Day 25...A Check In & the Art of the Tweak...

Welcome to Day 22...

Happy Thursday.  Let's check in...

My tactic this week was to focus more on writing.  As usual I go big on my goals - maybe too big.  I think somehow there are more than twenty four hours in a day and that I really don't need time to eat or sleep...

That said, I was hoping to have one of the scenes completed by today, but even though that's not the case...I'll keep moving forward...think big but small steps...everyday.

As I said on Monday...my plan is still to put on my running shoes and sprint through it all.  (figuratively of course )

Hope you're slaying some of your goals this week.  Cross them off...mark them as DONE and then do something to celebrate...

	Wk of
	8/18/2014
	Writing	Status	Marketing	Status
1	Complete Scene - Marc losing the fed's tail	In-Progress	Mon - Inspirational FB post	DONE
2	Draft Scene - Elise weighing next steps	DONE	Send out 4 comp books	DONE
3	Complete Scene - Elise weighing next steps	In-Progress	Build Comp Book List - Search & Identify 5 names/addresses to receive comp books
4	Draft Scene - Marc & Elise discuss meeting up to find Donnie & Angie	DONE	Send out 5 blogger review requests	DONE
5			Search & Identify 5 more bloggers	DONE
6			FB - Do Paid Post for Help My Book Cover	DONE
7			Finish H/2 blog
8			Post sales link to Amazon - Be Still My Breath
9			Organize blog post ideas
10			Organize Marketing Ideas	DONE

So this week I had another comp book returned unopened...

Part of the problem is that the recipients don't really know what's in the package - a package which just so happens to be from a stranger.

So it's time to tweak the process...

What I did was create these labels to put on the outside mailer.

Another Sizzling Romance From Author Maggie Collins…

If at first you don't succeed...figure out what went wrong and then figure out a better way to get it done.

BTW...My contest for designing my next book cover is still open...Go to Synchronicity or http://www.maggiecollins.net/ now to vote for the best cover picture!  

And as far as Today's Takeaway Lesson...it's a quote from Albert Einstein. 

“Problems can not be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” 

Here's to Being All In,

Maggie 

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