easier to accomplish. Goal Met.
• #54 - I have coached 3 people in successfully implementing GTD into their lives. Again, not this week. I am still working on recruiting and hiring some marketers that I can coach, but I have also been networking with some other “Organizing Experts” and perhaps this is a goal I can meet in March. Goal unmet.
• I was able to clear my in-box to empty 3 out of 7 days. Goal unmet.
• I have postponed the next e-book and e-course until I have sorted out my new daily schedule. The new due date is 23 March.
• Average subscriber count was 685 (+2 over last week), with a high of 707 on Monday! Thank you so much for your support. Click here to subscribe now, and get the free e-book!
• Save $$$ toward two personal financial goals - in progress- 82% and 0%.
• Complete Squidoo lenses on 3 5 topics. Still no progress, the count remains one down, four to go. Goal unmet.
• The new productivity tools for the HD BizBlog Shop have been put on hold, once again until I sort out my new daily schedule. Howver I do have a new sponsor/affiliate program. See the top right sidebar for Ariane Benefits Guide to Organizing!

Be sure to tune in on Monday for another big post on the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. This will be part four of the series. [part one is here]

The Difficulty Identified

The February Goals were determined back in January, when my work/life situation were very different from today. On 11 Feb I took a full-time job that took me right out of my comfort zone and into new territory (literally). This job is going to involve quite a bit of local travel (50 to 250 miles of driving per day). Obviously this takes me away from the computer quite a bit.

I have also taken on some freelance Virtual Assistant work, and I have been helping my wife with some of her work projects. February was a very busy month!

I had set some pretty ambitious goals for February, based on a model of being able to write for 6 to 10 hours a day. This has changed, and I have had to re-negotiate my commitments to myself in order to avoid stress. Later today I will incorporate these re-assigned goals into the new plan for March.

The new March goals will reflect the new realities of my schedule and the newly added commitments. I will post the March goals soon, after I complete the planning and prep for the Quarterly Review at the end of this month. For more information on Project Planning, see this page. Save $5.00 this week when ordering by using the code “marchspecial“.

Work on the 7 Habits series is continuing, and I am looking forward to compiling the Personal Mission Statements that have been coming in. There is still time to submit your own mission statements, send an e-mail to stephen [at] hdbizblog [dot] com.

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