Short and Sweet #7
By
Annette Dammer
Nagging - not just for
moms anymore! I often read of a good tip, publishing opportunity,
or have a deadline I want to meet. I sometimes email them to myself, with
the deadline in the SUBJECT line.
Great, so far. Right?
But I am,
by nature, a forgetful creature. So I have begun to email myself through a
calendar. Most computers have popup calendars. For me, as I
already have a free YAHOO! account, I use their calendar. It, too, is
free and has become an invaluable tool to me.
Here's an example. I had a
proposal to write for my agent. I didn t have time for two weeks, so
I calendared it for then. I asked the calendar to email me everyday
with reminders. A daily repeat.
Then life hit. Then the holidays.
Then family stuff. Exams, on and on and on and I continued to put off my
important project... Polite and busy with other things, my agent never
bugged me. He encouraged me with, "Keep on writing," but never
pushed...
So, who IS gonna nag me? Me, of course. After all,
this is
my goal. This is what I want. I just don t want to actually sit down and do
it!
So each day, there it was. An email with WRITE PROPOSAL in the
subject line. Finally, I felt guilty enough to write the thing. And you
know what, it
wasn't even that hard. I still have final rewrites to do -
and my calendar continues to nag, uh, I mean, remind me!
Who knows why
I put off writing the important things... Who cares?! As long as I have a
tool to stop doing that and start getting God s work done.
Right on
time! Write! Right?
Copyright
2003 Annette Dammer
publisher@teenlight.org
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